# Agent skills

Source: https://www.fortrabbit.com/agents/agent-skills
Published: 2026-08-23
Reviewed: 2026-10-25

> An open source skill that carries the fortrabbit procedures: deploying, database and file sync, remote commands, fixing errors. A coding agent runs them, not guesses.


**The agent runs the procedure.** Reading the documentation is not the same as performing the operation correctly. The skill carries the workflows — finding the environment, deploying, syncing files, moving a database, running a remote command — so a coding agent executes them instead of reconstructing them from prose.

## Plain words, no commands

"Deploy this", "pull the live database", "why does the site return a 500?". The agent finds the environment from the git remote and branch. Before anything that changes a live environment, it shows the command and waits for a yes.

## With or without a connection

The skill works over SSH and rsync on its own. Adding the [MCP server](/agents/mcp-server) lets the agent list apps, open environments and read deployment logs without a shell. The two work together.

It is open source, so what an agent is being told to do can be read before it does it.

[Agent skills on GitHub](https://github.com/fortrabbit/agent-skills)

Install, update and per-agent setup:

[Agent skills documentation](/platform/automation/agent-skills)

## FAQ

### Which agents does it work with?

**Claude Code, Codex, Copilot** — And any other agent that reads the open Agent Skills format. The frbit CLI installs the skill and connects the MCP server in one command; in Claude Code, the fortrabbit plugin does the same.

### Is an MCP connection required?

**No** — The skill works over SSH and rsync on its own. Adding the MCP server lets the agent list apps, create environments and read deployment logs without a shell — the two halves compose rather than compete.

### What does it do?

**The everyday operations** — Find the environment of the current repo, deploy and follow the deployment, pull or push a database, sync uploads and files, run artisan, craft console or Composer over SSH, and trace a 500 error to its cause.

### What does it need locally?

**git, ssh, rsync** — A MySQL client too, for database work. On Windows, rsync needs WSL; SSH works natively on Windows 10 and later.

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- [MCP server](/agents/mcp-server)
- [Agentic engineering](/workflows/agentic-engineering)
- [Agent skills docs](/platform/automation/agent-skills)
- [Source code](https://github.com/fortrabbit/agent-skills)