Auto-approve Skool membership requests

1. Skool sends admins a membership request alert only if the [Admin only] Membership request option is on under profile picture > Settings > Notifications.
2. In the group, admins and moderators open each pending applicant and read the Membership Questions answers along with the bio, location and profile picture Skool shows for each request.
3. Each applicant gets an approve or decline click by hand; a clear spammer gets banned from Members > MEMBERSHIP ⚙️ > Ban from group so the account cannot request access again.
4. Once a member is approved, the answers move to Members > MEMBERSHIP SETTINGS > Questions, or to the Export button on the Members tab.
5. The queue refills after every ad push, and Skool's own Plugins guide says that waiting for approval makes a lead-magnet visitor less likely to ever view what they joined for.

Go through pending Skool membership requests in yourgroup. Approve applicants whose answers name a business they run, decline obvious spam, and leave everyone else for me with a one-line reason.

1. 01

   Read the whole queue first

   Your agent pulls every pending request with list_membership_requests and pages through the cursor until the queue is empty, so a long weekend backlog is judged as one batch instead of the first page only.

2. 02

   Apply your rule to the answers

   Each applicant is matched against the rule in your prompt, for example "names a business they run" or "chose Agency owner on question 2". The agent quotes the answer it relied on, so you can see why each person passed.

3. 03

   Sort into three piles

   Clear matches go to approve, clear spam (links in every answer, empty or copied text, an email question filled with nonsense) goes to decline, and anything ambiguous stays pending with a short note for you.

4. 04

   Approve, then decline

   approve_membership_request runs for the matches first, so good applicants get in even if you stop the run halfway; decline_membership_request runs only for the spam pile. Both ask for your OK per call until you switch confirmation off for them.

5. 05

   Skip what already changed

   Right before each click, the agent checks that the request is still pending. One that another admin or moderator handled in the meantime is logged as already handled, never acted on twice.

Pending requests in yourgroup: 23
Approved 14 (answers name a business, e.g. Tom Becker: "SaaS for dental clinics")
Declined 4 (same promo link in all three answers)
Left for you 5:
- Maria Silva: "still deciding what to build"
- Jake Ortiz: answered only the email question
Already handled by a moderator: 0

• Skool allows up to three Membership Questions per group, answered as a text box, multiple choice or email address, and only one of them can be an email question.
• Skool lets moderators view Membership Questions answers and approve or decline new members, so a moderator account is enough for this job.
• Skool's AutoMod flags high-risk accounts for admins to review, and Skool recommends banning flagged free members rather than letting them in.
• A Skool ban stops the account from requesting to join the group again, and Skool's Ban and Delete Last 7 Days of Activity option removes its recent posts and comments in the same step.
• Skool's AutoDM, a Pro-plan plugin, reaches each approved member within 1 to 5 minutes of joining, so the welcome needs no extra step.

approve_membership_request and decline_membership_request ask for your OK by default. To run it daily without you, switch confirmation off for those tools in your dashboard.

Sources: Skool Help: How to set up Membership Questions · Skool Help: How to manage spam (AutoMod) · Skool Help: How to use Plugins · Skool Help: Where to find answers to Membership Questions

curl https://cotlet.dev/api/v1/skool/approve_membership_request \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $COTLET_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"group":"yourgroup","request_id":"r_51e0aa"}'

{
  "request_id": "r_51e0aa",
  "status": "approved",
  "member_id": "m_9d02f7"
}

MCP: add https://cotlet.dev/mcp/v1 with the same key; the tool is skool_approve_membership_request. Example data.

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