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name: Arcade
domain: arcade.dev
kind: product
relation: integration
segment: online payment acceptance
descGrounded: 0.81
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# Arcade

A runtime for production AI agents that handles authorization, tool reliability, and governance so agents can take actions on behalf of real users.

**Route:** surfaced by the online payment acceptance lane's de-branded queries → integration to stripe.com.

**Why it's on the map:** Arcade sits between an AI agent and downstream systems like Stripe, handling auth and tool execution; an agent using Arcade could call Stripe's APIs, and Stripe could be one of the systems Arcade connects to, but neither requires the other.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> The runtime between your agents and every system they need to reach.

> Auth, tools, and governance in one layer.

> Your agents act as real users with dynamic permissions.
