confluentinc/agent-skills

This repository provides AI agent "skills", specialized instruction packages that teach AI coding assistants (like Claude or Cursor) how to help developers build data streaming applications using Confluent's platform. Think of them as plug-in knowledge modules that make an AI assistant much more useful for a specific domain. Confluent is built around Apache Kafka, a system for moving large volumes of data between services in real time (like a postal service for data streams between applications). The skills in this collection cover four areas: managing Kafka schemas (the agreed-upon format for data messages) with Schema Registry, building Kafka Streams applications (programs that process streams of data), creating Python Kafka producers and consumers (code that sends and receives messages), and setting up CDC pipelines. CDC stands for Change Data Capture, a technique that automatically tracks changes in a database (like new rows being inserted) and streams those changes to other systems. Once installed, these skills activate automatically when you ask your AI assistant relevant questions, for example, "Create a Kafka producer that sends user profile update events to Confluent Cloud" would trigger the Python Kafka skill to guide the generation of properly structured, production-ready code including security configuration and error handling. You can install the skills either through a CLI (command-line) tool or directly within Claude. The repository is written in Python and licensed under the Apache 2.0 open-source license.