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Agent skills that teach AI coding agents (such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Claude Desktop, and claude.ai) when to reach for Decodo for web scraping, which Decodo tool to use, and how to call it. Decodo handles JavaScript rendering, anti-bot and CAPTCHA handling, proxy rotation, and geo-targeting (125M+ IPs across 195+ locations) so agents get clean web data without managing scraping infrastructure themselves.

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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 that the agent loads on demand and follows to set up tools, choose the right approach, and handle edge cases without additional prompting. Without a skill, an agent may default to curl, Requests, or Playwright – approaches that can struggle with JavaScript-rendered pages or anti-bot systems and may require you to manage proxies yourself. Decodo skills change that default: the agent detects when a plain fetch isn’t suitable and routes the request through the appropriate Decodo tool automatically.

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Skills

More workflow skills (e.g. competitive intelligence) are planned.

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Install

Add the repository as a plugin marketplace and install the Decodo plugin. It bundles all available skills in one step:
(decodo-skills is the marketplace name, while decodo is the plugin.)

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Manual copy

These are Anthropic-format agent skills. Copy a skill into your agent’s skills directory:
The agent loads skills on demand – no additional configuration needed.

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What the skill expects

  • A Web Scraping API Basic Auth token. A free tier with up to 2K requests and no card required is available from the Playground.
  • A shell for using the CLI. If no shell is available, the skill automatically routes to the hosted MCP server (https://mcp.decodo.com/mcp) or the raw HTTP API.

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Example prompts

Once you’ve installed a skill, try these prompts with your agent:

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Repo layout

  • CLI – Run Decodo scraping workflows from the command line.
  • MCP Server – Connect AI agents and MCP-compatible tools to Decodo.
  • TypeScript SDK – Integrate the Web Scraping API into TypeScript and JavaScript projects.
  • Python SDK – Integrate the Web Scraping API into Python projects.
  • Go SDK – Integrate the Web Scraping API into Go projects.
  • GitHub repository – View the Agent Skills latest skills, installation instructions, and examples.

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