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Provider skills are the short capability bullets shown on provider pages. They help you quickly understand what a provider is good at before inspecting its tools, versions, or setup options. These are different from Magic Skills, which are reusable Workforce assets that teams create and govern.
What you’ll learn:
  • What provider skills are
  • How skills differ from tools
  • Where skills fit into provider selection and tool filtering

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Skills In The Dashboard

Provider pages show a Provider Summary section. The dashboard code treats this as an AI-generated overview of the provider’s capabilities and features. Linear provider skills Examples from the dashboard include summaries such as:
  • create and manage issues
  • manage projects and milestones
  • manage cycles and sprints
  • manage repositories
  • create pull requests
  • star repositories

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Skills Versus Tools

Skills are not executable tool calls. They are summaries that help you decide whether a provider is relevant.
ConceptMeaning
Provider skillHuman-readable capability summary on a provider page
Magic SkillReusable Workforce skill created and governed by your team
ToolExecutable MCP capability with an input/output schema
Tool filterPolicy that allows, rejects, or mixes specific tools during setup
IntegrationReusable configured provider setup
Magic MCP ServerConnectable MCP endpoint built from provider access

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Selection Flow

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Tool Filters

Provider setup groups tools into read-only, write, and destructive categories. For providers such as GitHub and Linear, this is where the broad skill summary becomes concrete access control. GitHub tool filters Use skills to choose a provider. Use tools and tool filters to decide what an agent is allowed to do.

Providers

Learn how providers, integrations, configs, and auth configs fit together.

Integrations Overview

Learn how approved provider access is configured.