Cloudflare's official Skills plugin (github.com/cloudflare/skills) bundles the Cloudflare MCP servers alongside contextual slash commands and SKILL.md-format skills for building on Cloudflare — covering Workers, Pages, KV, D1, R2, Workers AI, Vectorize, the Agents SDK, and more — and works with any agent that supports the Agent Skills standard: Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, and Cursor.
Why It's in Trial
Cloudflare Skills fits the same pattern as Anthropic Skills (github.com/anthropics/skills) and OpenAI Skills — a vendor shipping first-party skills to teach agents its platform idioms:
- Platinum AAIF member: Cloudflare is a founding Platinum member of the Agentic AI Foundation; shipping a Skills plugin demonstrates genuine commitment to the cross-vendor Agent Skills standard
- Multi-agent support: Works with Claude Code, OpenCode, Codex, Gemini CLI, and Cursor — not locked to one agent
- MCP integration: Skills bundle the Cloudflare MCP servers, so skills + tools work together; the skill provides intent-level context while Code Mode and MCP handle execution
- Broad platform coverage: Workers, Pages, storage (KV, D1, R2), AI (Workers AI, Vectorize), networking, security (WAF, DDoS), and IaC (Terraform, Pulumi)
- Presented at MCP Dev Summit NA 2026 (April 2-3, NYC): The summit session on "MCP vs. Code Mode vs. Skills" framed all three as complementary — Cloudflare ships all three for its platform
Trial rather than Adopt: newly released, no community download/adoption metrics available yet.
When to Use
- Building on Cloudflare Workers, Pages, or the AI stack (Workers AI, Vectorize, Agents SDK)
- Wanting agent-assisted Cloudflare configuration with accurate, up-to-date guidance
- Combining with Code Mode (
@cloudflare/codemode) for efficient large-API tool use - Any Claude Code or Codex workflow where Cloudflare is in the deployment stack
Installation
# Claude Code (Remote Rule)
# Settings > Rules > Add Rule > Remote Rule (GitHub)
# Rule: cloudflare/skills
# Or via Cursor Marketplace
Skills vs. Code Mode vs. MCP (Cloudflare's Stack)
All three exist and are complementary:
| Layer | What it does | Token cost |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare MCP servers | Expose Cloudflare API as callable tools | High (O(endpoints)) without Code Mode |
| Code Mode | Replaces many MCP tools with a typed SDK + execute() | Low, fixed (~1,000 tokens) |
| Skills | Teach agents Cloudflare idioms, best practices, and patterns | Near-zero (markdown instructions) |
The Skills layer is the "how to think about Cloudflare" layer; Code Mode + MCP is the "how to call Cloudflare" layer.
Key Characteristics
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Source | github.com/cloudflare/skills |
| Format | SKILL.md (Anthropic open standard) |
| Compatible agents | Claude Code, OpenCode, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor |
| Platform coverage | Workers, Pages, KV, D1, R2, Workers AI, Vectorize, Agents SDK, WAF, Tunnel, Terraform |
| License | Open-source |
| Vendor | Cloudflare (Platinum AAIF member) |