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What are AI Tools?

OwnPay provides a suite of AI-powered development tools that let you build production-ready plugins, integrations, and custom gateways using AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. Instead of reading through dozens of documentation pages to understand interfaces and conventions, your AI agent reads the docs for you and generates correct code on the first attempt. The AI Tools ecosystem has two main components:

MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server that gives your AI assistant live access to all OwnPay documentation at query time. Every question reads real docs - not stale training data. Supports Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code (Cline/Roo Code), and Windsurf.

AI Skills

Pre-built instruction files that teach your AI assistant the OwnPay architecture, plugin system, coding conventions, and interface contracts before you ask it anything. Install once, and every subsequent prompt benefits from that context.
Use both MCP and Skills together for the best results. Skills teach the AI what OwnPay is and how to think about it. MCP lets it look up exact method signatures, hook names, and configuration details on demand.

Quickstart

Get up and running with AI-assisted OwnPay development in three steps:

Why use AI with OwnPay?

Faster development

Generate a complete gateway adapter with all required methods in seconds. What used to take hours of reading docs and writing boilerplate now takes a single prompt.

Fewer errors

The MCP server feeds your AI the exact interface signatures, hook names, and return types. No more guessing at method signatures or missing required methods.

Consistent conventions

Skills enforce OwnPay coding standards automatically - PSR-12 style, BCMath for money, no dangerous function calls, proper CSP nonce handling.

All plugin types

Generate gateways, addons, themes, and integrations. Each template covers the full plugin lifecycle: manifest, registration, hooks, and settings UI.

Live documentation

MCP queries run against the latest docs. When OwnPay adds a new hook or changes an interface, your AI already knows about it.

Works with your tools

Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT, VS Code (Cline/Roo Code), and Windsurf - use whichever AI assistant you already prefer.

AI prompt templates

These collapsible prompts are pre-built instructions you can paste into Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor to generate complete, working plugins. Fill in the bracketed placeholders with your specific details before sending.
Copy and paste this into your AI assistant:
Copy and paste this into your AI assistant:
Copy and paste this into your AI assistant:
Copy and paste this into your AI assistant:

Supported AI tools

Cursor

Add the MCP server in Settings > Features > MCP. Agent mode calls it automatically.

Claude Desktop & Claude Code

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or run claude mcp add.

VS Code (Cline / Roo Code)

Add the MCP server URL in your extension MCP settings.

Windsurf

Add to ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json.
Last modified on August 27, 2026