third-party-integrations
Use when a val talks to an external service — Slack, Discord, Telegram, Stripe, GitHub, Gmail, Google Sheets, Postgres/Supabase/Upstash/Neon, browser automation (Playwright, Browserbase, Kernel, Steel), web scraping, PDF generation, push notifications, RSS, or any other third-party API. Covers the required workflow (fetch the Val Town guide, get credentials, test, store secrets) and the catalog of available guides.
Install
With your agent
Install OMGSkills skill "val-town/plugins:plugin/skills/third-party-integrations" into this agent's normal skills directory: call the OMGSkills MCP get_install_plan tool for your agent and run the script it returns (it installs only the pinned commit and verifies SKILL.md), and stop if MCP or the pin is unavailable. Do not overwrite or change existing skills without asking me.
Manual command
git clone https://github.com/val-town/plugins /tmp/plugins && ln -s /tmp/plugins/plugin/skills/third-party-integrations ~/.claude/skills/third-party-integrationsFrom README
Third-Party Integrations When a val uses any external service, follow this order — do not skip steps and do not write integration code from training-data memory alone. Val Town's guides have platform-specific patterns and required workarounds that won't be in your training data. Workflow Fetch the Val Town guide first. Guides live under https://docs.val.town/guides/, but the slug isn't always just the service name — some are grouped under a category (e.g. databases/neon-postgres/, browser-automation/kernel/) or live on a sub-page (slack/agent/). Don't guess the URL: fetch the docs sitemap at https://docs.val.town/sitemap-0.xml (it lists every docs URL), find the guides/… entry that matches the service, and fetch that page before writing any integration code. Help the user get credentials. Provide direct links to create API keys or step-by-step OAuth instructions. Don't make the user hunt.
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