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Steph Spector

In the fifth grade, Steph defeated the school bully in a bongo drum contest, her greatest achievement to date. Between writing about AI and automation for Zapier, she provides executive writing coaching from her home in Austin, Texas. To say hi, visit stephspector.com.
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Automation inspiration

How to automate Claude safely with Zapier MCP

Learn how to install Zapier MCP and let Claude Chat, Cowork, and Code act across your favorite apps.

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Zapier feature guides

Code by Zapier: Add custom code to your workflows

Code by Zapier is a built-in tool that lets you drop custom code—JavaScript or Python—directly into your Zap workflows. Learn how to set it up here.

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Zapier feature guides

Zapier SDK: Connect your code files to thousands of actions

With the Zapier SDK, you can give your AI coding agents governed access to 9,000+ apps, plus 3,000 additional ones via fetch.

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The best integration SDKs in 2026

Every SDK in this article gives you authenticated access to external APIs without managing OAuth flows yourself. But they're built around different assumptions about who's doing what.

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A Zap with the trigger 'When I get a new lead from Facebook,' and the action 'Notify my team in Slack'