Netlify Skills

Netlify Skills are focused, factual references for Netlify platform primitives — designed to help AI coding agents build correctly on Netlify without needing to search docs.

Each skill covers a specific Netlify feature, such as Functions, Edge Functions, or Caching. When installed, your AI agent automatically gets the right context for the task at hand, so it can generate accurate code and configuration.

Install Netlify Skills

Netlify Skills are available through plugin marketplaces for supported AI coding tools. Refer to the sections below for specific installation instructions.

If your tool doesn’t have a plugin marketplace, or for alternative installation methods, refer to the GitHub repository.

Claude Code

Add the marketplace and install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add netlify/context-and-tools
/plugin install netlify-skills@netlify-context-and-tools

This installs all Netlify Skills into Claude Code. The included router tells the agent which skill to read based on what you’re building.

Cursor

Install from the Cursor plugin marketplace:

1. Open Cursor Settings (Cmd+, / Ctrl+,).
2. Go to Plugins.
3. Search for netlify-skills.
4. Select Install.

You can also install through the command palette: Cmd+Shift+P → Plugins: Install Plugin → search netlify-skills.

Codex

Copy the pre-built codex/ directory into your project root:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/netlify/context-and-tools.git /tmp/netlify-skills && \
  cp -r /tmp/netlify-skills/codex . && \
  rm -rf /tmp/netlify-skills

This gives you codex/AGENTS.md (the skill router) and codex/skills/ with all Netlify Skills. Codex discovers AGENTS.md automatically.

Gemini

Netlify Skills are available as a Gemini extension. Refer to the GitHub repository for the latest installation instructions.

Other AI agents

Each skill is a self-contained markdown file with YAML frontmatter and a markdown body. You can feed them into any agent’s context directly from the GitHub repository.

Available Netlify Skills

Skill	Feature Support	Description
netlify-functions	Netlify Functions	Modern syntax, routing, Background Functions, Scheduled Functions, and streaming
netlify-edge-functions	Edge Functions	Deno runtime, middleware patterns, geolocation, and request manipulation
netlify-blobs	Netlify Blobs	Key-value and binary object storage with zero configuration
netlify-db	Netlify DB	Managed Postgres (Neon), Drizzle ORM integration, and migrations
netlify-image-cdn	Image CDN	On-the-fly image transformation and optimization
netlify-forms	Netlify Forms	HTML form handling, AJAX submissions, and spam filtering
netlify-config	File-based configuration	netlify.toml configuration — redirects, headers, build settings, and deploy contexts
netlify-cli-and-deploy	Netlify CLI	Commands, Git and manual deploys, and environment variables
netlify-deploy	Create deploys	Authentication, site linking, Deploy Previews, and production deploys
netlify-frameworks	Framework adapters	Vite, Astro, TanStack Start, and Next.js on Netlify
netlify-caching	Caching	CDN cache control, cache tags, purge, and stale-while-revalidate
netlify-ai-gateway	AI Gateway	Proxy for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI SDKs