show-airtable-link

What this skill does

# Show Airtable link

After any MCP call that affects user-visible Airtable content, return a clickable link to the most-specific surface the call's results give the user access to. The link is how the user reviews the agent's work — without it, the work is invisible until they go hunting for it.

## URL templates

All URLs are built from IDs the tool calls actually returned. Don't include any ID slot — `viw*`, `tbl*`, `rec*`, `pag*`, etc. — that wasn't in a tool response.

| Surface                | URL pattern                                    |
| ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| Workspace              | `https://airtable.com/workspaces/<wspId>`      |
| Base                   | `https://airtable.com/<appId>`                 |
| Base interfaces hub    | `https://airtable.com/<appId>/interfaces`      |
| Table                  | `https://airtable.com/<appId>/<tblId>`         |
| Record (table context) | `https://airtable.com/<appId>/<tblId>/<recId>` |
| Interface page         | `https://airtable.com/<appId>/<pagId>`         |
| Record (page context)  | `https://airtable.com/<appId>/<pagId>/<recId>` |

ID prefixes: `wsp` (workspace), `app` (base), `tbl` (table), `pag` (interface page), `rec` (record), `fld` (field). Construct URLs using IDs verbatim from MCP responses — do not lowercase, transform, or guess them.

## Priority order

Hand off the **most-specific** URL the work allows:

1. **Single record** — when the work targeted one record. Use the page-context URL if `get_record_for_page` returned the record; otherwise the table-context URL.
2. **Interface page** — when the work was scoped to a page (page reads / listings).
3. **Table** — for multi-record work or schema changes (created / updated tables, fields). Don't list every record back; link the table once.
4. **Base** — last resort: just-created base, base-wide schema operation, or when nothing more specific applies.

For multi-record results without one obvious "best" record, link the table or page once. Do not produce a link per record — that's spam.

## Permission-aware handoff

The MCP user's auth determines which tools succeed. Hand off URLs only at access surfaces the call sequence has proven:

-   **Page-restricted users**: only `list_pages_for_base`, `list_records_for_page`, `get_record_for_page` succeeded. Hand off page URLs only — synthesizing a `tbl*` URL the user can't open produces a dead link from their perspective.
-   **Table-level access**: `list_tables_for_base`, `get_table_schema`, `list_records_for_table`, `update_records_for_table` succeeded. Table URLs are safe.
-   **Workspace-level access**: `list_workspaces` returned IDs. Workspace URLs are safe.

Standing rule: if a tool call didn't prove the access surface, don't link to it. When in doubt, drop one specificity level and link the surface you do have.

## Presentation

-   **Markdown link with a descriptive label.** Every host (Claude Code, Cowork, Codex, Claude.ai) renders these. Bare URLs render too but read worse.
    -   Good: `[Sales Pipeline base](https://airtable.com/appEXAMPLEbase001)`
    -   Acceptable: `View in Airtable: [Sales Pipeline](https://airtable.com/appEXAMPLEbase001)` — matches Airtable's existing internal handoff label
    -   Bad: `https://airtable.com/appEXAMPLEbase001` — bare URL with no context
-   **One link per response.** For multi-step operations, consolidate at the end rather than after each tool call.
-   **No rich embeds.** Inline chat surfaces don't render OpenGraph cards for Airtable URLs today. Don't structure responses around something the host won't draw.

## Anti-patterns

-   **Don't synthesize IDs.** Every ID in the URL must come verbatim from a tool response. Don't fabricate `viw*`, `tbl*`, `rec*`, `pag*`, or any other identifier to round out a URL — if your tool calls didn't return that ID, the URL slot it'd fill doesn't have a real target.
-   **Don't include `?home=<pagId>` or other query params.** Page-management modes (`/build`, `/edit`, `/preview`) are for page authors, not handoffs from chat.

## Composition

Workflow and methodology skills that create, modify, or return Airtable content should compose this convention at handoff time. Don't re-implement URL construction inline.

In another skill's body:

> _"After completing the work, return a clickable link via the `show-airtable-link` skill. Hand off the most-specific URL the agent's tool calls have proven access to."_

## Examples

**Created a new base for product roadmap:**

> Created your roadmap base with three tables — Roadmap, Feedback, and Releases.
>
> [View Roadmap base in Airtable](https://airtable.com/appEXAMPLEbase001)

**Updated 12 records' Status field:**

> Updated Status to "In Review" on 12 records.
>
> [View Roadmap table in Airtable](https://airtable.com/appEXAMPLEbase001/tblEXAMPLEtable01)

**Returned one record from an interface page (page-restricted user):**

> Found the matching deal: Acme Corp, $50k, Stage = Negotiation.
>
> [View record in Sales pipeline](https://airtable.com/appEXAMPLEbase001/pagEXAMPLEpage001/recEXAMPLErecord1)