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title: "Step 1: verify the platform country is valid"
type: skill
id: "stripe-skills/stripe-integration/connect-required-verification-information"
category: "Finance"
publisher: "Stripe"
license: "MIT"
source: "https://github.com/stripe/ai/tree/7882018"
canonical: "https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/connect-required-verification-information"
open_in_pho: "https://pho.chat/customize?item=stripe-skills%2Fstripe-integration%2Fconnect-required-verification-information&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library"
---

# Step 1: verify the platform country is valid

Use this skill when the user asks what information a Stripe Connect connected account must provide for verification, onboarding, KYC, or account requirements; when they need to compare requirements between connected-account setups; or when they ask which verification fields, documents, or business details are required for a particular platform country, account country, business type, dashboard, service agreement, or capability.

Source: Stripe (MIT), copied at a pinned commit. Free to use. Part of the Phở Skills library (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills).
Skill set: Stripe integration (https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration.md).

## What it covers
- Instructions
  - Interaction contract
  - Hard rules
  - Dependency chain
  - Inputs you eventually need
  - Resolve capabilities
  - Agent flow
  - curl examples
  - Read the API responses
  - Construct the result
  - How to respond to users

## Other skills in this set
- [Stripe best practices](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/stripe-best-practices.md): Guides Stripe integration decisions across development and test environment planning (separate sandboxes vs the shared test mode sandbox), API selection (Checkout Sessions vs PaymentIntents)…
- [Connect recommend](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/connect-recommend.md): Use this skill when the user asks about Stripe Connect configuration, charge patterns, Dashboard access, or how to get started with Connect, is building a marketplace, platform, multi-vendor store…
- [Stripe apps](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/stripe-apps.md): Build, modify, or review Stripe Apps and extensions using the relevant documentation and reference guides. Use for custom Stripe Dashboard UI, stripe-app.yaml, @stripe/ui-extension-sdk…
- [Metronome](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/metronome.md): Guides Metronome usage-based billing integration decisions — event ingestion (single and batch, idempotency, billable metrics), contract design (rate cards, overrides, dimensional pricing…
- [Upgrading Stripe Versions](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/upgrade-stripe.md): Guide for upgrading Stripe API versions, webhook endpoints, server-side SDKs, Stripe.js, and mobile SDKs
- [By resource name](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/stripe-docs.md): Use when the user or agent needs to read, search, or look up Stripe documentation or API reference. Prefer this over curl or WebFetch for any docs.stripe.com content. Use to fetch gated documentation.
- [Stripe directory](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/stripe-directory.md): Identifies external providers, merchants, nonprofits, platforms, APIs, and software services, and resolves the documented way to engage them — to pay, donate, subscribe, book, provision, or…
- [Stripe projects](https://labs.pho.chat/en/skills/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/stripe-projects.md): Use when the user wants to provision infrastructure or third-party services using Stripe Projects. Triggers: "I need a database", "set up auth", "add caching", "give me a Postgres", "provision…

## Use it
- In Phở: open https://pho.chat/customize?item=stripe-skills%2Fstripe-integration%2Fconnect-required-verification-information&utm_source=labs&utm_medium=skill-page&utm_campaign=skills-library and press Try, or add it so Phở loads it whenever a request matches. Phở works with your own API key (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others).
- Full instructions (original SKILL.md, unchanged): https://labs.pho.chat/skills/raw/stripe-skills/stripe-integration/skills/connect-required-verification-information/SKILL.md
- Original files: https://github.com/stripe/ai/tree/7882018 (MIT).
- Full machine-readable index: https://labs.pho.chat/skills.json