Agent setup overview

Learn how to set up most agents, including custom agents, quickly. For even more specific setup guidance, check out our agent setup guides for your specific agent.

Quick setup

Equip your agent with the latest Netlify context, including agent skills:

fetch https://netlify.ai to help me deploy and build with Netlify using the latest agent skills

MCP Server support

Connect to the Netlify MCP server to equip your agent with the best of Netlify expertise and the Netlify CLI.

Connect to Netlify’s remote MCP server

Netlify offers an MCP server, which you can connect to through a connector, plugin, or your agent.

To start connecting to Netlify’s remote MCP server by running this command and following the prompts to select the agents you want to configure:

npx -y add-mcp https://netlify-mcp.netlify.app/mcp

If you would like to use your agent's own official setup command, check out the agent-specific MCP instructions below:

Claude Code
Codex
Claude Web via Claude's Netlify Connector
Claude Desktop via Claude's Netlify Connector
ChatGPT via ChatGPT's Netlify App
Antigravity
Antigravity CLI

The following editors allow one-click install of our MCP with the following links

Connect to Netlify’s Local MCP server

Our recommendation is to use the remote MCP server to have the most up-to-date version of the MCP capabilities. However, some developers are required to use local MCP servers in their environments. You can use the following command to install Netlify's local MCP:

npx -y add-mcp "npx -y @netlify/mcp"

Agent skills

To help your agent build with best practices, check out our agent skills for building and deploying on Netlify.

You can share a skill directly with your agent or have all skills installed in your local project files or repository. Some agents also support invoking a specific skill by name in a command, such as Claude Code with /<skill-name>.

To install agent skills for Netlify with any agent directly in your terminal or agent chat:

npx skills add netlify/context-and-tools --skill '*' --yes

Learn more about agent skills for building and deploying on Netlify in our official agent skills repository.

Agent skills highlights

Here are some highlights of agent skills for building and deploying on Netlify. Note that if you are using Agent Runners, you don't need to invoke agent skills as they are applied automatically for you.

Skill	Feature Support	Description
netlify-functions	Netlify Functions	Modern syntax, routing, Background Functions, Scheduled Functions, and streaming
netlify-edge-functions	Edge Functions	Deno runtime, middleware patterns, geolocation, and request manipulation
netlify-blobs	Netlify Blobs	Key-value and binary object storage with zero configuration
netlify-db	Netlify Database	Managed Postgres, Drizzle ORM integration, and migrations
netlify-image-cdn	Image CDN	On-the-fly image transformation and optimization
netlify-forms	Netlify Forms	HTML form handling, AJAX submissions, and spam filtering
netlify-config	File-based configuration	`netlify.toml` configuration, including redirects, headers, build settings, and deploy contexts
netlify-cli-and-deploy	Netlify CLI	Commands, Git and manual deploys, and environment variables
netlify-deploy	Create deploys	Authentication, site linking, Deploy Previews, and production deploys
netlify-frameworks	Framework adapters	Vite, Astro, TanStack Start, and Next.js on Netlify
netlify-caching	Caching	CDN cache control, cache tags, purge, and stale-while-revalidate
netlify-ai-gateway	AI Gateway	Proxy for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs

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