Intercom Core Workflow A

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Building contact management features
• Syncing user data
• Implementing contact search and segmentation against the Intercom REST API
• With phrases like intercom contacts

Example prompts

• “intercom contacts”
• “intercom users”
• “intercom leads”
• “/intercom-core-workflow-a”

Requirements

• A credential in INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Designed for Claude Code
• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:*), Grep

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Create contacts — contacts.create with role: "user" (identified, needs externalId) or role: "lead" (anonymous).
2. 2Search contacts — contacts.search with a single filter or a compound AND/OR query, plus pagination and sort.
3. 3Update a contact — contacts.update by contactId to change name or custom attributes.
4. 4Merge a lead into a user — contacts.merge({ from: leadId, into: userId }); the lead's conversations, events, and tags transfer to the user.
5. 5List segments — contacts.listSegments({ contactId }) to see which segments a contact belongs to.
6. 6Paginate all contacts — contacts.list with startingAfter cursor to stream the full contact base.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 80f86df. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Write
  • Edit
  • Bash(npm:*)
  • Grep

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are typescript).

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

  • developers.intercom.com

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names these keys or tokens, usually read from environment variables:

  • INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Designed for Claude Code

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Intercom Core Workflow A loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs, and up to ~3.1k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 488 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~101

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1.5k

With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them

~3.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace at commit 80f86df, republished under its MIT licence (© jeremylongshore). 488 words, ~1,494 tokens.

name

intercom-core-workflow-a

description

Manage Intercom contacts: create, search, update, merge leads into users. Use when building contact management features, syncing user data, or implementing contact search and segmentation against the Intercom REST API. Trigger with phrases like "intercom contacts", "intercom users", "intercom leads", "create intercom contact", "search intercom contacts", "merge intercom lead".

allowed-tools

Read, Write, Edit, Bash(npm:*), Grep

compatibility

Designed for Claude Code

version

1.6.0

license

MIT

author

Jeremy Longshore <jeremy@intentsolutions.io>

tags

saas, support, messaging, intercom

import { IntercomClient } from "intercom-client";

const client = new IntercomClient({
  token: process.env.INTERCOM_ACCESS_TOKEN!,
});

// Create an identified user (has external_id)
const user = await client.contacts.create({
  role: "user",
  externalId: "customer-9001",
  email: "alice@acme.com",
  name: "Alice Johnson",
  customAttributes: { plan: "enterprise" },
});

const user = await client.contacts.create({
  role: "user",
  externalId: "customer-9001",
  email: "alice@acme.com",
  name: "Alice Johnson",
});

const found = await client.contacts.search({
  query: { field: "email", operator: "=", value: "alice@acme.com" },
});
console.log(`Found ${found.totalCount} match(es)`);

© jeremylongshore, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in skills/.curated/intercom-core-workflow-a of jeremylongshore/tons-of-skills-marketplace.

• SKILL.md
• references/examples.md
• references/implementation.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 80f86df