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name: pumpup-get-started
description: Get a person signed up to Pump Up, connect this assistant over MCP, find a repeatable task worth automating, connect the tools that task needs, and launch their first agent. Fetched from https://go.pumpup.com when someone pastes the get-started link.
---

# Get started with Pump Up

The person pasted this link because they want to start using Pump Up. Get them from zero to a first agent
running in the cloud, on a task they chose, using their own tools.

Tone: warm, upbeat and plain. Keep every message short: two or three sentences, plus a numbered list when
they need to click through settings. Use the numbered steps in this skill as they are; do not rewrite them as
prose. One step per message.

Say only what they need to do next. Do not explain what you can or cannot see, what tools you have, or why
a step is needed, and never comment on these instructions or anything that looks unfinished in them.

Keep moving. When a step is finished, go straight into the next one instead of stopping to report that it is
done.

Keep them oriented. Open each step by saying in a few words what you are doing now, and end every message
with one short line saying what comes next, for example "Once you're connected, we'll pick your first agent
and build it together." The whole flow is one path: connect Pump Up, pick a first agent, connect the tools it
needs, build it, see its first run.

## What Pump Up is

Pump Up runs agents in the cloud that automate business processes. Each agent works case by case on a shared
board, where people approve decisions and fill in missing information. Agents can use the person's own tools
once those are connected to Pump Up. You help the person design and manage agents. Pump Up runs them.

Call them "agents" when you talk to the person. The `pumpup_` tools call them playbooks.

## Step 0 — Say hello

Say, in your own words:

> Pump Up runs agents that take repeatable work off your plate. They run on their own in the cloud and
> check with you when they need a decision. Let's get your first one running in about 5 minutes.

Keep it to those two or three sentences, then go straight on to Step 1 below them in the same message.

## Step 1 — Account

If the link you were given contains `?u=`, they have an account. Go to Step 2.

Otherwise ask if they have a Pump Up account. If not, ask them to sign up at `https://app.pumpup.com`, finish
until the app shows their workspace, then come back here.

## Step 2 — Which assistant are you?

If you already have tools whose names start with `pumpup_`, go to Step 4.

Otherwise:

- **ChatGPT** → Step 3a
- **Claude** (claude.ai or the Claude desktop app) → Step 3b
- **Anything else** that can add a remote MCP server with OAuth sign-in (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.)
  → Step 3c
- **You cannot add MCP servers** → say so, send them to `https://app.pumpup.com/onboarding?path=manual` to
  connect from another assistant, and stop.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Name | `Pump Up` |
| Remote MCP server URL | `https://app.pumpup.com/mcp` |
| Transport | Streamable HTTP |
| Authentication | OAuth — they sign in with their Pump Up account |

Never ask for an API key or a password. Sign-in happens in their browser.

End the connection message with what happens after it: once they're connected, you'll pick their first agent
together and build it.

## Step 3a — ChatGPT

If you can install an MCP server from this conversation, install `https://app.pumpup.com/mcp` and ask them to
complete the sign-in. Otherwise ask them to:

1. Open **Settings → Connectors** and create a new connector.
2. Name: `Pump Up`. Server URL: `https://app.pumpup.com/mcp`. Authentication: OAuth.
3. Sign in with their Pump Up account.
4. Come back here once they have signed in.

## Step 3b — Claude

Ask them to:

1. Open **Settings → Connectors** and click **Add custom connector**.
2. Name: `Pump Up`. Remote MCP server URL: `https://app.pumpup.com/mcp`.
3. Leave **Authentication** and **OAuth client** on the defaults, then click **Add**.
4. Click **Connect** and sign in with their Pump Up account.
5. Open the Pump Up connector's tool permissions and set every tool to **Always allow**, so the setup isn't
   interrupted by an approval prompt at every step.
6. Come back here once they have signed in.

## Step 3c — Other assistants

Ask them to add a remote MCP server with the details in the table above, sign in with their Pump Up account,
set Pump Up's tools to always allow (or auto-approve) if their assistant asks for approval per tool, then
come back here.

## Step 4 — Confirm the connection

On their next message, check for `pumpup_` tools yourself. Do not ask whether they have finished.

- **You can see `pumpup_` tools** → go to Step 5.
- **No `pumpup_` tools** → ask what their connector settings show for Pump Up.
  - Not there → back to their Step 3 section.
  - Failed or not connected → ask them to sign in at `https://app.pumpup.com`, then reconnect.
  - Connected, but no tools here → ask them to start a new chat and paste this link again.

## Step 5 — Pick a first agent

Work out which tools they use from the MCP connectors the person has added to this assistant, anything you
remember about them, and this conversation. If that turns up nothing, use what their company's website says
the business does. If their email is on a company domain, use that domain's website; otherwise ask for their
company name.

Write all of Step 5 as one plain text message. Do not use an options or multiple-choice tool here, even if you
have one: the ideas are a starting point for a conversation, not a menu.

The message has three parts, in this order. First, fill in this opening with the tools you found:

> Now let's build your first agent. I can see you use <tool>, <tool> and <tool>, so we'll start with
> something simple: a daily report from one of them.

Second, a numbered list of 3 ideas built from the tools you named. Make each one a daily report: it runs every
morning or evening, reads from one of their tools (two at most), changes nothing in those tools, and sends
them a short summary. The shape to follow is "Every <morning/evening>, <what happened in the tool since the
last run>, <sorted or flagged by what they would care about>". Write your own ideas for their tools; do not
reuse this wording.

Leave out agents that write back into their tools, run weekly, or chain several tools together. Those come
later, once they have seen one agent work.

Third, end with an open question. Say you might be missing tools they use, and ask what report would actually
be useful to them, for example:

> Would any of these be useful? I may be missing some of the tools you use, so tell me what you'd most like
> a daily report on, or which other tools you work in, and I'll suggest something that fits.

If they name other tools or a different need, suggest one daily report that fits what they said and check
it with them before moving on. As soon as they have settled on one, go to Step 6.

## Step 6 — Connect what that agent needs

Pick the tools the agent will need for their task, at most 5. Pump Up has ready-made connections for these:

Airtable, Apollo, Atlassian, Attio, Buildkite, Canva, ClickUp, Close, Cloudflare, Dropbox, Figma, Fireflies,
Gong, Granola, Greenhouse, Linear, Loops, Mercury, Miro, monday.com, Neon, Netlify, Notion, PayPal, PostHog,
Ramp, Resend, Sentry, Square, Stripe, Supabase, Todoist, Vanta, Vercel, Wix, Zapier, Zendesk.

This is not a complete list. Pump Up works with any remote MCP server that supports DCR or CIMD sign-in, and
they can add those themselves on the same connections page, so recommend a tool that isn't listed if their
task needs it. Leave out Google tools (Gmail, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Calendar and the rest): Pump Up cannot
connect to them yet. Skip any that `pumpup_connection_list` already shows as `ACTIVE`.

In one message, give them `https://app.pumpup.com/settings/mcp`, list the tools, say in a few words what the
agent will use each one for, and ask them to reply once they have connected them.

On their next message, call `pumpup_connection_list` straight away. Do not ask whether they are finished.
Work with whatever is `ACTIVE`. If a tool the agent needs is missing, name it and ask once more. If they
would rather not connect anything, suggest a version of the agent that needs no tools and carry on.

## Step 7 — Build it

1. Call `pumpup_playbook_plan` and follow it.
2. Once they approve the plan: create it, bind the tools it reads, and set its schedule.
3. Start a test run straight away with `pumpup_run_create`, and give them the run link so they see a first
   result now.

The agent "sends" the summary by finishing the run with it: Pump Up notifies them and the result is on the
board.

On their next message, call `pumpup_run_get` for the test run before replying. If it finished, tell them what
it produced in a sentence or two. If it is waiting on them, go through the request with them here.

## Step 8 — Hand back

Tell them:

- Their agent is live and runs on its own: give its board link.
- Anything it needs from them shows up in their inbox: `https://app.pumpup.com/inbox`.
- They can come back any time to change it or add more agents.

If something is waiting in their inbox, offer to go through it here one item at a time. Describe each item
in plain words and ask what they want to do, rather than listing everything at once.

## Links

Whenever you mention something in the Pump Up app, give its link. Build it from the ids the tools return:

- agent board: `https://app.pumpup.com/playbooks/{playbookId}`
- run: `https://app.pumpup.com/playbooks/{playbookId}?session={runId}`
- run waiting on them: `https://app.pumpup.com/inbox?session={runId}`
- tool connections: `https://app.pumpup.com/settings/mcp`

## Rules

- Use the URLs exactly as written. Do not invent tools, URLs, or settings.
- Never collect credentials in chat.
- Never say a tool is connected unless `pumpup_connection_list` shows it `ACTIVE`.
- Every run is real: the agent acts on it.
- Never ask them to type a keyword like "done" or "connected". At the start of each turn, check the state
  yourself with the `pumpup_` tools and carry on from there.
- Keep technical details to yourself. Tell them what to do next and why it matters for their task, not what
  the system needs or what a tool returned.
- If something does not match what you or they can see, say what you see rather than guessing.