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Braintree Braintree

Braintree

Charge, authorize, capture, refund, void and reverse Braintree payments, vault and delete payment methods, manage customers, and search transactions through the Braintree GraphQL API.

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About

Braintree ships in the w6w first-party pack. It declares 20 actions, 3 health checks, and the host runs its code in a sandbox that never sees the credential.

App id
io.w6w.braintree
Version
0.1.1
Author
w6w
Licence
MIT
Categories
Commerce & Payments · Finance & Accounting

Overview

Braintree is PayPal’s payment gateway. This app drives its GraphQL API: it charges or authorizes a vaulted or single-use payment method, captures an authorization in full or in part, and voids, refunds or reverses a transaction (reverse picks void or refund depending on settlement).

It also vaults and deletes payment methods, creates, reads, updates, deletes and searches customers, searches transactions by status, date, amount, order and customer, mints client tokens for the browser SDKs, and converts legacy REST/SDK ids to GraphQL ids.

One connection targets either the sandbox or the production environment and sends the API key as HTTP Basic. Health checks verify the credential and whether the GraphQL endpoint is answering.

Build with Braintree

Three routes to the same 20 actions. The Workflow tab is generated from Braintree's own manifest and carries its real ids, so it is copy-pasteable; the Code and CLI examples are the same call for any action on any app, so every app-specific value in them is a blank you fill in.

Create Client Token

client-token-create

Mint a client token for the Braintree browser or mobile SDK. It is a credential for the client: do not log or store it.

Create Customer

customer-create

Create a customer record in the vault. Every field is optional.

Delete Customer

customer-delete

Delete a customer and the payment methods stored under them.

Get Customer

customer-get

Fetch a customer by GraphQL ID, including up to 50 stored payment methods.

Search Customers

customer-search

Find customers by ID, email, name, company, phone or creation time (exact match), one page at a time.

Update Customer

customer-update

Update a customer's contact details or custom fields. Unset fields are left as they are.

Convert Legacy IDs

id-from-legacy

Convert legacy ids (Control Panel, SDK, webhooks) of one type to the GraphQL ids every other action expects. Existence is not checked, except for payment methods.

Delete Payment Method

payment-method-delete

Remove a payment method from the vault. It can no longer be charged.

Get Payment Method

payment-method-get

Fetch a payment method by GraphQL ID: usage, owning customer and masked card, PayPal, Venmo or bank details.

Vault Payment Method

payment-method-vault

Store a single-use payment method (a client-SDK nonce) in the vault so it can be charged repeatedly. Verification runs by default for types that support it.

Ping

ping

Check that the connection's credentials are accepted. Braintree answers `pong`.

Authorize Payment Method

transaction-authorize

Authorize (hold) funds on a vaulted payment method or single-use nonce without settling; capture the transaction later.

Capture Transaction

transaction-capture

Submit an authorized transaction for settlement, for its full amount or a lower one.

Charge Payment Method

transaction-charge

Charge a vaulted payment method or single-use nonce: authorizes and submits for settlement in one step.

Get Transaction

transaction-get

Fetch one transaction by GraphQL ID with its processor response, status history and refunds.

Partially Capture Transaction

transaction-partial-capture

Capture part of an authorization as a new child capture transaction; repeat until the final capture.

Refund Transaction

transaction-refund

Refund a settled transaction in full or in part. The refund is a new object linked to the original.

Reverse Transaction

transaction-reverse

Undo a transaction in full whatever its settlement state: voids it if unsettled, refunds the full amount if settled.

Search Transactions

transaction-search

Search transactions by status, creation time, order ID, customer, merchant account and amount, one page at a time.

Void Transaction

transaction-void

Cancel an authorized or settling transaction before it settles. Fails once it has settled; use Reverse or Refund then.

A workflow step names the app and the action, and the editor fills in the connection when you pick one. This is the Step shape from the workflow spec, carrying Braintree's real ids.

{
  "manifestVersion": "2",
  "name": "braintree-example",
  "steps": [
    {
      "id": "customer-get",
      "uses": {
        "app": "io.w6w.braintree",
        "action": "customer-get",
        "connection": "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID"
      },
      "with": {
        "customerId": "<customerId>"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Here are some of the things you can do

  • Get Customer

    read
    customer-get
  • Create Client Token

    perform
    client-token-create
  • Create Customer

    perform
    customer-create
  • Search Customers

    search
    customer-search
  • Update Customer

    perform
    customer-update

+15 more actions available

Every app-specific value here is a blank you have to fill in. An app action is reached through the connection that authenticates it, so the address is a connection id, not the app id — and connections belong to your account, so a public page cannot know yours. Create one for Braintree, then fill in the three blanks: conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID, the action key, and the parameters that action declares. The call itself is real — the shape is transcribed from the studio's own snippet builder, which prints the same kind of blanks — but nothing in it is specific to Braintree. The Workflow tab is where this app's real ids are.

Install
npm install @w6w/sdk
yarn add @w6w/sdk
pnpm add @w6w/sdk
deno add npm:@w6w/sdk
Code
import { W6wClient, isActionRun } from "@w6w/sdk";

// Reads W6W_BASE_URL and W6W_TOKEN from the environment when omitted.
const client = new W6wClient();

const envelope = await client.run({
  urn: "conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID",
  action: "customer-get",
  payload: {
    customerId: "<value>",
  },
});

if (isActionRun(envelope)) console.log(envelope.value);
Install the CLI
npm install -g @w6w/cli
CLI
w6w run conn_YOUR_CONNECTION_ID --action customer-get --payload '{"customerId":"<value>"}'

Give an AI agent Braintree — without giving it Braintree's credentials. One MCP endpoint exposes every app, function and workflow the caller is entitled to, as tools it can discover and run. Access is granted per team while we onboard.

One tool call
{
  "name": "w6w_invoke",
  "arguments": {
    "ref": "app:io.w6w.braintree#customer-get",
    "input": {
      "customerId": "<customerId>"
    }
  }
}

Every tool names its target with a single ref. The app: form above doesn't name a connection at all — the host resolves which of the caller's Braintree connections to sign with, and refuses rather than guesses when the answer is ambiguous.

What the agent gets

Credentials it can't read

The token is attached host-side, at the moment of the call. It is never a tool argument, never in the model's context, and never in a transcript — so a prompt injection has nothing to exfiltrate.

A tool surface scoped to the caller

Tools are derived per end user from what that person has actually connected and is entitled to — not one shared bot identity carrying the union of everyone's access.

A durable workflow in one call

Multi-step work runs on the workflow engine and returns a run handle the agent can poll — retries, branching and state survive the conversation that started them.

Health-aware discovery

Braintree's declared health checks are on the surface too, so an agent can tell "the vendor is down" from "your credential expired" before it burns a retry on either.

The MCP surface is part of the hosted platform. Braintree itself is MIT, and the runtime that executes it is source-available (FSL).

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Health checks

Braintree declares its own checks, so its health is a property of the app rather than something the host guesses at.

service

Braintree platform status

dependency

GraphQL API reachable

Unauthenticated `query { ping }` against this connection's environment. Braintree's documented AUTHENTICATION error is the expected healthy answer; credential validity is the `auth:api-keys` check's job.

quota

API rate-limit headroom