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Create a signal

Creates a signal that watches people or companies and records an event on a job change, promotion, new hire, job posting, funding news or topic intent.

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Updated Sep 26, 2026Available asCLI

Description

A signal watches a table view or Audiences segments. Run `clay signals create --help` for the supported types and each one's input shape; custom and web intent signals are set up in the Clay app.

create-signal.md

Create a signal

Creates a signal that watches people or companies and records an event on a job change, promotion, new hire, job posting, funding news or topic intent.

A signal watches a table view or Audiences segments. Run clay signals create --help for the supported types and each one's input shape; custom and web intent signals are set up in the Clay app.

Set up

Use the first option your agent supports.

CLI (official)

Install the command, then confirm it runs.

npm install --global @clay-run/cli
clay --version

Run clay signals create.

Before doing anything else, make one read-only call to confirm access.

Rules

  • Ask the user before anything that sends messages, costs money, or changes data.
  • Never print API keys.

Built from these files in the repository

The layout and the rules come from lib/catalog/render-markdown.ts, the set-up wording from lib/catalog/render-access.ts.

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