skill

Turnstile Spin

Set up, repair, or migrate to Cloudflare Turnstile bot verification in an existing frontend and backend, including server-side Siteverify.

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# Turnstile Spin skill

Turns the prompt "set up Turnstile" into a working end-to-end integration: a widget, frontend snippets at every chosen insertion point, canonical server-side siteverify in the customer's existing backend, and a real validation pass before reporting success.

You are the agent. Run the wizard below by invoking the scripts under `scripts/` and branching on their JSON output. The scripts hold the deterministic logic (API calls, retry/error handling); your job is orchestration, codebase reading, confirmation, and the frontend + backend edits.

This file is the canonical machine-readable behavior. Product requirements come from the [Turnstile documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/), and the hosted prompt must mirror this behavior.

## Framework references

Read the reference for the existing frontend when wiring the integration:

| Frontend | Reference | |---|---| | Vanilla HTML | [vanilla-html](references/vanilla-html.md) | | Next.js App Router | [nextjs-app](references/nextjs-app.md) | | Next.js Pages Router | [nextjs-pages](references/nextjs-pages.md) | | Astro | [astro](references/astro.md) | | SvelteKit | [sveltekit](references/sveltekit.md) | | Hugo | [hugo](references/hugo.md) |

## When to load this skill

Load when the user's prompt mentions any of:

- "Turnstile", "CAPTCHA", "bot protection" - "siteverify", "cf-turnstile-response" - "protect this form", "protect this endpoint", "protect this button", "stop bot signups", "spam signups", "block bots on <target>" - A specific signup, login, contact form, download, comment, API endpoint, or other user-triggered request combined with "Cloudflare" or "bot"

Do not load for unrelated Cloudflare tasks (Workers, Pages, R2, etc.) unless Turnstile is also mentioned.

## Choose the flow before responding

Inspect the user's prompt before starting the numbered wizard. If it says the widget is already created and provides one or more sitekeys, go directly to the existing-widget flow below. Do not run, summarize, or propose the widget-creation flow. Otherwise, use the numbered creation wizard.

## Conversation flow

The user pasted the prompt. You are in a multi-step dialog. Detect what you can, ask only when you have to, confirm before every irreversible step. Each numbered moment is one agent message. Items marked **[wait for user]** require a user response.

1. **Brief acknowledge.** One sentence: "I'll run Turnstile setup end to end. That's: check auth, scan the codebase, create the widget, embed it where visitor requests need verification, wire server-side siteverify, validate. Proceed?" **[wait for user]** Do NOT present a plan yet. Auth + scan come first.

2. **CLI check.** Spin's helper scripts use `curl` against `api.cloudflare.com`. Account enumeration requires either an explicit `$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID` or a user-approved canonical absolute `WRANGLER_BIN` outside the project with exact `WRANGLER_VERSION`. Never use `npx`, `pnpm exec`, a package script, a project-local binary, or an unapproved executable for a credential-bearing command. Never install Wrangler automatically during the flow.

3. **Auth + scope probe (FIRST irreversible action).** Run `scripts/auth-probe.sh`. If account enumeration needs Wrangler, set `PROJECT_ROOT`, approved canonical `WRANGLER_BIN`, and exact `WRANGLER_VERSION` first. Branch on `status`: - `ok`: continue to Step 4. The script already picked the account (single-account token, or one matching `$CLOUDFLARE_ACCOUNT_ID`). - `missing_token` or `missing_scope`: ask the user to create a token at https://dash.cloudflare.com/profile/api-tokens → Custom token → permission `Account.Turnstile:Edit` → include the target account in Account Resources. **Do NOT direct them to `wrangler login`** unless wrangler's OAuth scope includes `Account.Turnstile:Edit` (varies by wrangler version). Offer two ways to provide the token without chat, cleanest first: 1. **Export + relaunch** (token enters neither chat nor shell history): `read -rsp 'Cloudflare API token: ' token; echo; export CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN="$token"; unset token`, then restart the agent from that terminal. 2. **Save to file** (token in a user-only file): `umask 077; read -rsp 'Cloudflare API token: ' token; echo; printf '%s' "$token" > ~/.cf-turnstile-token; unset token`, then load it without printing it. Do not ask the user to paste the API token into chat. When auth is established, re-run `auth-probe.sh` and resume from Step 4. - `network_failure`: the probe could not reach `api.cloudflare.com`. Show the diagnostic (VPN/proxy, TLS interception, DNS). Do not treat this as a scope problem. Ask the user to fix connectivity, then re-run `auth-probe.sh`. - `upstream_failure`: the API returned an unexpected response (`http_code` non-4xx). Do not assume the token is bad. Show the code, ask the user to retry after a brief wait, and re-run `auth-probe.sh`. - `multiple_accounts`: the token covers more than one accoun

Install

Run this command

npx skills add cloudflare/skills

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Manual steps

Install with `npx skills add cloudflare/skills`, or clone the repository and copy the `skills/turnstile-spin` folder into your Claude skills directory.

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