About actionbridge
actionbridge is a generic MCP action runner for the documented Zapier exposed-actions API. It lets MCP clients discover, inspect, validate, execute, and retrieve results for actions exposed by the configured Zapier account, without claiming parity with Zapier's full app catalogue or hosted MCP endpoint.
Key features
- 01List and search available actions
- 02Inspect action details and inputs
- 03Validate action parameters
- 04Execute actions
- 05Retrieve execution results
Use cases
- 01Find an exposed action by name or app
- 02Check required inputs before execution
- 03Run a Zapier exposed action from an MCP client
- 04Retrieve the result of a completed action
MCP support
Exposes a generic runner for the Zapier exposed-actions API as MCP tools. It does not provide Zapier's hosted per-user MCP endpoint or specific app action catalogues.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
8Saved tool list · updated 1w ago
This tool takes no parameters.
Details
From the project READMEactionbridge
Zapier exposed actions as MCP tools, talking to the documented Zapier exposed-actions (NLA) API. actionbridge is a clean-room generic action-runner core, under a new name: fresh code, no copied branding.
Special case, stated plainly: Zapier's surface is thousands of per-app actions behind a hosted per-user MCP endpoint; per-app action parity is NOT enumerable and is NOT claimed. actionbridge is a generic runner over whatever actions the key's account has exposed. It does not reproduce Zapier's hosted MCP endpoint, its per-user URL/key embedding, or any specific app's action catalogue.
Tools (generic runner core, 8)
list_actions, search_actions, get_action, execute_action,
list_action_apps, describe_action_inputs,
validate_action_params, get_execution_result.
Not included, by design: every specific app's action catalogue (not enumerable), Zap/Zaps management, folders, Zap history UI surfaces, app connections admin, and the hosted MCP endpoint itself.
Setup
Create a Zapier API key for the exposed-actions API and set it:
export ZAPIER_API_KEY=...
Optionally override the API base with ZAPIER_API_BASE_URL
(default https://nla.zapier.com/api/v1). Without the key, every
tool call fails with an error naming the missing variable.
CLI
npx @reneturcios/actionbridge list_actions
npx @reneturcios/actionbridge execute_action '{"action_id":"123","instructions":"Send it"}'
npx @reneturcios/actionbridge mcp # stdio MCP server
Each tool name is a subcommand taking one JSON object argument.
MCP client config
{
"mcpServers": {
"actionbridge": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/actionbridge", "mcp"],
"env": { "ZAPIER_API_KEY": "..." }
}
}
}
Docker
docker run -i -e ZAPIER_API_KEY ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/actionbridge
Development
npm install
npm run build
npm test
License
MIT
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