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What is a Skill?
A skill is a defined operational workflow that Hyground executes on your behalf. It knows which data sources to query, what evidence to collect, what actions to take, and how to present findings.
Every team member executes the same workflow with the same rigour, whether it is 3pm or 3am.
Agents autonomously load skills on demand
Every skill's description sits in the agent's system prompt, but the full body is fetched only when the agent decides to use it. The agent calls `skill(name, reason)`. The description tells it what the skill does and when it applies. The actual procedure is pulled in just-in-time. Context stays lean even as the skill library grows into the hundreds, and each load is recorded with the agent's stated reason.
Example Skills
These could be skills that you could execute immediately against your existing data sources and connected systems at any time.
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Full structured RCA workflow, trigger detection, evidence collection, multi-system investigation, diagnosis, and documented findings.
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Overnight anomaly sweep across services, metrics, and alerts. Collects evidence, flags issues, and delivers a structured report before standup.
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Checks cluster health, config drift, dependency status, and resource headroom before a deployment is approved. Blocks or reports based on your thresholds.
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Scans for exposed secrets, misconfigured RBAC, outdated images, and unusual access patterns. Produces an evidence-backed findings report.
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Reviews resource utilisation trends, identifies services approaching saturation, and produces growth projections with supporting data.
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Generates a structured post-mortem from the investigation record, timeline, root cause, evidence chain, and remediation steps taken.
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Compiles system state, open alerts, recent changes, and active investigations for incoming on-call engineers.
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Failure mode and effect analysis across your service graph, identifies single points of failure and produces prioritised risk findings.
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A weekly digest of incidents handled, actions executed, trends, and capacity signals for engineering leadership.
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Apache ECharts JSON produced by the agent, rendered live in the chat. Time series, bar, pie, stacked area. The metrics_chart skill builds on this for Prometheus queries.
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Vue Flow with dagre auto-layout. Service topology, architecture, decision flow, sequence diagrams. Optional Kubernetes, AWS, Azure and GCP icons. PNG and SVG export.
Custom skills with your operational specifics
Built-in skills cover the common cases. Custom skills encode your organisation’s specifics, your architecture, your runbooks, your definitions of healthy, your remediation steps.
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Plain text or structured format, whichever works for your team
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Automatically shared across your team when saved
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Bundle a Python or Bash script alongside skill.md; the agent runs it in a sandboxed workspace with a 30-second timeout
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Skills can reference any API or MCP server you have configured
Example
Check payment-service pod health in prod
Verify Stripe webhook endpoint is reachable
Confirm database connection pool utilisation < 70%
Check for any open P1 incidents on dependent services
Confirm last deployment succeeded without rollback
Operational Knowledge That Survives Attrition
Every new skill added to Hyground can be shared and is executable by every person on your team. Over time, the platform accumulates the operational expertise of your entire organisation, independent of individual people.
When a senior engineer leaves
When a new engineer joins
