# getting-started

Guides coding agents through Celigo integration architecture, bottom-up build order, and tooling options across Celigo CLI and MCP.

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- Author: celigo
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/celigo/ai/tree/HEAD/skills/getting-started/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-23
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## What it does

This skill guides assistants through core building blocks of the Celigo integration platform. It covers connections, exports, imports, data flows, JavaScript hooks, and external API endpoints. The instruction enforces a bottom-up setup hierarchy, requiring credentials and endpoint steps to exist before you wire them into a flow.

The workflow runs either through the Celigo CLI or the Celigo Platform MCP server with actions like `upsert_<type>` and `patch_flow`. Creating a flow without setting `_integrationId` fails with a 422 `standalone_flows_not_supported` response. The guide also details clean teardowns, mandating resource deletion in exact reverse order to prevent dependency blocks on active connections.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill getting-started -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/getting-started/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/getting-started/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill getting-started -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/getting-started/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill getting-started -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/getting-started/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install celigo/ai getting-started
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/getting-started/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill getting-started -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/celigo/ai --path skills/getting-started
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/getting-started/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add celigo/ai --skill getting-started -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/celigo/ai/tree/HEAD/skills/getting-started/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- plan the bottom-up resource build order in Celigo
- map CLI commands to Celigo Platform MCP server tools
- match target endpoints against 550+ pre-built HTTP connectors
- tear down dependent integration resources without 422 dependency lockups

## Example prompts
- Plan a Celigo flow between NetSuite and an HTTP endpoint following the bottom-up order
- Map this celigo CLI flow run command to the corresponding Celigo Platform MCP tool
- Show the safe deletion sequence for this Celigo integration and its connections

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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# Getting Started with Celigo Integrations

## Core Concepts

Celigo integrations move data between external systems through a small set of resource types:

- **Connection** -- credentials and configuration that authenticate to an external system (Salesforce, NetSuite, HTTP API, database, FTP, etc.)
- **Export** -- data source step that fetches records from a connected system (or receives them via webhook)
- **Import** -- data destination step that writes records to a connected system
- **Flow** -- pipeline that connects exports to imports, with optional branching, transformation, and scripting
- **Integration** -- named container that groups related flows, connections, and resources
- **Script** -- JavaScript hook that runs at specific points in the data pipeline (preSavePage, preMap, postMap, postSubmit, postResponseMap)
- **API** -- custom HTTP endpoint that exposes integration logic for synchronous external consumption
- **Tool** -- reusable building block (input schema -> routers with lookups/imports -> output contract) callable from flows, APIs, AI agents, MCP servers, and other tools
- **AI agent** -- LLM-powered pipeline step (stored as an import) that classifies, extracts, summarizes, or generates data mid-pipeline
- **Guardrail** -- safety/compliance check (PII, moderation, AI evaluation) that flags records; the parent pipeline decides what happens to flagged records
- **Lookup cache** -- account-level key-value store for fast in-memory reference lookups (cross-reference IDs, large translation tables, dedup markers)
- **Sync** -- a Celigo Data Ingestion pipeline that replicates many tables from one source application into a data warehouse, with a historical backfill and schema-drift handling. It isn't a flow: it has no steps and lives in its own kind of integration ([building-syncs](../building-syncs/SKILL.md))
- **Topic** -- an Event Streams channel: a publisher step turns records into messages, and every listener flow receives all of them from its own position ([configuring-topics](../configuring-topics/SKILL.md))
- **Celigo Storage** -- file and folder storage built into the account, shared by flows, MCP servers, trading partners on the hosted SFTP server, and people ([managing-file-storage](../managing-file-storage/SKILL.md))

### How each surface is invoked

The three pipeline-carrying resources differ mainly in what starts them:

| Resource | Started by | Schedule/listeners | Runtime controls |
|---|---|---|---|
| **Flow** | Itself -- cron schedule, listener/webhook, or another flow chaining into it | Yes | Yes (`proceedOnFailure`, `skipRetries`, chaining, ...) |
| **API** | An external HTTP caller; the request IS the source record | No | No -- errors land on the fail response; retries are the caller's concern |
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