Version: Next

Well-known published skills

This section lists the AI skills published by the Backstage project at the backstage.io well-known endpoint. Install any of these skills into your repository with:

npx skills add https://backstage.io

Skills

app-frontend-system-migration: Migrate a Backstage app from the old frontend system to the new one. Covers the hybrid migration phase and the full migration of routes, sidebar, plugins, APIs, themes, and other app-level concerns.
plugin-new-frontend-system-support: Add new frontend system support to an existing Backstage plugin while keeping the old system working. Use this for published or shared plugins that need to work in both old and new frontend system apps.
plugin-full-frontend-system-migration: Fully migrate a Backstage plugin to the new frontend system, dropping all old system support. Use this for internal plugins that only need to run in a single app, or when you are ready to remove backward compatibility entirely.

mui-to-bui-migration: Migrate Backstage plugins from Material UI (MUI) to Backstage UI (BUI). Covers component mapping, import updates, and styling pattern replacements.

plugin-analytics-instrumentation: Instrument a Backstage frontend plugin with analytics events using the Backstage Analytics API. Covers adding, reviewing, and extending event capture, deciding whether an interaction warrants an event, and writing tests for analytics behavior.

onboard-to-openapi-server: Migrate an existing Backstage backend plugin's hand-written Express router to the typed OpenAPI tooling. Optionally covers typed client generation and migrating router tests to the OpenAPI test wrapper.