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Using the Agent Skill with AI Agents

How it works

The Elestio Agent Skill is a SKILL.md file placed in your AI agent's skills directory. When you ask your agent to deploy or manage infrastructure, it reads SKILL.md to understand:

  • Which CLI commands to run
  • The correct interactive deployment procedure (what to ask you before deploying)
  • Provider capabilities and limitations
  • Error-handling strategies

The agent then runs the appropriate elestio commands on your behalf.

Trigger phrases

Your agent will activate the Elestio skill when you say things like

What you say What the agent does
"Deploy PostgreSQL" elestio deploy postgresql with guided setup
"I need a Redis cache" elestio deploy redis with guided setup
"Set up n8n for automation" elestio deploy n8n with guided setup
"Deploy my app from GitHub" Automated CI/CD pipeline workflow
"What services are running?" elestio services
"How much is this costing?" elestio billing
"Reboot my PostgreSQL server" elestio reboot <vmID>
"Add a firewall rule for port 8080" elestio firewall update <vmID>

The Interactive Deployment Procedure

The skill mandates that the agent ask you for each deployment parameter individually. It will never deploy with default values without your confirmation.

Parameters asked (in order):

1. Cloud Provider

Netcup, Hetzner, AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Scaleway, and Linode.

Recommended: Netcup, Hetzner, AWS, and Azure.

2. Region (based on provider chosen)

  • Netcup: nbg (Europe – Germany) | mns (North America – US)

  • Hetzner: fsn1, nbg1, hel1 (EU), ash (US)

  • AWS: us-east-1, eu-west-1, etc.

3. Service Plan / Size

Starts at $14/month in the EU ($16 in the US) for a dedicated VM with 2 CPUs, 4 GB RAM, and 60 GB NVMe storage on Netcup.

You can check more here: https://elest.io/pricing#pricing

4. Service Name

The agent suggests a default (e.g., "prod-postgresql") and waits for your text input.

5. Admin Email

The agent proposes your email and lets you confirm or change it.

Example conversation
You:   "Deploy PostgreSQL"
Agent: Which cloud provider? (Netcup recommended for value, Hetzner for features)
You:   "Netcup"
Agent: Which region? (nbg = Europe Germany, mns = North America US)
You:   "nbg"
Agent: Which plan? SMALL ~$7/mo · MEDIUM ~$14/mo · LARGE ~$28/mo · XL ~$55/mo
You:   "MEDIUM"
Agent: What name for this service? Suggestion: prod-postgresql
You:   "demo-postgres"
Agent: Admin email? Suggestion: you@company.com
You:   "Confirmed"
Agent: [runs elestio deploy postgresql --project 112 --name demo-postgres ...]
Agent: ✓ Service deployed! Credentials: ...

What the agent CANNOT do for you

The skill explicitly prohibits the agent from performing these steps (you must do them in a browser):

  • Creating an Elestio account (signup)
  • Adding a payment method
  • Waiting for account approval
After deployment: what the agent will do next

Once a service is deployed, the agent follows this sequence automatically:

  1. Get credentials: elestio credentials <vmID>
  2. Enable auto-backups: elestio backups auto-enable <vmID>
  3. Add custom domain (if requested): elestio ssl add <vmID> myapp.example.com
  4. Configure firewall (if requested): elestio firewall enable <vmID> --rules [...]
  5. Enable auto-updates: elestio updates system-enable <vmID> --security-only

Supported agents & skill locations

Agent Skill file location
Claude Code ~/.claude/skills/elestio/SKILL.md
OpenAI Codex ~/.codex/skills/elestio/SKILL.md
Cursor ~/.cursor/rules/elestio.md
OpenCode ~/.config/opencode/skills/elestio/SKILL.md

After installing or updating the skill, restart your agent tool to load the new instructions.

Version & source

 

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