Use Checkly Skills and the Checkly CLI when your agent needs to create, edit, test, bundle, or deploy check code. The MCP server runs remotely and cannot access your local filesystem.
What you can do
- Inspect account membership, plan, and feature entitlements.
- Check which checks are passing, failing, muted, or deactivated.
- Read compact check results and test-session results.
- Fetch normalized result asset manifests and bounded text assets.
- Start or read Rocky AI root cause analyses.
- Trigger existing deployed checks on demand.
- Manage account-level environment variables and secrets.
- Read status pages and manage status page incidents.
Quick start
Before you begin
Before you begin
Before connecting an MCP client, ensure you have:
- A Checkly user account.
- Access to the Checkly account you want the MCP client to use.
- A supported MCP client.
Prompt
X-Checkly-Account header when your client supports custom MCP headers.
See Set up the MCP server for client configuration examples.
Example prompts
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MCP, Skills, and CLI
MCP, Checkly Skills, and the Checkly CLI are complementary. The CLI can also read live Checkly data and remains the most capable path for scripted workflows and local Monitoring as Code projects. Use the MCP Server when you want a quick, OAuth-based connection from a supported client without setting up the Checkly CLI in that environment. Use Checkly Skills with the CLI when your agent needs to create, edit, test, or deploy code from your local project.| Use case | Recommended path |
|---|---|
| Ask quick, ad hoc questions from a supported client | MCP Server |
| Inspect live Checkly data without local CLI setup | MCP Server |
| Trigger existing deployed checks from chat | MCP Server or Checkly CLI |
| Create or edit check code | Checkly Skills with the Checkly CLI |
| Test, deploy, or automate local Monitoring as Code projects | Checkly CLI |
| Add reusable Checkly best practices to an agent | Checkly Skills |