Last week's Marketo Program Documentation skill demo combines two MCPs — our allGood MCP and Adobe's new Marketo MCP — to produce the polished documentation you saw at the end of the video.
That polish is what a Claude skill adds. But you don't need a skill to get value out of the Marketo MCP. The MCP tools work on their own, in any chat, with no setup beyond connecting the MCP server.
This short demo shows exactly that.
What the demo covers
Three prompts. No skill. Just direct Marketo MCP tool calls.
1. Look up a program
"Look up the Claude Demo program."
Claude doesn't reach for a skill — it calls a single Marketo MCP tool, get_program_by_name, and returns the program details.
2. List the smart campaigns inside
"Get all the smart campaigns in this program."
Another direct MCP call. Claude finds eight smart campaigns in the demo program and lists them.
3. Build a markdown table
"Create a markdown table with the names and a short description of what each campaign does."
Three prompts in, you have a clean inventory of every smart campaign in the program — names, descriptions, ready to paste anywhere. No clicking through Marketo, no skill in the loop.
When to reach for a skill vs. the raw MCP
Think of MCP tools as the quick, chat-based path. Useful when you want a one-off answer, a fast check, or to pull a specific piece of data out of the instance without leaving the conversation.
Skills are the polished layer on top. They own longer end-to-end workflows. The Program Documentation skill wraps a sequence of MCP calls — across both the allGood and Marketo MCPs — into a single prompt that produces a full documentation pack with overview, asset inventory, logic flow, QA flags, and a one-paragraph plain-English summary.
Both have their place. The MCP gets you most of the way there in chat. The skill takes you to a polished deliverable.
Get started
If you haven't connected the Marketo MCP yet, our setup guide walks through the gotchas in under five minutes.
Then explore the rest of our free Claude skills for marketers — every one of them is built on top of the same MCP tools you just saw in action.
