Skills for AI agents
This page explains how to use Axiom Skills to give AI coding agents structured investigation capabilities for Axiom.
Axiom Skills are instruction files that give AI coding agents specialized capabilities. Unlike Axiom MCP Server, which provides a standardized protocol for tool discovery and execution, Axiom Skills work by embedding methodology and context directly into the agent's prompt.
For guidance on when to use Axiom Skills and Axiom MCP Server, see AI agents.
Available skills
Axiom provides the following skills:
Axiom alerting
Create and manage monitors and notifiers using the Axiom API
Build dashboards
Design and build Axiom dashboards via API with chart types, APL patterns, and layouts
Control costs
Analyze query patterns, find unused data, and build cost optimization dashboards
Query metrics
Query and explore OpenTelemetry metrics in Axiom's MetricsDB using MPL
System Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Expert SRE investigator for incidents and debugging with hypothesis-driven methodology
Translate SPL to APL
Translate Splunk SPL queries to Axiom APL for migrations
Install Axiom Skills
Install all Axiom skills at once for Claude Code, Cursor, and other Claude-compatible agents:
npx skills add axiomhq/skillsConfigure Axiom credentials
All Axiom Skills share the same credential configuration. Create a configuration file at ~/.axiom.toml:
[deployments.dev]
url = "https://api.axiom.co"
token = "API_TOKEN"
org_id = "ORGANIZATION_ID"
edge_url = "AXIOM_DOMAIN"