airtable-cli
A skill from Airtable that teaches an agent to work with Airtable through the airtable-mcp command-line tool, which fetches its commands from Airtable's hosted MCP server.
What the skill teaches
A skill from Airtable that teaches an agent to work with Airtable through the airtable-mcp command-line tool, which fetches its commands from Airtable's hosted MCP server. The agent installs the CLI from npm, supplies a personal access token through an environment variable or the configure command, and lists the available tools before assuming any exist, since names and arguments can change between server releases. It can then list bases, read and write records, manage tables and fields, and filter or search data from the terminal. It is part of Airtable's plugin for agents.
Capabilities
- Run Airtable MCP tools from the terminal with airtable-mcp
- Discover available tools at runtime
- Authenticate with a personal access token
Install
- Run this to add it to Any client:
npx skills add airtable/skills --skill airtable-cli
Details
| Fact | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Skill | |
| Tool | Airtable | |
| Publisher | Airtable | source |
| Official status | Officialin Airtable's own GitHub org; README calls the repo the canonical, official home of Airtable's plugins and skills | source |
| Needs an API key or sign-in | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Includes scripts | No | source |
| Platforms | Not stated in its documentation | |
| AI clients | Claude Code, Cursor, Codex | source |
| Licence | MIT | source |
| Pricing | Not stated in its documentation | |
| Activity | Last commit Jul 21, 202653 GitHub starsDownload data not available (not on npm or PyPI) | source |
| Links | Repository |
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Sources
- GitHub repositorygithub.com/airtable/skills · Backs: AI clients, Official status, Publisher, Activity, LicenceNov 11, 2026
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/airtable/skills · Backs: LicenceNov 12, 2026
- Folder in the repository (airtable-cli)github.com/airtable/skills · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 12, 2026
- Skill file (SKILL.md)github.com/Airtable/skillsNov 10, 2026
- Folder in the repository (airtable-cli)github.com/Airtable/skills · Backs: Includes scriptsNov 10, 2026