Elastic Docs Skills

A catalog of Claude Code skills for Elastic documentation workflows.

Browse the catalog, pick the skills you need, and install them with a single command.

Quick start

Claude Code plugin (recommended)

Add the marketplace and install — no clone required:

/plugin marketplace add https://github.com/elastic/elastic-docs-skills
/plugin install elastic-docs-skills@elastic-docs-skills

Skills are available immediately as /elastic-docs-skills:, for example:

/elastic-docs-skills:docs-check-style
/elastic-docs-skills:docs-applies-to-tagging

Individual skills via npx

Install all skills with a single command (requires Node.js):

npx --yes skills@latest add elastic/elastic-docs-skills -g

This auto-detects your installed agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, etc.) and prompts you to choose which ones to install to.

Update all installed skills to the latest versions:

npx --yes skills@latest update -g

Install a single skill by name:

npx --yes skills@latest add elastic/elastic-docs-skills --skill docs-check-style -g

Other useful commands:

# List installed skills.
npx --yes skills@latest list -g

# Check for available updates.
npx --yes skills@latest check -g

# Remove a skill.
npx --yes skills@latest remove docs-check-style -g

Alternative: interactive TUI installer

If you prefer an interactive terminal UI (macOS and Linux only, requires Python 3):

curl -fsSL https://ela.st/docs-skills-install | bash

Optional flags:

# List available skills.
curl -fsSL https://ela.st/docs-skills-install | bash -s -- --list

# Install all skills.
curl -fsSL https://ela.st/docs-skills-install | bash -s -- --all

# Update installed skills.
curl -fsSL https://ela.st/docs-skills-install | bash -s -- --update

If you plan to contribute, clone the repository and run locally:

git clone https://github.com/elastic/elastic-docs-skills.git
cd elastic-docs-skills
./install.sh

Creating new skills

If you have this repo cloned, the easiest way to add a skill is to use the built-in /create-skill command (available only within this repo):

/create-skill my-new-skill

This walks you through the process interactively and can open a PR for you.

Manual creation

1. Create a directory under skills///
2. Add a SKILL.md file with the required frontmatter
3. Open a PR

SKILL.md frontmatter schema

Every skill must have YAML frontmatter with at least these fields:

---
name: docs-my-skill              # Required — kebab-case skill invocation name
version: 1.0.0              # Required — SemVer (MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH)
description: What it does    # Required — when to use this skill
---

Optional fields:

disable-model-invocation: true   # Only runs via /my-skill, not auto-triggered
argument-hint: [args]            # Hint shown in autocomplete
allowed-tools: Read, Grep        # Tools the skill can use without asking
context: fork                    # Run in isolated subagent
sources:                         # Upstream URLs for freshness checks
  - https://www.elastic.co/docs/...

Versioning

Skills follow SemVer:

• MAJOR — Breaking changes to the skill’s behavior or interface
• MINOR — New functionality, backwards-compatible
• PATCH — Bug fixes, wording improvements

Bump the version field in your SKILL.md frontmatter when making changes.

Updating installed skills

npx --yes skills@latest update -g

Or, if using the TUI installer:

curl -fsSL https://ela.st/docs-skills-install | bash -s -- --update

CI validation

All PRs that touch skills/** are validated by GitHub Actions in .github/workflows/validate-skills.yml. The workflow runs the following checks on every skill:

• Every skills/**/SKILL.md must have valid YAML frontmatter
• Required fields: name, description, version
• name must be kebab-case and unique across all skills
• version must be valid SemVer
• evals/evals.json (if present) must be valid JSON with required structure

Repository structure

elastic-docs-skills/
├── .github/
│   ├── copilot-setup-steps.yml   # GitHub Copilot coding agent setup
│   └── workflows/
│       ├── validate-skills.yml   # Skill validation via skill-validator
│       └── skill-freshness.lock.yml
├── .claude/skills/               # Skills that work within this repo
├── skills/                       # The browsable catalog
│   └── /
│       └── /
│           └── SKILL.md
├── install.sh                    # Interactive TUI installer
└── README.md

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed guidelines on creating skills, writing evals, choosing categories, and frontmatter conventions.

License

This repository is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE.txt for the full text.