About agent skills

Use agent skills so your coding agent applies Veracity conventions for authentication, API calls, and service account configuration without you explaining them in every prompt.

Agent skills teach your AI agent Veracity-specific patterns once, then reuse that knowledge across every project. When you install a skill, your agent helps apply the correct Veracity conventions from the first interaction.

What a skill is

A skill is a Markdown file you place in your repository at a path your agent reads. It contains instructions, constraints, and examples scoped to a specific task. The agent loads the file when it recognises a relevant task and applies the instructions to its output.

Skills follow the open agentskills.io specification. Any agent that supports project-level instruction files can read them: such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code.

Skills work alongside the MCP server

Skills define how to implement something. The Veracity MCP server provides current documentation for what the implementation should contain. Used together, your agent follows the correct pattern and checks its work against live Veracity documentation.

Available skills

The Veracity Agent Skills repository provides eight public skills covering Veracity's core platform integrations: scaffolding and securing .NET, Node.js, and Python backends, and React frontends, with Veracity authentication.

See Common AI tasks for worked examples using prompts, and Working safely for guidance on credentials, tenancy, and regulated data.