AI Agent Skills

A collection of skills for AI coding agents. Skills are packaged instructions and scripts that extend agent capabilities.

Installation

npx skills add payloadcms/skills

Available Skills

payload

Comprehensive development guidelines for Payload projects. Covers collections, fields, hooks, access control, queries, and plugin development with TypeScript-first patterns.

When to use: Working with Payload projects (payload.config.ts, collections, fields, hooks, access control). Debugging validation errors, security issues, relationship queries, transactions, or hook behavior.

Covers:

• Collections: Auth, uploads, drafts, live preview configurations
• Fields: All field types including relationships, arrays, blocks, joins, virtual fields
• Hooks: beforeChange, afterChange, beforeValidate, field hooks
• Access Control: Collection, field, and global access patterns including RBAC and multi-tenant
• Queries: Local API, REST, and GraphQL with complex operators
• Database Adapters: MongoDB, Postgres, SQLite configurations and transactions
• Advanced Features: Jobs queue, custom endpoints, localization, plugins

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cms-migration

Interactive workflow to design Payload collections from source CMS data. Config-first approach: establish data structure through conversation before importing.

When to use: Migrating content to Payload from WordPress, Contentful, Strapi, Sanity, Webflow, or other CMSs. Working with data exports (JSON, CSV) that need to be mapped to Payload collections.

Covers:

• Data Analysis: Identify field types, relationships, and patterns from source data
• Collection Design: Generate Payload collection configs through iterative conversation
• Field Mapping: Complete reference for all Payload field types with source patterns
• Migration Patterns: WordPress, Contentful, Strapi field mappings
• Common Pitfalls: Select vs relationship disambiguation, rich text handling

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Resources

• Payload Documentation
• Payload GitHub

License

MIT