Skills

Skills are guided workflows that an AI client follows to complete a task, encoding expertise as step-by-step instructions rather than code or APIs.

A skill follows the open Agent Skills format: a set of instructions, plus optional scripts and reference files, that an AI client reads on demand. The same skill works across any skills-compatible client. Develocity skills can draw on your Develocity data through the MCP Servers.

How Skills Work

An AI client uses skills through progressive disclosure:

  1. Discovery: At startup, the client loads the name and description of each available skill.

  2. Activation: When your request matches a skill’s description, the client loads that skill’s full instructions.

  3. Execution: The client follows the instructions, running any bundled scripts and reading referenced files as needed.

The client loads a skill’s full instructions only when a task calls for them, so it can keep many skills available at once. It selects the skill whose description matches your request, and some clients also let you start a skill directly.

Install Skills

Develocity distributes its skills through a marketplace served by your Develocity instance. After you add the marketplace in your AI client, the published skills become available to it. See Getting Started for installation steps.

Available Skills

Develocity publishes the following skills:

Develocity Build Caching Optimizer

Diagnoses and fixes cache misses in Gradle and Maven projects, then opens a pull request with the changes.