Skills and rules
Give agents both the how and the guardrails. Skills package the procedures your team repeats, and rules keep every agent aligned with the standards you already hold people to.
Capture both once, then apply them wherever Assistant, gcx, MCP integrations, or automations pick up the work.
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Skills
When work depends on team-specific knowledge, package it. Agent Skills turn procedures, examples, and constraints into repeatable agent work.
Use a skill when a generic assistant would need to relearn the same context every time.
- Capture the procedures, source material, and decision points your team already uses.
- Give the assistant examples of good work and boundaries it should not cross.
- Reuse the same skill from the Assistant, the gcx command line tool, and Automations.
Rules
Agents need the same working agreements as people. Rules keep Grafana AI aligned with your team's standards and guardrails.
Capture conventions once, then apply them wherever Assistant, gcx, MCP integrations, or automations pick up work.
- Encode naming, security, review, and delivery steps your team already follows.
- Keep agent output inside the boundaries you set for each kind of work.
- Apply the same expectations across the Assistant, the gcx command line tool, and MCP integrations.
Together, skills and rules turn tribal knowledge into repeatable work you can review. Ground them in the Knowledge Graph and schedule them with Automations.