clerk

# Clerk

Clerk is a user management and authentication platform for web and mobile applications. Developers use it to easily add features like sign-up, sign-in, and user profile management to their apps without building them from scratch.

Official docs: https://clerk.com/docs

## Clerk Overview

- **User**
  - **Email Address**
- **Organization**
- **Session**
- **Identification**
- **Domain**

Use action names and parameters as needed.

## Working with Clerk

This skill uses the Membrane CLI to interact with Clerk. Membrane handles authentication and credentials refresh automatically — so you can focus on the integration logic rather than auth plumbing.

### Install the CLI

Install the Membrane CLI so you can run `membrane` from the terminal:

```bash
npm install -g @membranehq/cli
```

### First-time setup

```bash
membrane login --tenant
```

A browser window opens for authentication.

**Headless environments:** Run the command, copy the printed URL for the user to open in a browser, then complete with `membrane login complete <code>`.

### Connecting to Clerk

1. **Create a new connection:**
   ```bash
   membrane search clerk --elementType=connector --json
   ```
   Take the connector ID from `output.items[0].element?.id`, then:
   ```bash
   membrane connect --connectorId=CONNECTOR_ID --json
   ```
   The user completes authentication in the browser. The output contains the new connection id.

### Getting list of existing connections
When you are not sure if connection already exists:
1. **Check existing connections:**
   ```bash
   membrane connection list --json
   ```
   If a Clerk connection exists, note its `connectionId`


### Searching for actions

When you know what you want to do but not the exact action ID:

```bash
membrane action list --intent=QUERY --connectionId=CONNECTION_ID --json
```
This will return action objects with id and inputSchema in it, so you will know how to run it.


## Popular actions

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