Docker Skills
Official Docker agent skills: builds, Compose, Sandboxes, and Docker Agent workflows.
About
Docker Skills is Docker's official agent-skills repository, teaching coding agents to build, test, debug, and optimize containerized apps with consistent reusable workflows. It groups eleven skills across Dockerfile and build strategies, Compose patterns, Docker Sandboxes, the Docker Agent (cagent) lifecycle, and a cross-product destructive-command guardrail policy.
The repo is installable into Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity, and OpenCode via the skills CLI or native plugin marketplaces, and ships with eval runbooks that validate each skill against real CLI behavior. Apache 2.0 licensed; the repo had around 522 stars as of September 2026.
What it can do
- Docker build and Dockerfile authoring strategies
- Compose pattern guidance for multi-container apps
- Sandboxes lifecycle, networking, and credentials
- Docker Agent config, run, deploy, and eval
- Destructive-command guardrails across all skills
Setup
npx skills add docker/skills --all, or install individual skills for your agent's skills directory.
Prerequisites
An Agent Skills-compatible agent; Docker Engine for build and run workflows.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 79; Trending score 84/100 from researcher assessment.
★ 522 GitHub stars
Sources
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