README

This skill teaches agents how to:

• Ask which capabilities the user wants (auto-flagging, auto-releasing) and set up only what those need
• Hand the user the GitHub App install or authorize link, and continue after they finish
• Map chosen owner/name repos to LaunchDarkly projects
• Offer auto-cleanup and auto-archival, and guide the project’s Automations settings for each
• Explain whose AI model account runs the agents (LaunchDarkly’s by default, or the user’s own Anthropic or OpenAI key) and guide bring-your-own-key setup
• Review or create environment release plans for auto-releasing, or show release policies where plans are not available
• Confirm one plan that lists every write before making any change, then verify

Installation

Install the LaunchDarkly plugin first. It includes this skill and the LaunchDarkly MCP server that the skill needs.

• Claude Code: run /plugin marketplace add launchdarkly/ai-tooling, then /plugin install launchdarkly@launchdarkly-ai-tooling. Then open /mcp and sign in to the launchdarkly server.
• Cursor: open Settings > Plugins, search for LaunchDarkly, and install it.

The skill is in Claude Code plugin 1.0.3 and Cursor plugin 1.0.4 and later. With an earlier plugin, a request to set up Release Autopilot starts the SDK onboarding skill instead, so update the plugin first.

• Other clients: copy skills/release-autopilot/launchdarkly-release-autopilot-onboarding/ into your client’s skills path, and connect the hosted LaunchDarkly MCP server.

Prerequisites

The remotely hosted LaunchDarkly MCP server must expose the Release Autopilot tools (get-automations, update-automations), and get-release-policies and get-metrics for auto-releasing (get-release-plans and create-release-plan when the account has environment release plans). Accounts without the Release Autopilot add-on enabled get 404s.

Usage

Related

• LaunchDarkly Release Autopilot Settings: single settings changes and “why didn’t my PR get classified?”
• LaunchDarkly Metric Choose: pick metrics for guarded release plans
• LaunchDarkly MCP Server (opens in a new tab)

License

Apache-2.0