The Alibaba Cloud Agent Skills Portal (Skills Portal) is an AI agent skill discovery and installation platform provided by Alibaba Cloud. It provides secure and reliable cloud resource operation capabilities for agents. InAfter you search for the required skills on the Skills Portal and install the skills on the Agent client, the Agent can use natural languages to complete operations on cloud resources.
Preposition Concept
Agent Skills: An open standard that encapsulates instructions, scripts, and reference resources required for specific tasks as reusable capability packs for AI agents to load and execute on demand. For more information, see Learn about Agent Skills.
AI Agent: AI applications that can autonomously plan and execute tasks around a goal, and that can be extended by loading tools or skills.
Product features
Official product: Each Skill passes business tests and security checks. Skill provides the latest API calling methods and parameter specifications. Agents do not need to rely on API information that may be outdated in their training data.
Installed and available: After you install the agent, you can quickly start operations without the need to write integration code.
Multi-client compatibility: The agent is compatible with mainstream agents, such as Cursor, Claude Code, Qwen Code, Qoder, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and OpenClaw.
Features
The Skills Portal is a unified portal for discovering and installing Alibaba Cloud Skills. It provides the following capabilities:
Search for: Search for Skill by product name or feature keyword.
Browse by Category: You can view available skills by category of cloud services, such as elastic computing, database, storage, and cloud network.
View Details: View the Skill feature description, installation command, quality indicator, and source code link.
Quick installation: Copy the installation command on the details page and run the command on the terminal. The Agent client is automatically discovered and loaded without additional configuration.
Billing
The Skills Portal is free of charge. However, the cloud resources that are created or used by the Agent through the Skills Portal are still charged based on the standard billing rules of the corresponding cloud services. For more information, see the billing overview of each cloud service.
Scenarios
Enter natural language commands in the Agent client, and the Agent automatically calls the relevant Skill to complete the operation.
Daily cloud Resource Management
After you install the Skill service, you can query and manage cloud resources in natural language. This reduces the number of manual operations in the console.
Case 1: Enter "View all ECS instances in the Running state in the Hangzhou region". The Agent calls the relevant Skill to return a formatted list of instances.
Case 2: Enter "View the list of OSS buckets and the storage usage of each bucket", and the agent calls the relevant Skill to summarize the storage resource information.
Enterprise-level O&M
After you install the skills of related products, the agent can configure alert rules, analyze root causes, and fix problems in sequence. Manual confirmation is introduced for key operations.
Case: Enter "Our SLB SLB instance
lb-bp1o6ee5nujalXXXXXXcurrently has two backend servers attached, but monitoring has not been configured. Configure an alert rule for the instance in the CloudMonitor. If one or more backend servers are unhealthy, an alert is immediately triggered and an alert message is sent to the DingTalk group. The webhook URL of the DingTalk chatbot is as follows:https://oapi.dingtalk.com/robot/send?access_token=XXXX. The Agent automatically queries information, adds alert rules, and configures DingTalk push.
Solution deployment
After the official Alibaba Cloud solution link is provided, the Agent automatically parses the solution architecture to complete resource planning and environment building.
Case: Enter "Help me deploy this solution" and provide the solution link. The Agent creates the required cloud resources in sequence according to the requirements of the solution, completes the configuration, and outputs the deployment result.
Cross-service task orchestration
After multiple Skill is installed, the Agent calls different Skill in combination in one conversation to summarize the resource information of multiple products.
Case: Enter "View ECS instances in all regions and their associated security group rules". The Agent automatically arranges multiple skills related to ECS and security groups, and summarizes them to output a complete resource association view.