Docker Skills, Part 1: What It Is, Who It's For, How to Install It
AI coding agents write a lot of Dockerfiles and Compose files these days, and most of them are mediocre: latest tags, missing health checks, credentials baked into layers, root users left in place. Not because the models don’t know better in the abstract, but because “Docker best practice” is scattered across docs, blog posts, and tribal knowledge, and a generic coding agent has no reliable way to pull the right piece of it into a given prompt. This week Docker open-sourced docker/skills, a small collection of files meant to fix exactly that. This is the first post in a series that walks through what’s in it; today is the overview, later posts go deep on each product family. ...