---
title: "AG Skills"
framework: react
version: "14.1.0"
---

# AG Skills

Our [AI skills](https://github.com/ag-grid/skills) give coding agents such as Claude and Codex the expertise to build and maintain your AG Charts and AG Grid applications from our official guidance.

> **Note**
>
> We are actively developing and releasing new versions of our skills. Feedback is welcome - [open an issue](https://github.com/ag-grid/skills/issues) on GitHub.

## Setup

One skills package covers all of our products: [AG Charts](https://www.ag-grid.com/charts/), [AG Grid](https://www.ag-grid.com/) and [AG Studio](https://www.ag-grid.com/studio/).

### Installation

A skill is a folder of files that you install in your project repository or your home directory. Use the skills CLI to copy the files from the [ag-grid/skills](https://github.com/ag-grid/skills) repository to your machine:

```bash
npx skills add ag-grid/skills
```

### Updating

We refine the skills and extend them to cover new Charts, Grid and Studio releases, so update at any time to pick up the latest guidance:

```bash
npx skills update ag-grid/skills
```

## Skills

We currently provide two skills. If there's something else you'd like to see, [open an issue](https://github.com/ag-grid/skills/issues) to suggest a skill.

### ag-dev

`ag-dev` is a general development assistant that helps agents write correct code on the first attempt.

Coding harnesses like Claude Code and Codex will often automatically use it when planning or writing code that interacts with our libraries - simply installing the skill will improve the results you get during development. However, because automatic triggering is best-effort, for the most consistent results we recommend explicitly telling your agent to use the ag-dev skill, especially when working on complicated tasks:

```bash
Create a custom theme that applies our brand palette and axis label
formatting to every chart (use the ag-dev skill)
```

It includes a list of rules for the agent to follow to avoid common LLM pitfalls, debugging guidance, and instructions for accessing version-matched documentation to ensure that your agent uses the APIs for the installed version of the library.

### ag-update

Upgrading across major versions normally means reading every release's breaking changes and working out which ones touch your code. The `ag-update` skill hands that work to your coding agent: it reads the AG Charts migration documentation, checks it against your repository, and produces a Markdown file listing the changes needed to move to a new version.

To let the skill detect everything for you, invoke it from your coding agent:

```bash
Use the ag-update skill to upgrade my-app
```

You can also tell it exactly what to update, down to individual projects and target versions.

```bash
Use the ag-update skill to update all projects in this monorepo
except apps/demo-app to AG Charts v14
```

#### Example run

A typical run, updating a single project to AG Charts v14, looks like this:

```bash
> Use the ag-update skill to update the dashboard/typescript project to AG Charts v14

Determining scope → AG_UPDATE_SCOPE.md
  - dashboard/typescript
    - ag-charts-community@13.3.1 -> 14.0.0
    - ag-charts-enterprise@13.3.1 -> 14.0.0

Determining changes → AG_UPDATE_CHANGES.md
  Found changes to review before applying.

Apply changes? yes
  Updated package.json
  $ pnpm install     ✓
  $ pnpm typecheck   ✓
  $ pnpm build       ✓

Done — dashboard/typescript is on AG Charts 14.0.0.
```

`AG_UPDATE_CHANGES.md` contains an entry for each change, grouped by product and version transition, labelled `BREAKING` or `BEHAVIOUR`, and paired with how to mitigate it:

```bash
## Charts v13.x -> v14.x

### BREAKING: Bubble Series size options renamed

Change: `size` and `domain` are removed from Bubble Series options.

Mitigation: Use `minSize` in place of `size`, and `sizeDomain` in place
of `domain`.
```

Review the generated files, then ask the agent to apply the plan. It bumps the versions in `package.json`, reinstalls dependencies, and validates the result against your build, typecheck, and dev server.