Cisco Agent Skills

Reusable Agent Skills for Cisco products, solutions, and technologies. Each skill is a self-contained folder with a SKILL.md file that compatible coding agents load only when a request matches its description.

The initial catalog includes:

• Cisco IOS and IOS XE operational patterns
• Cisco Security Cloud Control Firewall Manager (SCCFM) CLI and Ansible skills
• Product namespaces for Meraki, ThousandEyes, Cisco Modeling Labs (CML), cloud security, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and Cisco Intersight

Product namespaces are scaffolds, not claims of product coverage. A namespace is listed as available only when it contains at least one reviewed SKILL.md.

Installation

The remote for this project is CiscoDevNet/skills. The npx and marketplace options require that repository to be published and accessible.

Option 1: npx skills

Use the community installer with any Agent Skills-compatible client:

# Preview discovered skills
npx skills add CiscoDevNet/skills --list

# Install one skill
npx skills add CiscoDevNet/skills --skill cisco-ios-patterns

# Install all skills
npx skills add CiscoDevNet/skills --all

Option 2: Claude Code Marketplace

/plugin marketplace add CiscoDevNet/skills
/plugin install ios@cisco-skills
/plugin install sccfm@cisco-skills

Other product plugins can be installed with /plugin install <product>@cisco-skills after that product contains a reviewed skill.

Option 3: Clone and copy manually

git clone https://github.com/CiscoDevNet/skills.git cisco-agent-skills

# Copy one product catalog into a project-level skills directory
cp -R cisco-agent-skills/skills/ios/* .agents/skills/

# Or copy one skill
cp -R cisco-agent-skills/skills/sccfm/sccfm-cli .agents/skills/

Use the equivalent directory for your client, such as .claude/skills/, .cursor/skills/, or .github/skills/.

Repository layout

.
├── .agents/plugins/marketplace.json    # cross-agent marketplace catalog
├── .claude-plugin/marketplace.json     # Claude Code marketplace catalog
├── plugins/<product>/                  # installable product plugin packages
│   ├── .claude-plugin/plugin.json
│   └── skills/<skill>/SKILL.md
├── skills/<product>/<skill>/SKILL.md   # portable canonical catalog
├── spec/authoring-guide.md
├── template/skill-template/SKILL.md
└── scripts/validate_skills.py

The skills/ tree is optimized for open-standard discovery and manual installation. The plugins/ tree packages the same reviewed content for marketplace clients. Run the repository validation before opening a pull request to ensure mirrored copies have not drifted.

Authoring and security

Read the authoring guide before adding a skill. Examples must use placeholders instead of real credentials, default to read-only discovery, and require explicit review before potentially disruptive changes.

This repository follows the open Agent Skills specification. Security guidance should also be checked against CoSAI Project CodeGuard. CodeGuard is linked as an upstream reference; vendoring or running its MCP server is optional and is not required to use these skills.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md, SECURITY.md, and CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md. Imported material and source commits are recorded in SOURCES.md.

License

Licensed under Apache 2.0. See Apache License 2.0. LICENSE. Third-party source attribution is recorded in SOURCES.md.