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Official agent skill

Zapier Status

by zapier in zapier/zapier-mcp

Check the health of your Zapier MCP setup. An agent skill from zapier/zapier-mcp.

OfficialMITAuto-check passedProductivity & Automation

Install Zapier Status

skills CLI
$ npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-status -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install zapier/zapier-mcp zapier-status --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zapier/zapier-mcp.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/plugins/zapier/skills/zapier-status .claude/skills/zapier-status && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
zapier-status
GitHub stars
430
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
789 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
4
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Check the health of your Zapier MCP setup. An agent skill from zapier/zapier-mcp.

  • Works in 3 steps: Inspect the available Zapier MCP tools.… → If no Zapier tools are available: report… → If tools are available, build a summary…
  • Asking is my MCP working?
  • SKILL.md covers Mode 1: Health check, Mode 2: Audit, Mode 3: Diagnose and General notes
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Zapier Status is an agent skill from zapier/zapier-mcp, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Check the health of your Zapier MCP setup. Three modes — health check (dashboard view), audit (find waste and duplicates), diagnose (systematic troubleshooting). Use when asking "is my MCP working?", "check my tools", "audit my setup", "what's broken?", or "zapier status".

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Workflow automation and MCP servers. It works with Zapier, Model Context Protocol and Slack. The repository describes itself as: Official plugin distribution for the hosted Zapier MCP server. Install it in your AI client and connect to thousands of apps. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Asking is my MCP working?
  • Tasks that involve Workflow automation
  • Tasks that involve MCP servers

Example prompts

  • “is my MCP working?”
  • “check my tools”
  • “audit my setup”
  • “/zapier-status”

Workflow steps

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

  1. Inspect the available Zapier MCP tools. The exact surface depends on the server's configuration — some servers expose meta-tools that…
  2. If no Zapier tools are available: report the connection status and suggest running zapier-onboard.
  3. If tools are available, build a summary by grouping them by app

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 5360f15. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    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):

    • docs.zapier.com
    • mcp.zapier.com
    • status.zapier.com

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

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

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

Context cost

Zapier Status loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 72 tokens; SKILL.md has 789 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~72
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k

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

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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 zapier/zapier-mcp at commit 5360f15, republished under its MIT licence (© zapier). 789 words, ~1,830 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/zapier-status/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
zapier-status
description
Check the health of your Zapier MCP setup. Three modes — health check (dashboard view), audit (find waste and duplicates), diagnose (systematic troubleshooting). Use when asking "is my MCP working?", "check my tools", "audit my setup", "what's broken?", or "zapier status".

Zapier status

Three modes for monitoring and maintaining a Zapier MCP setup. Determine the mode from context, or ask if unclear.

For how the Zapier MCP server itself works, see docs.zapier.com/mcp.

Mode 1: Health check

Trigger: "check my tools", "zapier status", "is everything working?", or any general status inquiry.

A quick dashboard view of the current state.

Steps

  1. Inspect the available Zapier MCP tools. The exact surface depends on the server's configuration — some servers expose meta-tools that report the action inventory, others expose each configured action as its own named tool. Use whichever signal is available.

  2. If no Zapier tools are available: report the connection status and suggest running zapier-onboard.

  3. If tools are available, build a summary by grouping them by app:

For each app, show:

  • App name
  • Number of actions
  • Action types (infer read vs write from names: find/search/get/list = read, send/create/update/add = write)
  • Quick status: working / needs auth / error

Format as a dashboard:

Zapier MCP status
=================
Server: connected
Total actions: 14 across 5 apps

Slack         3 actions (2 read, 1 write)     ✓ working
Gmail         3 actions (1 read, 2 write)     ✓ working
Google Cal    2 actions (1 read, 1 write)     ✓ working
Jira          3 actions (2 read, 1 write)     ✓ working
Google Docs   2 actions (1 read, 1 write)     ✓ working

  1. If any actions appear broken (based on recent errors or auth issues), flag them.

  2. End with: "Everything looks good." or "Found [N] issues. Want me to diagnose them?"

Mode 2: Audit

Trigger: "audit my setup", "clean up my tools", "find duplicates", "what should I remove?"

Find inefficiencies: duplicate actions, unused tools, conflicts with native MCP servers.

Steps

  1. Get the full inventory by inspecting the available Zapier MCP tools.

  2. Check for duplicates within Zapier MCP:

    • Multiple actions for the same app that do similar things (e.g., both a "find message" and a "search messages" Slack action)
    • Recommend removing the less useful one

  3. Check for conflicts with native MCP servers:

    • Look at other MCP servers configured in the client's MCP config file (e.g., .cursor/mcp.json, claude_desktop_config.json, .mcp.json — depends on the client)
    • If the user has both a native Slack MCP and Zapier Slack actions, flag it
    • Recommend: "You have Slack through both Zapier and a native Slack server. The native server is usually better for single-app use. Consider removing Zapier's Slack actions."

  4. Check for unused or low-value actions:

    • Actions that are rarely useful as defaults (e.g., very specific write actions that are only needed occasionally)
    • Suggest removing actions that can be re-added on demand

  5. Show the audit report:

Audit results
=============
Duplicates:       1 found
  - Slack: "find_message" and "search_messages" overlap. Recommend removing "search_messages".

Native conflicts:  1 found
  - Slack: native Slack MCP also configured. Consider removing Zapier Slack actions.

Cleanup candidates: 2 found
  - Google Sheets "delete_row": rarely needed, can re-add on demand
  - Jira "add_attachment": niche action, add when needed

Recommended removals: 4 actions
Want me to show you how to clean these up?
  1. If the user says yes, direct them to mcp.zapier.com to remove the recommended actions (or use the server's in-chat disable tool if available). List exactly which ones to remove.

Mode 3: Diagnose

Trigger: "what's broken?", "my tools aren't working", "debug my MCP", or when a specific tool call has failed.

Systematic troubleshooting with error pattern matching.

Show full SKILL.md (364 more words)Show less
Steps

  1. Gather context: Ask what went wrong, or use the error from the current conversation.

  2. Run diagnostics in order:

    a. Connection check: Try calling any available Zapier tool. If nothing works, the problem is server-level (auth, config, network).

    b. Action check: Is the specific action available on this server? If not, the user needs to add it at mcp.zapier.com (or via the server's in-chat discovery tools if available).

    c. Auth check: Try calling a read action for the affected app. If it returns an auth error, the app connection needs re-authentication.

    d. Parameter check: Review the failing call's parameters. Common issues:

    • Missing required fields
    • Wrong field format (IDs vs names)
    • Instructions that are too vague for the params resolver

  3. Match against known error patterns:

SymptomLikely causeFix
All tools failServer auth expiredRe-authenticate at mcp.zapier.com
One app fails, others workApp-level auth expiredRe-connect that specific app
Tool not found / unavailableAction not configuredDirect user to mcp.zapier.com to add it
"invalid params"Wrong fields or formatCheck the tool's parameter schema
Results are empty but expected data existsSearch too narrow or wrong fieldBroaden the search or check field names
Timeout on executeServer overloaded or action is slowRetry once, then report if persistent
"rate limit exceeded"Too many callsSpace out requests, wait 30 seconds
Works in one project, fails in anotherProject-level vs global configCheck both project-level and global MCP config for the client
  1. Report findings:

"Here's what I found:

  • Connection: OK (server responding)
  • Actions: 14 tools available across 5 apps
  • Auth issue: Gmail connection expired. You need to re-authenticate Gmail at mcp.zapier.com.
  • Recommendation: [direct link or specific instruction]"
  1. If the fix requires user action (re-auth, config change), provide the specific link or instruction. If it's something the AI can fix (adjust parameters, try a different tool), offer to do it.

General notes

  • Always inspect the available Zapier MCP tools as the first diagnostic step in any mode.
  • Don't dump raw error messages. Translate them into plain language.
  • If a problem is beyond what the skill can diagnose (server-side bug, API outage), say so and suggest checking status.zapier.com or contacting support.

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Files

Just SKILL.md in plugins/zapier/skills/zapier-status of zapier/zapier-mcp.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 5360f15

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Questions about Zapier Status

What does Zapier Status do?

Check the health of your Zapier MCP setup. An agent skill from zapier/zapier-mcp. Zapier Status is an agent skill from zapier/zapier-mcp, published by the product's own GitHub organization. Check the health of your Zapier MCP setup.

When should I use Zapier Status?

Zapier Status fits situations like: asking is my MCP working?; tasks that involve Workflow automation; tasks that involve MCP servers.

How do I install Zapier Status in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-status -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/zapier/skills/zapier-status in zapier/zapier-mcp) into .claude/skills/zapier-status in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Zapier Status in Codex?

Run `npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-status -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (plugins/zapier/skills/zapier-status in zapier/zapier-mcp) into .agents/skills/zapier-status in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Zapier Status in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-status -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/zapier-status, .gemini/skills/zapier-status, .github/skills/zapier-status and .opencode/skills/zapier-status in your project.

What does Zapier Status need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Zapier Status is instructions for the agent only.

Does Zapier Status access the network?

SKILL.md names 3 domains. As links in the text: docs.zapier.com, mcp.zapier.com and status.zapier.com. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Zapier Status safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Zapier Status use?

Zapier Status is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Zapier Status use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Zapier Status?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Zapier Status: MCP Sheet Cache Bridge (zapier/gtm-cheat-codes, 342 stars), MCP Urgent Caller Triage (zapier/gtm-cheat-codes, 342 stars), Zapier Workflows (davila7/claude-code-templates, 33k stars) and Install Zapier (zapier/gtm-cheat-codes, 342 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Zapier Status?

zapier (a GitHub organization, an official publisher) maintains it in zapier/zapier-mcp, which has 430 GitHub stars. The repository holds 4 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on July 29, 2026.

Source: zapier/zapier-mcp on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.