@zapier/install-zapier

Install and connect Zapier from any agent. Tell your agent "install Zapier" and it picks the right surface for you.

Don't run this yourself in a bare terminal. This is a skill for your agent to read and act on, not a standalone CLI. In your agent's chat (Claude Code, Cursor, or any harness that can run shell commands), ask it to install Zapier, or paste this directly:

Run npx skills use zapier/install-zapier@install-zapier and follow the printed instructions to help me install Zapier.

Your agent runs the command, reads the skill it prints, and interviews you: Zapier MCP (AI clients), the SDK (code), or the CLI (terminal). If you run the same command yourself in a plain terminal, you'll see the raw instructions meant for an agent and nothing more, there's no agent there to act on them.

Once @zapier/install-zapier is live on npm, the same applies to npx @zapier/install-zapier.

What it does

Most people do not know whether they need Zapier MCP, the SDK, or the CLI. This removes the choice, but only your agent can act on it, not you directly.

• Ask your agent to run npx skills use zapier/install-zapier@install-zapier — one-time, prints the skill for the agent to act on, installs nothing.
• npx @zapier/install-zapier (once published) — same, via npm.
• npx @zapier/install-zapier --save <dir> (once published) — writes the skill files to a directory so they persist and auto-trigger later, for agents that support that.

Don't ask your agent to run npx skills add zapier/install-zapier. add is the permanent installer: it asks which of dozens of agent harnesses to install into forever. That's the wrong verb for a router meant to fire once and get out of the way.

This is a vendored skill: the package is the content, not a standalone installer. It does no harness detection and does nothing without an agent reading and acting on it.

Paths it routes to

• Zapier MCP — connect apps to an AI client (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor), no code.
• Zapier SDK — build apps and agents in code with durable workflows.
• Zapier CLI — drive Zapier from the terminal; standalone install that bundles the SDK.

License

MIT