The Alibaba Cloud Agent Skills Portal (Skills Portal) is a platform where you can discover and install cloud operation skills for your AI agent. After you find a skill on the Skills Portal and install it on your agent client, the agent can perform cloud resource operations using natural language.
Key concepts
Agent Skills: An open standard that packages the instructions, scripts, and reference resources required for a specific cloud task into a reusable skill. AI agents load and run skills on demand. For more information, see Learn about Agent Skills.
AI agent: An AI application that autonomously plans and executes tasks toward a goal. Agents extend their capabilities by loading tools or skills.
Features
The Skills Portal provides a straightforward workflow to extend your AI agent with cloud operation capabilities:
Discover: Search for a skill by product name or keyword on the Skills Portal, or browse skills by cloud service category such as elastic computing, databases, storage, and networking.
Install: Copy the installation command from the skill details page and run it in your terminal. The agent client automatically detects and loads the skill without additional configuration.
Use: Enter a natural language command in your agent client. The agent identifies the relevant skill and executes the operation.
Benefits
Up-to-date and verified: Each skill passes functional tests and security checks before publication. Skills provide the latest API methods and parameter specifications, so your agent does not rely on potentially outdated API information from its training data.
Ready to use: Install a skill and start operating immediately. No integration code is required.
Supported AI coding tools: Skills are compatible with major agent clients, including Cursor, Claude Code, Qwen Code, Qoder, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and OpenClaw.
Portal capabilities
The Skills Portal provides the following capabilities:
Search: Find skills by product name or feature keyword.
Browse by category: View available skills organized by cloud service category, such as elastic computing, databases, storage, and networking.
View details: Review the skill description, installation command, quality metrics, and source code link.
Quick installation: Copy the one-line installation command and run it in your terminal to install the skill.
Use cases
After you install skills, you enter natural language commands in your agent client and the agent calls the relevant skills to complete operations.
Cloud resource management
Query and manage cloud resources in natural language without manual console operations.
Example: Enter "List all running ECS instances in the China (Hangzhou) region." The agent returns a formatted instance list.
Example: Enter "Show my OSS buckets and the storage usage of each bucket." The agent summarizes your storage resources.
IT operations
Install skills for related products, and the agent can configure monitoring, analyze root causes, and remediate issues. The agent requests manual confirmation before performing critical operations.
Example: Enter "My SLB instance
lb-bp1o6ee5nujalXXXXXXhas two backend servers but no monitoring. Set up a CloudMonitor alert rule that triggers when a backend server becomes unhealthy, and send the alert to this DingTalk webhook:https://oapi.dingtalk.com/robot/send?access_token=XXXX." The agent queries the instance, configures the alert rule, and sets up the DingTalk notification.
Solution deployment
Provide a link to an official Alibaba Cloud solution, and the agent parses the architecture, creates the required resources, and completes the deployment.
Example: Enter "Deploy this solution" and provide the solution URL. The agent provisions the cloud resources, applies the configuration, and reports the result.
Cross-service orchestration
With multiple skills installed, the agent combines different skills in a single conversation to aggregate information across cloud products.
Example: Enter "Show all ECS instances across regions and their associated security group rules." The agent coordinates ECS and security group skills to produce a consolidated resource view.
Billing
The Skills Portal is free. Cloud resources that you create or use through installed skills are charged according to the standard billing rules of each cloud service. For more information, see the billing documentation of the relevant service.