capture-generic-create SKILL.md skillA
capture-generic-create from estuary/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add estuary/agent-skills/capture-generic-create@git:20260924.c6e4810Pins git:20260924.c6e4810 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- estuary/agent-skills
- Path
skills/capture-generic-create/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260924.c6e4810, committed Sep 24, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 5, 2026
- Size
- 10,336 bytes
- Repository stars
- 7
- License
- Apache-2.0
Create a capture for ANY Estuary connector using dynamic schema discovery. Use when the user wants to capture from a source that doesn't have a dedicated skill (e.g., Kafka, Salesforce, HubSpot, Stripe, S3, GCS, Kinesis, or any of the 148+ connectors). Use when user says "capture from <source>", "stream from <source>", "connect <source> to Estuary", or "set up <source> capture" and no connector-specific skill exists.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Create Capture (Any Connector) Create a capture for any Estuary source connector by dynamically discovering the connector's config schema, documentation, and version from the connector registry. This skill works for all 148+ capture connectors. **Check for a dedicated skill first:** Before using this generic workflow, check if a dedicated `capture-<connector>-create` skill exists for the user's data source. Dedicated skills have connector-specific prerequisite walkthroughs and troubleshooting that this generic skill can't provide. Only use this skill if no dedicated one exists. ## Step 0: Identify the Connector Ask the user what data source they want to capture from, then search the connector registry: ```bash flowctl raw get --table connector_tags \ --query 'select=image_tag,documentation_url,endpoint_spec_schema,connectors!inner(image_name)' \ --query 'connectors.image_name=ilike.*<search-term>*' \ --query 'protocol=eq.capture' \ --query 'order=image_tag.desc' \ --query 'limit=5' ``` Replace `<search-term>` with a keyword from the user's request (e.g., `kafka`, `salesforce`, `hubspot`, `stripe`). **If multiple matches are returned:** …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add estuary/agent-skills/capture-generic-create@sha256:b5dc6e550e619f1bThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.c6e4810, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_mzff35my4qrdwdqc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 5, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026, about one every 142 days.
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| git:20260924.c6e4810 latest | 2026-09-24 | c6e4810 | 10,336 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260505.8873932 | 2026-05-05 | 8873932 | 10,219 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10336 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
estuary/agent-skills · 7 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_mzff35my4qrdwdqc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=estuary/agent-skills/capture-generic-create GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b5dc6e550e619f1bdda330ab59edce86adffbbccd601fb4885ad2ff9926967e6
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.