How skills work
Skills load automatically when a coding assistant starts inside a Domino workspace. The agent detects the Domino project and loads the Domino Skills preinstalled in the Domino Standard Environment. The skills are published in the public domino-ai-plugin repository, which replaceddomino-claude-plugin; the Domino skills reference covers what the plugin ships and how to install, update, or move it.
You don’t need to install or configure skills manually. To use a skill, reference the skill by name when prompting your agent. For example:
Available skills
The current plugin release ships the following 35 skills. A Workspace keeps the copy from the environment image it first launched with, which can be an earlier release with fewer skills or older names; Domino Cloud doesn’t update it when a Workspace starts. To load the current release, see Switch fromdomino-claude-plugin.
Development & modeling
Jobs & orchestration
Data
Deployment & monitoring
GenAI & LLM
Apps & APIs
Use skills in practice
When you ask your coding agent to perform a Domino-specific task, the agent selects and activates the appropriate skill. For example:- “Train a model on the diabetes dataset and track the experiment” activates the domino-modeling-assistant and domino-experiment-tracking skills.
- “Deploy this model as an API endpoint” activates the domino-model-endpoints skill.
- “Create a Streamlit app for this project” activates the domino-app-init skill.
- “Set up a Spark cluster and run this distributed job” activates the domino-distributed-computing skill.
Next steps
- Get started: Launch a workspace and authenticate your coding agent.
- Domino skills reference: What the plugin ships, and how to install, update, or move it.
- Modeling assistant walkthrough: An end-to-end demo of data analysis, model training, and comparison using skills.