CloudSkills

The open-source community registry of AI skills for cloud engineering.
Browse, install, and contribute skills that run on CloudThinker.

     

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What is CloudSkills?

CloudSkills is the open-source registry powering the Skills Hub on CloudThinker. Each skill is a SKILL.md file — a structured instruction set that tells AI agents how to execute a specific cloud engineering task.

Skills are composable, guardrailed, and ready to deploy. They encode tribal knowledge — runbooks, SOPs, and expert workflows — into reusable AI instructions that run autonomously with human approval gates where needed.

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Skill Categories

Cloud Connection Skills (804+)

Skills that operate on your connected cloud infrastructure and services.

Category	Examples	Count
Cloud Providers	AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Oracle OCI, Linode, IBM Cloud, Alibaba, Vultr, Scaleway	40+
CI/CD & GitOps	Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux, Tekton, Buildkite, CircleCI, Spinnaker	25+
Containers & Orchestration	Docker, Helm, Istio, Linkerd, Cilium, Kustomize, Rancher, OpenShift, Podman	30+
Infrastructure as Code	Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible, CloudFormation, CDK, Crossplane, Puppet, Chef	30+
Databases & Caches	PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, Cassandra, ClickHouse, Pinecone, Weaviate	60+
Observability & Monitoring	Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, New Relic, Dynatrace, Honeycomb, Zabbix, OpenTelemetry	50+
Security & Compliance	Snyk, Trivy, Vault, Falco, CrowdStrike, Prisma Cloud, Drata, Vanta, Checkov	60+
Networking & CDN	Nginx, Cloudflare, HAProxy, CoreDNS, Tailscale, Fastly, Akamai, Kong	30+
Data Engineering & Analytics	Airflow, dbt, Spark, Flink, Snowflake, BigQuery, Segment, Mixpanel, Tableau	40+
AI/ML Platforms	SageMaker, Vertex AI, MLflow, Kubeflow, Hugging Face, OpenAI, Anthropic	25+
Serverless & Edge	Lambda, Cloud Functions, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Netlify, Fly.io, Deno Deploy	30+
Developer Tools	SonarQube, Turborepo, Bazel, Codecov, Pre-commit, Renovate, Semantic Release	30+
Incident Management	PagerDuty, OpsGenie, incident.io, FireHydrant, Rootly, Grafana OnCall	25+
IT Service Management	ServiceNow, Zendesk, Freshservice, Jira Service Management, GLPI	15+
Feature Flags	LaunchDarkly, Split.io, Flagsmith, Unleash, GrowthBook, Statsig	12+
Code Review	GitHub PR Reviews, GitLab MRs, Gerrit, CodeRabbit, CodeScene, Sourcery	15+
Identity & Access	Okta, Auth0, Keycloak, AWS IAM, Azure Entra, CyberArk	15+
Communication & Collaboration	Slack, Teams, Discord, Notion, Confluence, Jira, Trello, Linear	30+
Workflow Automation	Zapier, Temporal, n8n, Windmill, Pipedream, Power Automate	20+
Low-Code & CMS	Appsmith, Retool, Strapi, Contentful, Sanity, Directus	15+
FinOps & Cost	Kubecost, Infracost, Spot.io, Cast AI, Vantage, CloudHealth	15+
Storage & Backup	MinIO, Ceph, Velero, S3, Cloudflare R2, Backblaze B2	15+
Package Registries	npm, PyPI, Cargo, NuGet, Docker Hub, Harbor, Artifactory	15+

Template Skills (200+)

Reusable workflow templates for common cloud engineering processes.

Category	Examples	Count
Deployment	Deployment Checklist, Blue-Green, Canary, Zero-Downtime Migration	15+
Incident Response	Incident Runbook, Severity Classification, War Room Protocol, Root Cause Analysis	25+
Security & Compliance	Security Audit, SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, CIS Benchmarks, Threat Modeling	15+
Code Review	PR Review Checklist, Security Code Review, Performance Review, IaC Review	15+
IT HelpDesk	Employee Onboarding/Offboarding, Access Requests, VPN Troubleshooting, Asset Management	15+
SRE & Reliability	SLO Workshop, Error Budget Review, Chaos Engineering, Alert Fatigue Reduction	15+
Architecture & Design	System Design Document, ADR Template, RFC Template, API Contract Review	15+
Cost Optimization	Cost Optimization Report, FinOps Maturity Assessment, Capacity Planning	10+
Team & Process	Sprint Retrospective, OKR Tracking, Onboarding Checklist, Knowledge Transfer	15+
Performance	Load Testing Plan, Database Tuning, CDN Optimization, Caching Strategy Review	10+

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Installing a Skill

One-click via CloudThinker

Visit cloudthinker.io/skills, find a skill, and click Install. The skill is copied directly into your workspace — no GitHub dependency at runtime.

Manually

Copy a SKILL.md into your project's skills directory:

mkdir -p .claude/skills/aws
curl -o .claude/skills/aws/SKILL.md \
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudthinker-ai/CloudSkills/main/skills/connections/aws/SKILL.md

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Skill Format

Every skill is a single SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter:

---
name: my-skill
description: |
  What this skill does and when to invoke it.
connection_type: aws   # optional — required connection
---

# My Skill

Step-by-step instructions for the AI agent...

Field	Required	Description
name	Yes	Kebab-case identifier matching the directory name
description	Yes	Purpose and context for when to use this skill
connection_type	—	Required cloud connection (e.g. aws, k8s, github)

Connection skills (skills/connections/) integrate with specific tools and services via API keys, CLI tools, or OAuth connections.

Template skills (skills/templates/) provide structured workflows, checklists, and runbooks that guide agents through multi-step processes.

See SPEC.md for the full specification.

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Contributing

We welcome skills that encode real-world cloud engineering expertise.

1. Fork this repository
2. Create skills/connections/<your-skill>/SKILL.md or skills/templates/<your-skill>/SKILL.md
3. Open a pull request — CI validates your skill automatically
4. After merge, the skill appears on CloudThinker within 1 hour

Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the quality checklist and review process.

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License

MIT — see LICENSE

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