Skills for AI agents

This page explains how to use Axiom Skills to give AI coding agents structured investigation capabilities for Axiom.

Axiom Skills are instruction files that give AI coding agents specialized capabilities. Unlike Axiom MCP Server, which provides a standardized protocol for tool discovery and execution, Axiom Skills work by embedding methodology and context directly into the agent’s prompt.

For guidance on when to use Axiom Skills and Axiom MCP Server, see AI agents.

Axiom Skills are open-source and welcome your contributions. For more information, see the GitHub repository.

Available skills

Axiom provides the following skills:

System Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Expert SRE investigator for incidents and debugging with hypothesis-driven methodology

Build dashboards

Design and build Axiom dashboards via API with chart types, APL patterns, and layouts

Control costs

Analyze query patterns, find unused data, and build cost optimization dashboards

Translate SPL to APL

Translate Splunk SPL queries to Axiom APL for migrations

Query metrics

Query and explore OpenTelemetry metrics in Axiom’s MetricsDB using MPL

Install all skills

Install all Axiom skills at once for Claude Code, Cursor, and other Claude-compatible agents:

npx skills add axiomhq/skills

This command automatically detects your agent and installs all available skills to the appropriate location.

To install skills for a specific agent or install individual skills, see the installation instructions on each skill page.