connect-tool

Give the user's agents a new tool they can use from any folder, as a <tool>-cli skill. Talk to the user in their language, one short question at a time, no jargon.

If you got this skill from a link instead of a local folder, install nothing else from the repo: download a file it links only when a step needs it, with curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills/main/skills/connect-tool/<path> -o <scratch>/<file> (for example scripts/cli_template.py), and read another skill it names only when you reach it, from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Melvynx/ai-maxxing-skills/main/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md.

1. Confirm the tool (fix typos: "mtoin" is Notion). If ~/.agents/skills/<tool>-cli/ exists, read it and ask before changing it.
2. Look for a CLI published by the vendor itself (their docs, domain, or GitHub org); check command -v in case it is installed. Official CLI found: steps 3a. None: steps 3b. Never install a third-party package without the user's yes. 3a. Install with the documented method, preferring brew on macOS, then the vendor's npm i -g / pipx / uv tool install, then their own install script. Ask before sudo. Check <cli> --version; if not found, fix the shell PATH and say so in one line. Log in with the CLI's browser login when it has one; if it needs a key, the user adds export <VAR>=... to ~/.zshrc themselves. Read <cli> --help and the main subcommands' --help. 3b. Read the official API docs: base URL, auth header, extra values like a subdomain or workspace id, and the endpoints behind the 5 to 10 things the user will really ask. Copy scripts/cli_template.py to ~/.agents/skills/<tool>-cli/scripts/<tool>.py and fill the constants, auth_headers, SETTINGS, and COMMANDS with confirmed endpoints only (check is a cheap read, stdlib only). Tell the user where to create the key, with the narrowest permissions that fit, and to run python3 ~/.agents/skills/<tool>-cli/scripts/<tool>.py login in their terminal (hidden input). If they paste the key in the chat instead, pipe it straight in with printf '%s' '<key>' | python3 .../<tool>.py login --<setting> <value>, never repeat it, never write it anywhere else.
3. Prove it works: one read-only command, then one real read (list a few items). Fix until both work.
4. Write ~/.agents/skills/<tool>-cli/SKILL.md, under 30 lines, with only commands you ran or saw in --help or the docs. <run> is <cli> or python3 ~/.agents/skills/<tool>-cli/scripts/<tool>.py:

---
name: <tool>-cli
description: <Tool> from the terminal: <main resources>. Use when the user asks to <4-6 real tasks in their words>.
---

Run `<run> <command>`; check `--help` before a command you have not used. Auth: <login command or VAR, where the key comes from>.

- <Task>: `<command> [args]`
- ...

Read before writing. Ask before anything that deletes, publishes, sends, or spends money. Docs: <url>.

6. Link it for Claude Code: if ~/.claude/skills is not already a link to ~/.agents/skills, run mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && ln -s ~/.agents/skills/<tool>-cli ~/.claude/skills/<tool>-cli.

Finish with three lines: what is connected (CLI and account), that a new session shows /<tool>-cli, and one thing to try now.