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Chainguard Agent Skills overview

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Chainguard Agent Skills is a catalog of hardened AI agent skills that Chainguard reviews, scopes, and publishes with a full audit trail. It lets teams extend their AI agents without extending their attack surface.

Note: Chainguard Agent Skills is in beta. Available to Chainguard Containers customers who sign up for the beta program. You can sign up by visiting the Chainguard Agent Skills product page and clicking Join the beta.

What is an agent skill?

An agent skill is a small, modular instruction set — typically a single SKILL.md file — that extends what an AI agent can do. Agents such as Claude Code use skills to perform tasks like browser automation, database management, and code generation.

Getting started with the Chainguard Skills Registry

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The Chainguard Skills Registry lets you publish, manage, and distribute skills scoped to your organization. Skills are stored as OCI artifacts at skills.cgr.dev/<your-org>/<skill-name>:<tag> and managed with chainctl.

This guide walks through the full workflow, including how to enable the registry for your org, then push, install, and run a skill.

Note: Chainguard Skills Registry is in beta.

Prerequisites

To follow this guide, you need:

Getting started with the Chainguard Agent Skills public catalog

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Chainguard publishes a curated set of hardened agent skills in a public catalog at skills.cgr.dev/chainguard. Anyone with chainctl can browse and install them — no entitlement and no legal terms required. The Chainguard Agent Skills public catalog is pull-only: you can install skills from the catalog, but you can’t push your own skills to it.

This guide walks through the full workflow: listing the available skills, inspecting one, pulling it to audit how Chainguard hardened it, installing it, and running it with an agent.