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A skill is a reusable playbook that teaches the agent how to perform a specific class of tasks to a known standard, along with the tools available to investigate and remediate security issues.Agents use skills to make decisions during triage. Updating a skill is how you change agent behavior.

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What a skill contains

  • Content: Rich procedural text describing the playbook, with headings, lists, links, and embedded tools.
  • Tools: Integrations the skill can invoke during execution, including Slack, Teams, Discord, SMS, email, PagerDuty, webhook, DNS, Jira, AWS, Vercel, Huntress, CrowdStrike, plus custom MCP tools.
  • Domain tags: Categories like DNS, Identity & Access, Web3, Cloud, SDLC.
  • Versions: Every save creates a snapshot with editor attribution. Compare and roll back as needed.
  • Lineage: Skills can be managed (synced from a template) or unmanaged (forked or custom). Editing a managed skill forks it.

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Skill templates

Clarion ships 131 skill templates across 13 domains — Cloud, Identity & Access, Endpoint & Device, SDLC, DNS & Infrastructure, Operations, Vulnerability, Security Incidents, Network, Web3 & Blockchain, Application, Email, and Threat Intelligence. See Our skills for the full breakdown, and the Community Library for skills shared by other teams running Clarion.

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Agent behavior

Skills describe how to handle a specific class of tasks. For guidance that should apply across every agent in your workspace, use Settings → Agents → Agent behavior instead of duplicating it in each skill. Good examples:
  • How to start a war room.
  • Organization-wide terminology, escalation hierarchy, and on-call conventions.

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What you can do

  • Create skills from a template or from scratch.
  • Edit skill content with full version history.
  • Embed tools in a skill to give agents the actions they need.
  • Assign skills to agents.
  • Fork templates on customization, or reset back to the template default.

Our skills

Every domain we ship skill templates for.

Tools

The actions a skill can give an agent.

Authoring best practices

How to write a skill agents pick at the right moment and follow well.