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The easiest and most valuable open source contribution nobody talks isn't the biggest feature!
Most people think contributing means fixing a hard bug or shipping a fancy new feature. It doesn't have to be.
Try this on any repo:
1. Click Insights
2. Click Community Standards
3. GitHub gives you a checklist of what a healthy project is still missing.
Every unchecked box is a contribution the maintainers already want.
paypal/AI-Toolkit, a new Claude Code plugin for PayPal's APIs, has 4 open right now.
1. Pick one
2. Check for existing Issue, if not create one
3. Ask for it to be assigned to you
4. Open a PR
Now you're a contributor to a PayPal repo today!
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Have you seen 3 tracks on a single stage before? 🤯
The PayPal Developer team had a great experience at the Odoo event in Brussels last week.
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PayPal Developer retweeted
awesome photos what a great looking event
and the pass ribbons 🤩 lets goo Paypal 🙌
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Marco Podien from the PayPal Developer team is at @Odoo Experience conference in Brussels this week 🇧🇪
45k+ people, 400+ talks, and live concerts in the evening. Not your usual dev event.
Building on Odoo and taking payments? Come find us at the PayPal booth and tell us what's slowing you down.
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PayPal Developer retweeted
We are planning an exciting collab with our team at @paypaldev and with the awesome @JamesSwintonDev and @SylwiaVargas from @ag_grid for the tech community 🥳
Watch this space, more news and giving aways soon 🤑
... #hackathon 🤫
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The biggest myth about hackathons: you need to be a senior to enter.
You don't.
It used to be that half of the room was learning the stack that weekend, and the other half was googling the same error. Now we are all just using AI to build.
Nobody is checking your years of experience. They are looking at the thing you built.
The "plumbing" is not the hard part anymore. Payments, auth, hosting, a few lines of SDK and you are back to the idea, which is the only bit anyone remembers at the demo.
The bar is "build one small thing".
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The PayPal developer community is live on Discord 🥳
Whether you're integrating PayPal Checkout, building on Braintree, exploring our APIs, or just getting started, this is your space to ask questions, connect with other developers, and hear directly from the PayPal team.
Join here: discord.com/invite/sJ2G6DyvS…
What you will find inside...
- dev-questions: Post the error and the code, get a human answer.
- what-i-built: For work in progress, not just finished launches.
- introductions: Tell us your stack and what you are working on.
- pet-pictures: Every good developer community has one.
See you there!
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An AI agent filled the cart and took itself to checkout.
Then PayPal stopped it and asked for human approval.
@debs_obrien and @eddiejaoude ran it live. Here is what happened.
1. Debbie spoke to an agent.
2. The agent compared products, found the right sizes, added to the cart, and opened the checkout on its own machine.
3. At the payment step the agent stopped.
4. PayPal pushes the request to Debbie's phone. She approves it. No card details typed anywhere.
That is the part that makes agentic commerce safe to actually use.
Here is a teaser, full YouTube video link below 👇
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Our own Dev Advocate @eddiejaoude was on @WeAreDevs live stream talking about the PayPal's Open Source AI Toolkit project 🥳
Follow WeAreDevs to watch the clips and videos as they come out.
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Shopping in 2026...
@debs_obrien shows @eddiejaoude how:
1. user: photo of a tracksuit
2. agent: searches
3. agent: finds item online shop, puts two in the cart
4. agent: goes to checkout
5. user: pays with PayPal
Agentic Commerce is here!
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PayPal Sandbox: $5,000 Of Fake Money In 60 Seconds
PayPal's sandbox hands every developer a fake buyer and a fake seller (merchant), each preloaded with USD 5,000. Nobody tells you the balance is editable, so you can set it to any number you need to test.
Full flow:
1. Developer dashboard, toggle top left set to Sandbox.
2. Left nav, Testing Tools, then Sandbox Accounts .
3. Create account. Personal is your buyer, Business is your merchant.
4. Set Country to the market you are actually building for.
5. Make one of each. A seller with nobody to buy from tests nothing.
6. Find your row, click the three dots under Settings, then View/Edit account.
7. Login Info holds the email and password. Click the eye to reveal it.
8. Log in to the PayPal Sandbox.
Your Client ID and secret come from the Business account, under REST API apps, then Create App. The Personal account has no such section, which is what trips most people up.
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Would you let AI agents pay for you?
@debs_obrien has done this with @bot and @paypal. Our Dev Advocate @eddiejaoude will be asking her all about this in an upcoming video.
Subscribe to the "PayPal Developer" YouTube channel not to miss out.
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PayPal Developer retweeted
This is awesome, agentic commerce 🥳
@debs_obrien has set this all up and pays with @paypaldev
"i use PayPal for it and the bot hands me over its computer and i click pay and then 2 factor thing on my phone so its pretty cool"
I am planning a collab with Debbie, what would you like to see and learn more about?
💰💰Done. My chief of staff @bot just purchased from amazon and it was so smooth. 👀🚀
I typed in one of the items the boys need for school in Mallorquín and it translated it back to English added to my shopping cart and asked for the ok. I gave it the ok and I got an email from amazon saying purchased. Wow.
This is my new way of shopping from now on. Damn I should have just took a photo of the whole list and said now go buy it but wanted to be sure this all worked. I will admit that I looked at the bots computer to ensure it was the right product. A screenshot in the chat might be a nice way to verify before a purchase just until we fully trust the bot to get it right. But. Still. This is all from mobile while multi tasking and I can close the app and just get notified when it needs my attention and thats why this is such an amazing experience
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A big welcome to Marco Podien to the PayPal Developer team 🥳
Marco is a Berlin-based developer advocate and Developer Relations practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in IT.
At PayPal, he focuses on developer education, technical advocacy, and helping developers turn complex technologies into practical solutions.
His principal interests include TypeScript, generative AI, developer tooling, and developer experience.
Say "hi" to Marco below 👋
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PayPal Developer retweeted
learning more about PayPal every day 🤓
thank you + great work @eddiejaoude 🚀
button first > champion next 🥇
ALT What is a PayPal Champion? A PayPal Champion is an expert who goes above and beyond to advocate for PayPal. As PayPal ambassadors, Champions provide content and thought leadership across communities and solutions. They help influence and mentor others to make the most of their PayPal experience. They are selected for their advocacy based on a number of factors, including: Creating content, such as blogs, videos, and white papers Advocating on social media Engaging in communities and forums Speaking engagements and more!
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Great to hangout with the PayPal Champions on our monthly call and hear what they are working on!
Want to join us? Apply on the PayPal Developer website
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Have you seen PayPal's latest Open Source project?
A Claude Code plugin that integrates PayPal's APIs and MCP server into your development workflow.
Give it a try and let us know how it goes 🚀
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That's a wrap on Ai4.
Thanks to everyone who came by our booth to talk agentic commerce and learn more about what AI-powered buying experiences need next.
@Ai4Conferences is over, but the work continues.
Learn more → paypalevents.swoogo.com/PPAi…
#Ai4 #AgenticCommerce #PayPal
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