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title: Agent Skills
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# Agent Skills

## Overview

bitdrift provides skills for your coding agents: AI-optimized instructions that teach your agent how to use the bitdrift platform. Once installed, your agent can create and deploy workflows, query sessions, triage issues, and more, all without leaving your editor.

!!! info
    bitdrift skills follow the [agentskills.io](https://agentskills.io/){:target="_blank"} open standard, making them compatible with any AI coding agent that supports skills, such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Copilot. They are hosted in the [bitdriftlabs/bd-skills](https://github.com/bitdriftlabs/bd-skills){:target="_blank"} GitHub repository.

## Getting started

We recommend installing bitdrift skills via [skills.sh](https://skills.sh/){:target="_blank"} by running the following command:

```bash
npx skills add bitdriftlabs/bd-skills
```

!!! note
    This uses `npx` for ease of installation which [requires `node`/`npm`](https://docs.npmjs.com/downloading-and-installing-node-js-and-npm){:target="_blank"}. You can install it via homebrew: `brew install node`

For other installation options and further setup instructions, see the `README` at [https://github.com/bitdriftlabs/bd-skills](https://github.com/bitdriftlabs/bd-skills){:target="_blank"}.

## What your agent can do

The skills rely heavily on the capabilities provided by the [`bd` CLI](../../cli/quickstart.md). Once installed, your agent will be able to:

- Authenticate
- Create, deploy, and update workflows
- Query and analyze chart metric data
- Query and analyze session timelines 
- Query issue groups and root-cause crash reports
- Create and manage API and SDK keys
- Query the docs and schema to answer questions

### Examples

- *"Help me diagnose the top 3 crashes for the latest release of my app over the past week."*
- *"Show me sessions where users experienced sharp memory increases that led to out-of-memory errors for my app."*
- *"Which client API calls are using the most network bandwidth in the latest release of my app?"*
- *"Where are users dropping off the most? Show me sessions with the top user journeys that ended in a force quit for my app."*

When you ask questions, the agent uses CLI commands to fetch real data from your bitdrift account.

## Why Agent Skills?

By utilizing an on-demand architecture, skills enable extensive functionality while minimizing context window bloat. The agent autonomously retrieves specific skill sets based on task relevance, dynamically injecting the full operational logic and resources into the workflow at the moment of execution.