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mittwald Agent Skills

mittwald provides specialized agent skills that guide AI assistants through complex workflows like migrations and deployments on the mStudio platform. These skills provide structured, step-by-step guidance and domain knowledge without requiring custom prompts.

What Are Agent Skills?​

Agent skills are pre-built workflow templates that teach AI assistants how to handle complex, multi-step processes. Instead of explaining your requirements from scratch each time, you trigger a skill and the AI assistant guides you through the entire workflow conversationally.

Traditional approach:

"Create a project, configure Node.js, set up MySQL, create backup schedule..."

With agent skills:

"Deploy my Express app to mittwald"

The skill handles the workflow complexity, asks clarifying questions when needed, and executes the entire process.

Available Skills​

mittwald-migrate​

Guides you through a conversational, phase-by-phase migration of arbitrary workloads to mittwald mStudio.

Source: Kubernetes, Docker Compose, VPS, another hosting provider, or another mStudio project

Workflow: Discovery → Plan → Provision → Migrate → Verify → Cutover

Triggers: "migrate to mittwald", "Umzug nach mittwald", "move to mStudio"

Learn more →

mittwald-zerodeploy​

Zero-config deployment to mStudio container hosting using Railpack auto-detection. No Dockerfile needed.

Workflow: Provision → Local CLI Deploy → GitHub Actions → Verify

Triggers: "deploy to mittwald", "help me deploy", "set up mittwald deployment"

Learn more →

Installation​

Prerequisites​

Before using the skills:

Installation Instructions​

Recommended (preferred):

user@local $ npx skills add https://github.com/mittwald/agent-skills

This installs the skills without manually cloning into agent-specific folders.

Use this only if npx skills add is unavailable in your environment.

For VS Code Copilot (personal skills):

user@local $ mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills
user@local $ git clone https://github.com/mittwald/agent-skills.git ~/.agents/skills/mittwald-skills

For Claude Code:

user@local $ mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
user@local $ git clone https://github.com/mittwald/agent-skills.git ~/.claude/skills/mittwald-skills

Or install via Claude Code plugin marketplace:

Claude Code session
user@claude-code > /plugin marketplace add mittwald/agent-skills
user@claude-code > /plugin install mittwald-migrate@agent-skills

For Other AI Assistants​

Check your agent's documentation for skill installation paths, then clone the repository there.

Usage​

Once installed, simply trigger the skills in a conversation with your AI assistant:

For migrations:

"I want to migrate my WordPress site from Hetzner to mittwald."

For deployments:

"Help me deploy my Express app to mittwald"

The AI assistant will load the appropriate skill and guide you through the workflow with contextual questions and step-by-step instructions.

Authentication​

Agent skills need at least one way to communicate with mStudio. You can authenticate using the MCP Server (recommended), mittwald CLI, or HTTP API.

See the authentication guide → for detailed setup instructions and security best practices.

Next Steps​