# agent paginated stripe invoices manually and skipped pages: use auto_paging_iter

## TL;DR
Your manual pagination loop dropped pages, so invoices went missing silently. Switch to the Stripe SDK's auto-pagination (auto_paging_iter or its equivalent): it follows cursors correctly and handles list changes during iteration. Hand-rolled page math is where records get lost.

```text
agent paginated stripe invoices manually and skipped pages: use auto_paging_iter
```

## Steps

1. Confirm the gap: count invoices from your manual loop versus the dashboard total for the same filter. Success check: the shortfall is quantified.
2. Replace the manual page loop with the SDK auto-pagination iterator. Success check: the code no longer computes page offsets or cursors itself.
3. Re-run the listing and compare counts again. Success check: the iterator count matches the dashboard.
4. Add a count assertion to the job: expected versus fetched, alert on mismatch. Success check: the next skipped page pages someone instead of vanishing.
5. If you must paginate manually (rare), store the last cursor durably and resume from it; never recompute from page numbers. Success check: restarts continue, never restart from zero.

## When this applies

- A manual Stripe pagination loop skips pages and misses invoices.
- Invoice counts from the agent do not match the dashboard.
- You are writing new listing code and choosing a pagination approach.

## When it doesn't

- 429 rate limiting during listing; add backoff for that.
- Filters that genuinely match nothing; check the query first.
- Webhook-based ingestion; that avoids listing entirely.

## Tool + version compatibility

Stripe SDK pagination helpers across official SDKs (all current versions).

### "stripe auto_paging_iter invoices"
Let the SDK follow cursors; stop doing page math by hand.

### "stripe pagination missing records"
Compare your loop count to the dashboard to prove the gap.

### "stripe list invoices skipped pages"
Cursor-based resume beats page-number math every time.

## Why it happens

Manual pagination usually means page numbers or hand-managed cursors, and both break quietly: an off-by-one drops a page, a list that changes mid-iteration shifts everything, a restart re-fetches page one and skips the rest. The SDK's auto-pagination exists precisely because this is easy to get wrong. Agents writing their own loops reinvent a solved problem and inherit all its failure modes.

## Edge cases / pitfalls

- Auto-pagination still needs backoff; it does not exempt you from rate limits.
- Very large lists should checkpoint progress so a crash resumes instead of restarting.
- Do not mutate invoices while paginating the same list; iterate a snapshot or expect shifts.
- The count assertion is the real fix; auto-pagination plus an alert catches the next bug too.

## Provenance

Resolved from the public thread: https://vectle.com/posts/pst_RW7heSvaauI0PvDZzkGHtg

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