# zapier-status

A skill that reports on your Zapier MCP setup: which actions are live, what broke, and what you can drop.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 449
- Author: zapier
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/zapier/zapier-mcp/tree/HEAD/plugins/zapier/skills/zapier-status/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/zapier-status

## What it does

The skill runs in three modes, picked from what you ask. Health check gives a dashboard: the agent inspects the Zapier MCP tools it can see, groups them by app, counts the actions and splits them into read and write by name. No tools at all? It reports the connection state and points you at `zapier-onboard`.

Audit hunts for waste. It looks for overlapping actions inside Zapier MCP, then reads the client's MCP config (`claude_desktop_config.json`, `.mcp.json`, `.cursor/mcp.json`, depending on the client) to spot apps you already reach through a native server. Slack wired up twice is the usual find. You get a removal list, and the actual cleanup happens on `mcp.zapier.com`.

Diagnose walks the failure in order: connection, whether the action exists on this server, app auth, then the call's parameters. Symptoms get matched against a table of known errors. One thing to know up front: when every tool fails at once, the server's own auth has usually lapsed, and reconnecting a single app won't help.

## Requirements
- Works with: Zapier

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-status -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-status -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-status -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install zapier/zapier-mcp zapier-status
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-status -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/zapier/zapier-mcp --path plugins/zapier/skills/zapier-status
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-status -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/zapier/zapier-mcp/tree/HEAD/plugins/zapier/skills/zapier-status/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- see which Zapier MCP actions the agent can actually call
- spot duplicate actions covering the same job
- catch overlap between Zapier actions and a native MCP server
- trace why one tool call keeps failing
- build a list of actions worth removing and re-adding later

## Example prompts
- Check my Zapier tools, is everything working?
- Audit my Zapier MCP setup and tell me what to remove
- My tools aren't working, figure out what's broken

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
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](https://docs.zapier.com/mcp/home).

## 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
```

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

5. 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
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