> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.apolo.us/index/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.apolo.us/index/apolo-mcp/capabilities/skills.md).

# Agent skills

Apolo MCP ships optional skills that teach supported agent clients how to combine tools into safe workflows. Skills do not add permissions or tools; they provide workflow instructions and client-facing selection metadata.

## [Apolo Platform User Context](/index/apolo-mcp/capabilities/skills/apolo-platform-user-context.md)

**Skill name:** `apolo-platform-user-context`

**Client summary:** Resolve user context and Apolo terminology

Discover and explain a user's Apolo cluster, organization, project, presets, resource hierarchy, terminology, aliases, and URI resolution. Use before Apolo operations, when the user's target context or resource reference is ambiguous, or when routing questions to authoritative CLI, SDK, Flow, Apps, or platform documentation.

## [Apolo Research Job](/index/apolo-mcp/capabilities/skills/apolo-research-job.md)

**Skill name:** `apolo-research-job`

**Client summary:** Run bounded research jobs with provenance

Stage, launch, monitor, evidence, and clean up bounded Apolo research or experiment jobs. Use for training, evaluation, data processing, reproducible scripts, mounted storage outputs, secret-backed jobs, or short compute tasks that need context, preset, provenance, and cost hygiene.

## [Apolo Flow Workloads](/index/apolo-mcp/capabilities/skills/apolo-flow-workloads.md)

**Skill name:** `apolo-flow-workloads`

**Client summary:** Operate Apolo live workflows and batch bakes

Validate and operate Apolo Flow live jobs and batch bakes, including run, inspect, bounded logs/wait, failure diagnosis, restart, cancel, persistent outputs, and cleanup. Use when a request references flow YAML, a Flow project, live jobs, batch actions, bakes, attempts, tasks, or executors.

## [Apolo Applications](/index/apolo-mcp/capabilities/skills/apolo-applications.md)

**Skill name:** `apolo-applications`

**Client summary:** Discover, operate, and debug Apolo Apps

Discover and compare Apolo App templates; inspect status, logs, events, and outputs; debug failures; and plan, install, update, roll back, or delete Apps with immutable checksum-bound files and state-drift protection. Use for any Apps discovery, operation, debugging, or lifecycle request.

## [Apolo Resource Management](/index/apolo-mcp/capabilities/skills/apolo-resource-management.md)

**Skill name:** `apolo-resource-management`

**Client summary:** Manage Apolo resources with bounded safe operations

Inspect and safely manage Apolo storage, disks, images, buckets/blobs, secrets, and service accounts with explicit context, workspace-confined transfers, protected credential sources/sinks, policy gates, and exact ownership. Use for platform resource inventory, metadata, creation, transfer, deletion, or cleanup.

## [Apolo R\&D Session Setup](/index/apolo-mcp/capabilities/skills/apolo-rnd-session-setup.md)

**Skill name:** `apolo-rnd-session-setup`

**Client summary:** Provision isolated full-mode R\&D sessions

Provision a hardened Apolo R\&D session for Codex or Claude Code from a trusted local managed-mode client. Use when a user asks to set up, plan, launch, or grant RBAC for an isolated full-mode agent job backed by a dedicated service account and secret-mounted Apolo credentials.

## [Apolo R\&D Session Operations](/index/apolo-mcp/capabilities/skills/apolo-rnd-session-operate.md)

**Skill name:** `apolo-rnd-session-operate`

**Client summary:** Start and operate isolated R\&D agents

Bootstrap, start, monitor, and hand off Codex or Claude Code inside an isolated Apolo R\&D job using a dedicated service account. Use when operating from inside the job, installing missing agent tooling, configuring Apolo MCP full mode, creating a tmux session, validating identity and RBAC, or diagnosing an existing R\&D agent session.