zapier-explore

zapier-explore is a skill for Claude Code from zapier/zapier-mcp. It costs 130 tokens per session (3,742 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided way to explore Zapier MCP, which lets an AI client use selected actions in other apps. It asks about the user's role and commonly used apps, then suggests and helps configure relevant actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify useful app workflows, choose specific actions, and enable a starter toolkit after the first Zapier action has been demonstrated.
Why use it?
It turns a single demonstration into a set of app actions suited to the user's daily work. It helps users decide what to connect instead of configuring actions without a clear use.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the zapier plugin — 4 skills, 1 agent, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it to identify useful app workflows, choose specific actions, and enable a starter toolkit after the first Zapier action has been demonstrated.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zapier/zapier-mcp/zapier-explore
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add zapier/zapier-mcp --skill zapier-explore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zapier/zapier-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install zapier, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 skills, 1 agent, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 130 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,742 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00130 $0.03742
Opus 5 $0.00065 $0.01871
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00748
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00374

Measured 11d ago against content hash f047ce82ae5b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

zapier-explore scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/zapier/skills/zapier-explore/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Zapier explore

Help the user expand beyond the first action — figure out what Zapier MCP can do for them based on their role and apps, then walk them through enabling a starter set of actions tailored to that work.

This is the natural follow-on to zapier-demo. Demo proves one action works; explore turns that into a real toolkit for the user's day-to-day.

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

When to use vs. other skills

  • zapier-explore (this skill) — role-tailored expansion. Interview + use cases + configuration.
  • zapier-demoone app, one action, run it live. Run this first if the user hasn't seen Zapier work yet.
  • zapier-onboardpitch + connect. Server-level authentication only. Run this before demo if the server isn't connected.
  • zapier-statushealth checks and audits on an existing setup.

If the user hasn't run their first action yet, route to zapier-demo first — explore works best after a win.

Step 1: Interview

Keep it short — two or three questions, not a survey. Adapt follow-ups based on answers.

Open with:

"Let's figure out what to add to your Zapier toolkit. Quick context first — what do you do for work, and what apps are you in every day?"

Listen for:

  • Role / function (engineer, PM, sales, marketing, founder, support, creator, ops, recruiter, finance, exec, personal)
  • Named apps (Slack, Gmail, Jira, HubSpot, etc.)
  • Industry signals (sole automation builder vs. on a team, B2B vs. consumer, startup vs. enterprise)

If they give you only role or only apps, ask one follow-up. If they give you both, optionally ask:

"Is there a task you keep redoing manually that you'd love to delegate?"

Don't push past three questions. Move on with what you've got.

Step 2: Suggest use cases

Pick the role library below that best matches the user's answers (multiple is fine — combine for hybrid roles). For each, surface 4–6 use cases tailored to the apps they mentioned. If they named an app you don't have in the library, default to the closest equivalent (e.g., "Outlook" → use the Gmail patterns; "Monday.com" → use the Asana patterns).

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 248 lines · 130 tokens per session scan A f047ce82ae5b

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zapier-explore is a skill published in the GitHub repository zapier/zapier-mcp (405 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 130 tokens to every session and 3,742 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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