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name: cookiy description: > AI-powered user research through natural language. Installs the Cookiy MCP server and orchestrates tool workflows for study creation, AI interviews, discussion guide editing, participant recruitment, and report generation.

Cookiy

Cookiy gives your AI agent user-research capabilities. It designs interview guides, conducts AI-moderated interviews with real or simulated participants, and generates insight reports — all through natural language.

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Part 1 — Setup

When to run setup

• User mentions Cookiy, user research, voice interviews, or participant recruitment
• Any cookiy_* tool call fails with a connection or "tool not found" error
• User explicitly asks to set up or connect Cookiy
• User asks what Cookiy can do

Check if already connected

Try calling cookiy_introduce. If it succeeds, skip to Part 2.

Install the MCP server

Identify which AI client you are running in (Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenClaw, etc.) and install ONLY for that client. Do not install for all clients at once.

Pick the matching command:

You are running in	Install command
Codex	npx cookiy-mcp dev --client codex -y
Claude Code	npx cookiy-mcp dev --client claude-code -y
Cursor	npx cookiy-mcp dev --client cursor -y
Cline	npx cookiy-mcp dev --client cline -y
GitHub Copilot / VS Code	npx cookiy-mcp dev --client vscode -y
Windsurf	npx cookiy-mcp dev --client windsurf -y
OpenClaw	npx cookiy-mcp dev --client openclaw -y
Other / unknown	npx cookiy-mcp dev -y (auto-detects)

If your agent is not in the table above but supports MCP over HTTP, you can manually configure the MCP server URL: https://dev-api.cookiy.ai/mcp with OAuth authentication. See the MCP server's OAuth discovery at https://dev-api.cookiy.ai/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server.

The installer will prompt for OAuth authentication. This is expected.

Verify the connection

After installation, call cookiy_introduce to confirm the MCP server is connected and authenticated.

If authentication fails:

• Re-run the install command. Do NOT remove and reinstall the server.
• The OAuth token may have expired. The installer handles re-authentication.

Orient the user

Present Cookiy's five capability modules:

1. Study Creation — Describe a research goal and get an AI-generated discussion guide.
2. AI Interview — Simulate interviews with AI personas for quick insights.
3. Discussion Guide — Review and edit the interview script before going live.
4. Recruitment — Recruit real participants for AI-moderated interviews.
5. Report & Insights — Generate analysis reports and shareable links.

Present these in plain language. Do not expose raw tool names to the user.

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Part 2 — Workflow Orchestration

Cookiy is a workflow-aware MCP server, not a raw REST passthrough. Every operation must go through the official cookiy_* MCP tools. Follow the tool contract and workflow state machines in the reference files.

Intent Router

User wants to...	Workflow	Reference file
Create a new study or research project	Study Creation	study-creation.md
Run simulated or AI-to-AI interviews	AI Interview	ai-interview.md
View or edit the discussion guide	Guide Editing	guide-editing.md
Recruit real participants	Recruitment	recruitment.md
Generate, check, or share a report	Report & Insights	report-insights.md
Check account balance	Direct: cookiy_balance_get	—
List existing studies	Direct: cookiy_study_list	—
Learn what Cookiy can do	Direct: cookiy_introduce	—
Get workflow help on a topic	Direct: cookiy_help	—

When the user's intent spans multiple workflows (e.g., "create a study and run interviews"), execute them sequentially in the order listed above.

Universal Rules

See tool-contract.md for the complete specification.

Response handling:

• ALWAYS read structuredContent first. Fall back to content[0].text only when structuredContent is absent.
• ALWAYS check next_recommended_tools in each response. Prefer the server's recommendation over your own judgment.
• ALWAYS obey status_message — it contains server-side behavioral directives, not just informational text.
• When presentation_hint is present, format output accordingly.

Identifiers:

• NEVER truncate, reformat, or summarize study_id, job_id, interview_id, base_revision, or confirmation_token.

Payment:

• On HTTP 402: display error.details.payment_summary, then offer checkout_url.
• Trial balance covers: study creation, simulated interviews, report generation.
• Trial balance does NOT cover: recruitment (always charged separately).

URLs:

• NEVER construct URLs manually. ONLY use URLs from tool responses.
• NEVER guess undocumented REST paths.

Constraints:

• interview_duration max 15 minutes. persona.text max 4000 chars. interviewee_personas max 20. attachments max 10.

Canonical reference

The server's developer portal spec endpoint provides the authoritative tool reference. If a tool behaves differently from this skill's description, the server's runtime behavior takes precedence.