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title: "Connect Shade to Nextdns - APIANT.ai"
description: "When \"Asset Updated\" fires in Shade, your agent runs \"Add allowlist domain\" in Nextdns."
canonical: "https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-nextdns"
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# Connect Shade to Nextdns

When **Asset Updated** fires in [Shade](https://apiant.ai/connections/shade), your agent runs **Add allowlist domain** in [Nextdns](https://apiant.ai/connections/nextdns). Describe the whole flow and it is built, tested on every scenario and kept running.

Shade **7** triggers Shade **7** actions Nextdns **13** actions

What the catalog holds today. Ask for anything missing and your agent reads the API documentation and adds it.

## What do you want Shade and Nextdns to do together?

Give your AI client this address.

`https://mcp.apiant.ai`

One connection does both: ask your client to act in an app once, or have it build an automation that keeps running. Any client that takes a remote MCP server. Nothing to install. Create your free account, then sign in once in your browser.

### Set it up in your client

### Claude Code

Run this in the directory you want to work in.

`claude mcp add --transport http -s project apiant-ai https://mcp.apiant.ai`

Start Claude Code there, approve the server, and sign in in the browser page it opens.

[Claude Code guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp/claude-code)

### Claude, web and desktop

Open Customize, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste the address. On Team and Enterprise an owner adds it first.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Cursor

Add the address to your MCP configuration as a server URL. Cursor signs you in in your browser.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Zed

Open Settings, then AI, then MCP Servers, then Add Server, then Add Remote Server.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Codex and the ChatGPT desktop app

Open Settings, then MCP servers, then Add server, and choose Streamable HTTP. From the terminal, Codex takes the address with its own add command and then signs you in.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

### Any other MCP client

Paste the address where the client asks for a remote MCP server URL, and name the server apiant-ai where it lets you. APIANT's skills reach the client over the same connection.

[Setup guide (opens in a new tab)](https://apiant.ai/docs/mcp)

Example flows

## What Shade can start in Nextdns

- When **Asset Updated** in Shade then **Add allowlist domain** in Nextdns
- When **New Asset** in Shade then **Add denylist domain** in Nextdns

Starting points drawn from the triggers and actions in the catalog today. Describe the flow you need, at any depth, and your agent builds it and tests every scenario before it ships.

Everything your agent can do with Shade and Nextdns

## Triggers and actions 7 triggers · 20 actions

- Trigger

**Asset Updated**

Triggers when an asset in the Shade drive and folder you select is added or changed.

- Trigger

**New Asset**

Triggers when a new asset appears in the Shade drive and folder you select.

- Trigger

**New Collection**

Triggers when a new collection is created in the Shade drive you select.

- Trigger

**New Drive**

Triggers when a new drive is created in the Shade workspace you select.

- Trigger

**New Public Share Link**

Triggers when a new public share link is created in the Shade drive you select.

- Trigger

**New Transcription**

Triggers when an asset in the Shade drive and folder you select finishes transcription.

- Trigger

**Public Share Link Updated**

Triggers when a public share link in the Shade drive you select is created or changed.

- Action

**Copy a File**

Copies a file or folder to another location within the same Shade drive.

- Action

**Create Folder**

Creates a folder at the path you supply in a Shade drive.

- Action

**Find an Asset**

Returns the assets in a Shade drive that match the text you search for, optionally narrowed by precision filters.

- Action

**Get Public Links for a File or Folder**

Returns the public share links that exist for a file or folder in a Shade drive.

- Action

**Search Asset Chunks**

Search a Shade drive and get back matching assets together with the specific chunks (subclips, document passages, image regions) that matched, with a relevance floor you control per media type.

- Action

**Search for an Asset by Description**

Searches a Shade drive with a plain-language description and returns the assets that match, using Shade's AI index.

- Action

**Share File or Folder**

Shares a file or folder in a Shade drive with the people you list, at the role you choose. Each person is emailed an invitation.

- Action

**Add allowlist domain**

Add a domain to a profile's allowlist.

- Action

**Add denylist domain**

Adds a domain to a NextDNS profile's Denylist so DNS queries for it are blocked.

- Action

**Add profile**

Creates a new NextDNS profile, optionally with its security, privacy, parental control, denylist, allowlist and settings configuration.

- Action

**Clear logs**

Clears all DNS query logs for a NextDNS profile.

- Action

**Delete allowlist domain**

Remove a domain from a profile's allowlist.

- Action

**Delete denylist domain**

Removes a domain from a NextDNS profile's denylist.

- Action

**Delete profile**

Deletes a NextDNS profile by its ID.

- Action

**Get profile**

Retrieve a NextDNS profile by id.

- Action

**List allowlist domains**

List domains on a profile's allowlist.

- Action

**List denylist domains**

Lists the domains on a NextDNS profile's denylist.

- Action

**List profiles**

Lists the profiles in the connected NextDNS account.

- Action

**Update performance settings**

Update a profile's performance settings (ECS, cache boost, CNAME flattening).

- Action

**Update profile**

Updates an existing NextDNS profile by ID. Only the sections you fill in are changed.

## Each app on its own

- [ **Shade** Shade is an AI-powered cloud NAS for media teams that enables real-time editing, natural language search...](https://apiant.ai/connections/shade)
- [ **Nextdns** Cloud-based DNS filtering service for blocking malware, ads, and trackers, with an API to manage profiles...](https://apiant.ai/connections/nextdns)

Reviews

## What our customers say

## More from Shade

- [ **Shade to Loop & Tie** Loop & Tie is a gifting-at-scale engagement platform, which allows gifters to send a list of curated gifts...](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-loop-tie)
- [ **Shade to Stripe** Stripe is a payment processing platform for online businesses.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-stripe)
- [ **Shade to Shopify** Shopify is a commerce platform for online stores and retail point-of-sale.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-shopify)
- [ **Shade to Airtable** Organize anything with Airtable, a modern database created for everyone.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-airtable)
- [ **Shade to Trello** Trello is a visual collaboration tool that organizes projects into boards, lists, and cards.](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-trello)
- [ **Shade to Zoom** Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, group messaging, and a software-based...](https://apiant.ai/connect/shade-to-zoom)

## More into Nextdns

- [ **HubSpot to Nextdns** HubSpot is your all-in-one stop for all of your marketing software needs.](https://apiant.ai/connect/hubspot-to-nextdns)
- [ **Pushbullet to Nextdns** Pushbullet lets you send and receive pushes (notes, links, files) across your devices and to people, and...](https://apiant.ai/connect/pushbullet-to-nextdns)
- [ **Telegram to Nextdns** Telegram is a cloud-based instant messaging and voice over IP service developed by Telegram Messenger LLP.](https://apiant.ai/connect/telegram-to-nextdns)
- [ **Salesforce to Nextdns** Salesforce is a leading enterprise customer relationship management (CRM) platform.](https://apiant.ai/connect/salesforce-to-nextdns)
- [ **Slack to Nextdns** Slack is a messaging platform for teams. Post messages, manage channels, users, reminders, and react to...](https://apiant.ai/connect/slack-to-nextdns)
- [ **Google Sheets to Nextdns** Google Sheets is Google's online spreadsheet app for creating, editing and sharing spreadsheets.](https://apiant.ai/connect/google-sheets-to-nextdns)

Questions

## Shade and Nextdns, answered

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### What can start an automation from Shade?

Any of Shade's 7 triggers in the catalog, including Asset Updated, New Asset, New Collection and New Drive. Describe the moment in plain language and your agent picks the right one.

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### What can your agent do in Nextdns when something happens in Shade?

Any of Nextdns's 13 actions, including Update performance settings, Update profile, Add allowlist domain and Add denylist domain. Your agent maps the data both ways and tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Can it also run from Nextdns to Shade?

Nextdns has no triggers in the catalog today, so automations start in Shade. If you need the other direction, ask: your agent reads Nextdns's API documentation and adds it.

###

### Do I have to build a connector for Shade or Nextdns?

No. Both are in the catalog with their triggers and actions. You describe the automation; your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running.

###

### Can my AI client use Shade and Nextdns without building an automation?

Yes. With your AI client connected to APIANT, ask it to do something in either app once and it runs that action on the spot. Ask for an automation and your agent builds it, tests every scenario and keeps it running. One connection covers both.

###

### What happens when something fails?

Your agent works that out for you. It plans the failure paths along with the happy path, then tests every scenario before it ships.

###

### Is there a free plan?

Yes. Every plan includes the agent, including free, and building from your own AI client spends no assistant credits.
