Engineering Skills
AI skills for code review, incident response, system design, testing strategy, and technical documentation.
On this page
Engineering skills help you ship better code faster. They pull context from your repositories, issue trackers, monitoring tools, and documentation to deliver structured analysis -- code reviews, incident timelines, architecture recommendations, and test plans -- without context-switching between tools.
Instead of manually assembling post-mortems or writing boilerplate documentation, an engineering skill does the analysis and produces consistent, thorough output every time.
What you can do
- Review code for security vulnerabilities, performance issues, and style violations against your team's standards
- Run incident response workflows that build timelines, identify root causes, and draft post-mortems
- Evaluate system design decisions with trade-off analysis for scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Generate testing strategies with coverage recommendations, edge cases, and test scaffolding
- Write technical documentation including API references, architecture decision records, and runbooks
- Track and prioritize tech debt with impact assessments and remediation plans
Pre-built skills
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| Code Reviewer | Analyzes code changes for security, performance, readability, and adherence to your team's style guide. Returns line-level comments with severity ratings. |
| Incident Responder | Builds incident timelines from alerts and logs, identifies contributing factors, and drafts a structured post-mortem with action items. |
| System Designer | Evaluates architecture proposals against your constraints. Surfaces trade-offs, identifies failure modes, and recommends patterns. |
| Test Planner | Generates test strategies for a feature or service -- unit, integration, and end-to-end coverage with specific edge cases and priorities. |
| Documentation Writer | Produces technical docs from code and context. Handles API references, architecture decision records, setup guides, and runbooks. |
| Debt Tracker | Catalogs tech debt from code and issue trackers, scores items by impact and effort, and recommends a prioritized paydown plan. |
Connectors
Engineering skills work best when connected to the tools you already use. Supported connectors include GitHub, Slack, Linear, Jira, PagerDuty, and Datadog.
Connect them through the dashboard under Connectors to give your skills real-time access to your engineering data.
Next steps
- Creating Skills -- Build a custom engineering skill tailored to your workflow
- Publishing Skills -- Share your skill with your team or the marketplace