Switch from ManyChat in 10 minutes

You can move from ManyChat to AgentChat without a single reel going quiet. ManyChat keeps running until each automation is live in AgentChat, and nobody gets the same DM twice.

The fastest way: one prompt in Claude Code

Paste this into Claude Code. Claude installs the AgentChat plugin, tells you what it needs and walks you through every step.

Prompt for Claude Code

Install AgentChat for me: run claude plugin marketplace add epictaste/agentchat-skills and claude plugin install agentchat@agentchat, then help me log in and move me off ManyChat with /agentchat:manychat.

Before you start: switch on Claude in Chrome and log in to ManyChat in that browser. Claude only reads ManyChat.

1. Connect AgentChat, keep ManyChat on

Connect Instagram and add AgentChat as a connector in Claude, ChatGPT or Codex with the URL https://agentchat.georgkinzel.de/mcp. Leave ManyChat as it is for now. Details: Docs.

2. Export from ManyChat

A browser agent reads your automations and your contacts in ManyChat and saves the contacts as a CSV. Nothing in ManyChat changes. No browser agent? Paste screenshots or a list, or ask “Suggest automations from my captions”.

3. Check the preview

All automations are created as drafts, which answer nothing yet. For each one you see the public reply, the DM with its button and link, and whether the link works. Then your contacts are imported, first as a dry run.

4. Go live

Say “go live” and all drafts switch on together. ManyChat still runs for a moment. If both reply to the same comment, AgentChat sees that your account already answered and skips it.

5. Remove ManyChat in Instagram

In the Instagram app: Settings → App and website permissions → Apps and websites → ManyChat → Remove. That stops every ManyChat automation at once, you do not pause them one by one. Your automations stay in ManyChat: if you ever want to go back, connect Instagram in ManyChat again.

6. Finish

Tell your agent “ManyChat is removed”. It switches on the follower check and the buttons, answers comments from the switch that nobody answered yet and loads your DM history.

Why the follower check waits until the end

Instagram lets only one tool own a conversation. While ManyChat is connected, it owns them, and AgentChat may send exactly one private reply per comment. That is why your automations start in a transition mode: the link goes out directly in that one reply. Follower check, buttons, email capture and reminders are saved and switch on when you finish the migration. If a message fails because another app (often ManyChat, sometimes an older Meta app) owns the conversation, the dashboard shows a warning.

Prompt for a browser agent

Copy this into Claude in Chrome or Codex (browser) while you are logged in to ManyChat. It only reads ManyChat and changes nothing there. No connector at hand? It stops after reading and gives you the JSON; add the connector (Docs) and let your assistant import it.

Prompt

Help me move my Instagram comment automations from ManyChat to AgentChat. I am logged in to ManyChat in this browser. AgentChat is connected to you as a connector (MCP).

Rules for ManyChat: only read. Do not click Save, Publish, Pause, Delete, Duplicate or any toggle. Do not change, pause or delete anything. If a dialog asks to save changes, choose discard. Do not send messages to anyone.

1. Open https://app.manychat.com, go to Automation and find every automation that is triggered by a comment on an Instagram post or reel.
2. Open each one read-only and note: name, the trigger keywords (or that it reacts to any comment), which post or reel (the Instagram link if shown, otherwise a unique part of the caption, or "next post"), all public reply variants under the comment, the DM text, the button text and the link (URL), whether it checks that the person follows the account and the text non-followers get, whether it asks for an email, and whether it is active.
3. Build exactly this JSON, one object per automation. Leave out fields you could not find and never invent a link:
{"automations": [{"name": "GUIDE reel", "trigger": "comment", "permalink": "https://www.instagram.com/reel/ABC123/", "keywords": ["GUIDE"], "public_replies": ["Sent you the link {username} 📩"], "link_text": "Here is your guide 👇", "link_button": "Open guide", "link_url": "https://example.com/guide", "follow_gate": false, "email_gate": false, "active": true}], "dry_run": true}
   - No reel link: use "caption_contains" with a unique part of the caption instead of "permalink". "Next post": use "next_post": true.
   - Reacts to every comment: "match_mode": "any" and no keywords.
   - The first DM already has the link button: put its text into "link_text" and the button into "link_button". The first DM only has a button that leads to a second DM with the link: first DM into "opening_text" and "opening_button", second DM into "link_text" and "link_button".
   - Follow gate: "follow_gate": true, the text for non-followers into "gate_text", its button into "gate_button". Email question: "email_gate": true and the question into "email_text".
   - Inactive in ManyChat: "active": false.
4. Call the AgentChat tool import_automations with this JSON (dry_run true). Show me per automation the post it found, warnings and errors. Fix what you can and run the dry run again.
5. When I say OK, call import_automations with "dry_run": false. The automations are created as drafts and answer nothing yet. Show me preview_automation for each one, including broken links.
6. When I approve, call go_live with the import_batch from the result. Then give me the manychat_pause_checklist (name, keyword, reel) so I pause each one in ManyChat myself, and run the gap_fill calls from the go_live result.

If the AgentChat connector is not available: stop after step 3, give me the JSON and tell me to add AgentChat as a connector first (URL https://agentchat.georgkinzel.de/mcp, guide https://agentchat.georgkinzel.de/docs#connect).

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