> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://axiom.co/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# 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](/console/intelligence/ai-agents-overview).

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  Axiom Skills are open-source and welcome your contributions. For more information, see the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/axiomhq/skills).
</Info>

## Available skills

Axiom provides the following skills:

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Axiom alerting" icon="bell" href="/console/intelligence/skills/axiom-alerting">
    Create and manage monitors and notifiers using the Axiom API
  </Card>

  <Card title="Build dashboards" icon="chart-mixed" href="/console/intelligence/skills/build-dashboards">
    Design and build Axiom dashboards via API with chart types, APL patterns, and layouts
  </Card>

  <Card title="Control costs" icon="coins" href="/console/intelligence/skills/control-costs">
    Analyze query patterns, find unused data, and build cost optimization dashboards
  </Card>

  <Card title="Query metrics" icon="chart-line" href="/console/intelligence/skills/query-metrics">
    Query and explore OpenTelemetry metrics in Axiom's MetricsDB using MPL
  </Card>

  <Card title="System Reliability Engineering (SRE)" icon="magnifying-glass-chart" href="/console/intelligence/skills/sre">
    Expert SRE investigator for incidents and debugging with hypothesis-driven methodology
  </Card>

  <Card title="Translate SPL to APL" icon="language" href="/console/intelligence/skills/translate-spl-to-apl">
    Translate Splunk SPL queries to Axiom APL for migrations
  </Card>

  <Card title="Write evals" icon="flask-vial" href="/console/intelligence/skills/write-evals">
    Scaffold evaluation suites for AI capabilities using the Axiom AI SDK
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## Install Axiom Skills

Install all Axiom skills at once for Claude Code, Cursor, and other Claude-compatible agents:

```bash theme={null}
npx skills add axiomhq/skills
```

### Configure Axiom credentials

All Axiom Skills share the same credential configuration. Create a configuration file at `~/.axiom.toml`:

```toml ~/.axiom.toml theme={null}
[deployments.dev]
url = "https://api.axiom.co"
token = "API_TOKEN"
org_id = "ORGANIZATION_ID"
edge_url = "AXIOM_DOMAIN"
```

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  Replace `API_TOKEN` with the Axiom API token you have generated. For added security, store the API token in an environment variable.

  Replace `ORGANIZATION_ID` with your organization ID. For more information, see [Determine organization ID](/reference/tokens#determine-organization-id).

  Replace `AXIOM_DOMAIN` with the base domain of your edge deployment. For more information, see [Edge deployments](/reference/edge-deployments).

  For token creation and scoping guidance, see [Token hygiene for AI agents](/console/intelligence/ai-agents-overview#token-hygiene-for-ai-agents).
</Info>