Airship Skills

A skill is a portable set of instructions that teaches your AI assistant how to complete a specific kind of task in a consistent, repeatable way. Airship Skills work with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other assistants that use the open Agent Skills standard.

Why use Airship Skills

Airship Skills teach AI assistants to handle Airship tasks, from targeted REST API operations, such as registering a channel, sending a push, or creating an automation pipeline, to guided mobile SDK implementation workflows that detect your platform, write code, and verify the result.

Using Skills gives you these benefits:

• Time savings — Pre-built Skills speed up implementation.
• Accuracy — Workflows catch errors and adapt as needed.
• Consistency — Assistants follow the same process every time.
• Speed — Multi-step tasks run automatically, no micromanagement needed.

Organization

Skills are organized in two layers:

• Workflows are the primary entry point for most tasks. A workflow chains multiple operations into an end-to-end process, interpreting results and dynamically adjusting. For example, an onboarding workflow registers email and SMS channels, associates them with a named user, records a custom event, and sends a welcome notification. Each step is informed by the previous one’s output.

• Individual skills are the fundamental actions used within workflows, but you can also run them independently for targeted tasks. While a workflow chains multiple skills together for complex processes, an individual skill might simply look up a channel, send a push notification, or update a Wallet pass.

Workflow examples

Workflows available in Airship Skills include:

• Registering and associating an email or SMS channel with a Named UserA customer-provided identifier used for mapping multiple devices and channels to a specific individual.
• Creating automations triggered by Custom EventsEvents that indicate that a user performed a predefined action, such as adding an item to a shopping cart, viewing a screen, or clicking an Unsubscribe button. Custom Events can trigger automation, including Sequences and Scenes. You can code them into your app or website, or send them to Airship from an external source using the Custom Event API. Custom Events contain properties that you can use to personalize messages., with personalized messaging using HandlebarsHandlebars is Airship’s templating language for personalization. Handlebars expressions use double curly braces wrapped around a content template, ranging from a simple variable, e.g., {{first_name}}, to complex evaluations of personalization data. templates
• Discovering existing automations and generating sample events that would trigger them
• Exporting an entire audience using parallel pagination across UUID prefixes
• Monitoring Real-Time Data StreamingA service that delivers user-level events in real time to your backend or third-party systems using the Data Streaming API. event streams with automatic reconnection
• Updating Wallet passes in response to events from a point-of-sale system

Get Airship Skills

Browse the Airship AI Tools repository to see what’s available or clone it to inspect skill definitions locally: https://github.com/urbanairship/agent-tools .