About Wix Skills

Wix skills help external AI tools, such as Claude and Cursor, work with the CLI by providing the instructions and context needed to develop, deploy, and manage CLI projects.

About skills

Skills are self-contained instructions that tell AI agents how to perform tasks. They follow the open Agent Skills specification and consist of a SKILL.md file containing metadata, instructions, and background information.

Each skill includes the following:

• Name and description: help agents identify what a skill does and when to use it.
• Instructions: step-by-step guidance for performing the task.
• Optional resources: scripts, documentation, and assets that agents can use.

Wix skills follow the Agent Skills specification to provide supported AI tools with the context and instructions to develop, deploy, and manage CLI tasks and projects.

For more information about supported skills and AI tools, see the Wix skills repository.

Wix skills capabilities

Wix skills support every stage of CLI project development, from coding to deployment.

Develop

You can use Wix skills to develop capabilities such as:

• Dashboard extensions: pages, modals, and plugins
• Backend extensions: service plugins, event handlers, and backend APIs
• Site extensions: site widgets, site plugins, and embedded scripts
• UI with the Wix Design System: components for dashboard and site UIs

Verify, build, and deploy

You can also use Wix skills to verify app readiness and handle the build and deploy process. This includes:

• Installing dependencies
• Running type checks
• Troubleshooting and debugging
• Building and deploying a preview

For more information about supported skills, see the Wix skills repository.

Manage Wix skills in your project

New CLI projects include Wix skills by default. To see where skills appear in your project, see the CLI project structure.

To add Wix skills to an existing project, use the wix skills add command.

To update Wix skills to the latest version, use the wix skills update command.

Sample prompts

The following are example prompts you can try with supported AI tools. They provide a useful starting point as you explore what you can build with Wix skills.

Dashboard extensions

• "Add a dashboard page that lists all contacts with search and filters."

• "Add a Delete confirmation modal before removing a product from the catalog."

Backend extensions

• "Add a backend API that returns the last 10 orders as JSON."

• "Add custom shipping rates based on weight and destination."

Site extensions

• "Add a site widget that shows a Sale ends in countdown with a configurable end date."

• "Add a site plugin that shows Back in stock in the product slot."

Validate and test

• "Run the full validation workflow after the last change and report any failures."

• "Verify release readiness and report any issues."

See also

• CLI Development Overview
• Wix skills repository
• About the Wix MCP