SKILL.md
JFrog AI Catalog
Discover, install, and manage agent skills and agent plugins from the JFrog AI Catalog (Artifactory skills/plugins repositories), and publish your own back to it, all through the JFrog CLI (jf skills, jf agent plugins) and the JFrog Agent Guard.
Choose a reference file
Pick the row matching the user's intent and read that reference file.
| Intent | Read |
|---|---|
| "What skills are available?" / browse the catalog / list versions / search by name | [references/discovering-skills.md](references/discovering-skills.md) |
| Install or update a skill (latest or a pinned version), or a download is blocked | [references/installing-skills.md](references/installing-skills.md) |
| "What's installed?" / remove an installed skill | [references/managing-installed-skills.md](references/managing-installed-skills.md) |
| Publish / upload / release a skill to the catalog | [references/publishing-skills.md](references/publishing-skills.md) |
| "What plugins are available?" / browse the plugin catalog / list plugin versions / search plugins | [references/discovering-plugins.md](references/discovering-plugins.md) |
| Install or update a plugin (latest or a pinned version) | [references/installing-plugins.md](references/installing-plugins.md) |
| "What plugins are installed?" / remove an installed plugin | [references/managing-installed-plugins.md](references/managing-installed-plugins.md) |
| Publish / upload / release a plugin to the catalog | [references/publishing-plugins.md](references/publishing-plugins.md) |
Prerequisites
- Read the base
jfrogskill first. [../jfrog/SKILL.md](../jfrog/SKILL.md)
owns the shared guards this skill depends on, so this skill does not repeat them — follow them there: - The [environment check](../jfrog/SKILL.md#environment-check) — confirm jf is installed before the first jf call, and install it if missing. - The [server selection rules](../jfrog/SKILL.md#server-selection-rules-mandatory) — resolve the default <SID> once and reuse it, pass --server-id <SID> after the subcommand on every jf call, and use one server per request. Resolve it now, before any jf call: ``bash jf config show 2>/dev/null \ | awk '/^Server ID:/{id=$NF} /^Default:[[:space:]]*true/{print id; exit}' # stdout: the default server-id; if empty, stop and ask which server to use ` - The stop-on-error rule — on any jf` failure, stop and never switch servers.
One addition specific to this skill: never cat or parse ~/.jfrog/jfrog-cli.conf.v6 (it can hold access tokens); list servers only with jf config show, which redacts secrets.
- Agent Guard registry. Catalog discovery and repo provisioning run through
npx --yes @jfrog/agent-guard. <REGISTRYURL> is the npm registry that provides the @jfrog/agent-guard package itself: use JFROGAGENTGUARDREPO if set, otherwise https://releases.jfrog.io/artifactory/api/npm/coding-agents-npm/. Pass the same <SID> to Agent Guard as --server "<SID>" so it targets the same server as your jf calls. Agent Guard also reads JFROGURL / JFURL directly when set, so make sure the <SID> you resolved points at that same host.
- Resolve the project (
<PROJECT>) only when needed.
It is required for --list-skills, --list-skill-versions, --provision-skills-repository, --list-agent-plugins, --list-agent-plugin-versions, and --provision-agent-plugins-repository. Resolve it with this priority: 1. Parse ~/.jfrog/setup.json (if present) and read .servers["<SID>"].currentActiveProject. 2. Fall back to $JF_PROJECT. 3. If still empty, ask the user for the project key - do not guess.
``bash PROJECT=$(jq -r --arg sid "<SID>" '.servers[$sid].currentActiveProject // empty' \ ~/.jfrog/setup.json 2>/dev/null) [ -z "$PROJECT" ] && PROJECT="${JF_PROJECT:-}" ` There is no non-admin way to look up or validate project keys (the /access/api/v1/projects list endpoint needs admin), so you cannot silently correct a display name to a key. If the value looks like a display name (spaces, mixed case) rather than a short slug, ask the user to confirm the project key specifically. Never assume default, never invent one. Install, update, remove, and publishing to an explicit --repo` are keyed by skill/plugin name and/or repo, not a project.
- Bundle manifests differ by type. Skill bundles require
SKILL.md
in the bundle root; plugin bundles require plugin.json. Validate the correct file before installing or publishing.
Workflow overview
flowchart TD
A[User request] --> B{jf CLI installed?}
B -->|No| C[Ask user to install jf CLI, then continue]
B -->|Yes| D{Intent}
C --> D
D -->|List all skills / versions| E[npx @jfrog/agent-guard --list-skills]
D -->|Install / update skill| F[Resolve slug + version, then jf skills install/update]
D -->|List installed skills / remove| G[jf skills list / rm -rf install dir]
D -->|Publish skill| H[Resolve/provision repo, validate bundle, jf skills publish]
D -->|List all plugins / versions| I[npx @jfrog/agent-guard --list-agent-plugins]
D -->|Install / update plugin| J[Resolve slug + version, then jf agent plugins install/update]
D -->|List installed plugins / remove| K[jf agent plugins list / rm -rf install dir]
D -->|Publish plugin| L[Resolve/provision repo, validate bundle, jf agent plugins publish]
Gotchas
Catalog-specific rules only. The shared jf guards — single server per request, stop-on-error, and cautious mutation — live in the base [jfrog skill](../jfrog/SKILL.md); follow those too. Flow-specific rules live in the reference files above.
- Which operations mutate: install and list are read-mostly; remove, registry
delete, and publish mutate state — the base skill's cautious-mutation rule applies to those three.
- Session pickup: installs, updates, and removals usually take effect only at
the next agent session start, so tell the user to restart.
- Don't leak the plumbing: present skills/versions/repos to the user, never
the npx/Agent Guard commands, --registry, flags, or cursors. Run follow-ups yourself.
- Use the response templates verbatim: where a reference file gives a "reply
using this exact template" block, fill the placeholders and send exactly that, with the same wording every time and no extra preamble or commentary.
- Plugins have no Xray support: skip all Xray-related handling (no 403
gating on download, no inline scan on publish, no --skip-scan flag) when performing any jf agent plugins operation.