Docker Skills

Docker's official, open-source skills for coding agents. They help your agent with Docker tasks, such as improving a Dockerfile or setting up a Compose application, following Docker's own guidance. Your agent loads the right skill when a request matches, so you don't need to name one; ask for an outcome in plain language, like "Make this Dockerfile smaller and run as a non-root user." What its skills cover - Dockerfile and build: containerizing a project, multi-stage builds, layer caching, .dockerignore, non-root users and smaller images - Docker Compose: robust, maintainable multi-container stacks - Docker Sandboxes: running coding agents in isolated microVMs with the sbx CLI, plus network policy, credentials, environments and kits - Docker Agent: writing agent.yaml configs, running agents locally, and serving, distributing and testing them - Docker Docs: answering questions about any Docker product from the current official docs, with links - Guardrails: before a command that deletes or resets Docker resources, the agent says what will be lost and asks you first How to install it In Claude Code, run /plugin marketplace add docker/skills, then /plugin install docker-skills@docker. In Gemini CLI, run gemini extensions install https://github.com/docker/skills. Docker also documents plugin installs for Codex, GitHub Copilot CLI and Cursor, and npx skills add docker/skills installs the skills into other coding agents. Good to know - Plugin and extension installs also add Docker's remote docs MCP server, which the Docker Docs skill uses to search the documentation. - Some skills are marked experimental, because the features they cover may still change. - Skills guide the agent; Docker suggests reviewing its changes, running your tests and confirming destructive operations yourself.