Decodo agent skills

Agent skills that teach AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, claude.ai) when to reach for Decodo for web scraping, which surface to use, and how to call it.

Decodo handles JavaScript rendering, anti-bot/CAPTCHA, proxy rotation, and geo-targeting (125M+ IPs across 195+ locations) so agents get clean web data without managing scraping infrastructure.

What are agent skills?

Agent skills are instruction files that extend what a coding agent knows how to do. Each skill has a structured description — the agent loads it on demand and follows it to set up tools, pick the right approach, and handle edge cases without extra prompting.

Without a skill, an agent defaults to curl, Requests, or Playwright – tools that fail on JS-rendered pages, get blocked by anti-bot systems, and require you to manage proxies. The Decodo skills change that default: the agent detects when a plain fetch won't work and routes to the right Decodo surface automatically.

Skills

Skill	What it does
decodo-web-scraping	Core routing layer for web scraping, Google/Bing search, Amazon/Walmart/Target eCommerce, and Reddit/TikTok/YouTube social data. Routes across the decodo CLI, the hosted MCP server, and the raw HTTP API depending on the agent's environment.
decodo-price-monitoring	Pricing workflow: get a current price, find the cheapest seller across retailers, and track prices over time to catch drops (Amazon, Walmart, Target, Google Shopping). Builds on the decodo-web-scraping skill.

More workflow skills (e.g., competitive intelligence) will be introduced in the future.

Install

As a plugin (recommended for Claude Code)

Add this repo as a plugin marketplace and install the decodo plugin – it bundles every skill in one step:

/plugin marketplace add Decodo/agent-skills
/plugin install decodo@decodo-skills

(decodo-skills is the marketplace name, decodo is the plugin.)

Manual copy

These are Anthropic-format agent skills. Copy a skill into your agent's skills directory:

# Claude Code (user-level)
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r skills/decodo-web-scraping ~/.claude/skills/

The agent loads skills on demand – no additional configuration needed.

What the skill expects

• A Decodo Web Scraping API basic auth token – free tier (up to 2K requests, no card) available from the Decodo dashboard
• A shell for the CLI path. With no shell, the skill routes to the hosted MCP server (https://mcp.decodo.com/mcp) or the raw HTTP API automatically.

Example prompts

Once a skill is installed, try these with your agent:

Scrape the top 5 Hacker News headlines and summarize them.

Search Google for "best residential proxy providers" and give me the top organic results.

What is the current price of Amazon product B09H74FXNW? Find the cheapest seller.

Scrape reddit.com/r/Python for the top 5 posts this week.

Track the price of B09H74FXNW on Amazon daily and alert me when it drops below $50.

Repo layout

skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md       # one skill per directory; dir name must match frontmatter `name`
skills/<skill-name>/references/    # optional deep-dive docs the SKILL.md links to (progressive disclosure)

Related

• Decodo/cli — the decodo CLI (@decodo/cli on npm)
• Decodo/mcp-server — hosted + self-host MCP server
• Decodo/web-scraping-api - raw HTTP API reference

Try it

Add a Decodo skill to your agent and give it real-time access to any website – no proxy setup, no anti-bot headaches.

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License

MIT — see LICENSE.