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Connect Claude or Codex and hand off work

Install the plugin, connect MCP, choose brand evidence, and run a saved plan in your AI.

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Before you start

Prepare a supported AI client and AEKO account. MCP connectivity, skill installation, and plan entitlements are separate. Some public-site audit skills work without an AEKO account.

Step by step

  1. Install the plugin (the set of skills). In Claude Desktop, go to Settings → Plugins → Browse plugins → Add marketplace and enter AEKO-Intelligence/aeko-plugin. In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add AEKO-Intelligence/aeko-plugin and then /plugin install aeko-plugin@aeko-plugin. In Codex, find aeko-plugin in the plugin catalog and install it. In Gemini CLI, run gemini extensions install https://github.com/AEKO-Intelligence/aeko-plugin and restart. If you only use the public-site audit skills, you can skip the MCP connection below.
  2. In Claude Desktop, open Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector and enter https://aeko-intelligence.com/mcp. Select Connect and finish AEKO authentication in the browser. Leave the optional OAuth Client ID and Secret blank.
  3. For Claude Code, run claude mcp add --transport http aeko https://aeko-intelligence.com/mcp. For Codex CLI, run codex mcp add --transport http aeko https://aeko-intelligence.com/mcp. If the setup has changed, follow the current connection instructions.
  4. After authentication, check the brands you can access. Distinguish MCP tools from skills, which provide task instructions.
  5. Once connected, type /aeko-start in a new chat or just ask. For example: “How many times did our brand appear in ChatGPT answers last week?”, “Can AI read our site well?”, or “Rewrite this product description so AI can read it.”
  6. Choose target products, prompts, and sources in AEKO, then save the plan or prepare its AI brief.
  7. Load the saved task in Claude or Codex and start execution there. Connecting MCP or saving a plan does not start a desktop agent automatically.
  8. Review returned drafts and analysis against their evidence. Confirm results and permissions before publication or ad delivery.

Check the result

MCP connects tools; skills provide task instructions. The 30+ brand skill documents also include hosted documents, so that count is not the installed plugin’s command count.

If something goes wrong

  • Reauthenticate the AEKO connection in your client when authorization expires.
  • Follow the skill’s capability check when tools are missing. Knowing a command does not grant execution access.
  • Customer-plugin scheduled loops read and propose. They do not imply automatic execution of every marketing write.

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