Payload Skills
Official agent skills for building with the Payload headless CMS.
About
Payload Skills is the official skill pack from the Payload CMS team (payloadcms/skills on GitHub), teaching coding agents to work with Payload, the TypeScript-native headless CMS. It includes skills for Payload development workflows and CMS migration, helping agents scaffold collections, configure the admin panel, and migrate content from other platforms.
With roughly 164 stars it is well adopted for a CMS-specific skill repo. One caveat: the repository carries no open-source license, so it is effectively all rights reserved despite being public; install and use it from the vendor source rather than forking it.
What it can do
- Payload CMS development guidance
- CMS migration assistance
- Collection and field scaffolding
- Admin panel configuration
Setup
Install with npx skills add payloadcms/skills in a Claude Code or compatible agent environment.
Prerequisites
A coding agent that supports the Agent Skills format; a Payload CMS project.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 84; Trending score 74/100 from researcher assessment.
★ 164 GitHub stars
Sources
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