The Stellar Development Foundation has published Stellar Skills, a new AI-ready website for builders working on Stellar.
The site is live at skills.stellar.org.
For Stellar builders, this is a very practical release.
Most of us are already using AI somewhere in the workflow: scaffolding apps, debugging issues, generating tests, exploring architecture, or getting from idea to prototype faster.
But AI only helps when it has the right context.
If an agent does not understand Stellar-specific patterns, it can generate code that looks reasonable but misses important details around Soroban, wallets, assets, trustlines, RPC, Horizon, signing flows, or ecosystem standards.
Stellar Skills gives us a better starting point.
Instead of asking an AI agent to guess how Stellar works, builders can now point it to a dedicated Stellar context hub before asking it to build.
Read skills.stellar.org before you start building on Stellar.
Why skills matter
AI agents are becoming part of the developer stack.
But general-purpose coding agents do not automatically understand every ecosystem.
They need context.
They need to know which tools exist, which patterns are current, which APIs are preferred, and which details are easy to get wrong.
In Stellar, that context matters because real applications often combine many layers:
- Smart contracts
- Wallets
- Assets
- Standards
- Ecosystem SDKs
A missing detail can break the whole flow.
Skills help agents start from better assumptions.
Instead of asking:
Build this on Stellar.
We can ask:
Use the relevant Stellar Skills context, then help me build this on Stellar.
That is a much better development loop.
What the Stellar Skills catalog includes
The new Stellar Skills site organizes the ecosystem into practical areas.
The catalog includes core skills for:
- Soroban Smart Contracts
- Frontend & Wallets
- Stellar Assets & SAC
- RPC & Horizon APIs
- Agent Payments
- ZK Proofs
- SEPs, CAPs & Ecosystem
This gives builders and agents a map of the main development surfaces on Stellar.
Ecosystem skills — and Trustless Work Escrow
Stellar Skills also includes a Community skills section for ecosystem-maintained tools.
This is where app builders can discover skills for projects such as OpenZeppelin Contracts, DeFindex SDK, Soroswap SDK, and Trustless Work Escrow.
We are excited to see Trustless Work included in this section.
The Trustless Work Escrow skill helps builders and AI agents understand how to build escrow and milestone-based payment workflows on Stellar.
It covers:
- Single-release escrows
- Multi-release escrows
- Trustline configuration
- Dispute handling
- REST API integration
- React SDK hooks
- Pre-built Blocks UI components
This is useful when building products where funds should not move immediately, but only after a condition is met.
Think marketplaces, freelance platforms, grant programs, bounty systems, hackathon prize pools, contractor payments, security deposits, and milestone-based project workflows.
In those cases, the product does not just need a payment.
It needs a payment workflow.
Trustless Work provides escrow infrastructure for that workflow, and the skill helps agents understand how to work with it.
A simple prompt to try
Next time you start building on Stellar with an AI agent, try this:
Before writing code, read skills.stellar.org and use the relevant Stellar Skills context for this project.
Then describe what you are building.
For example:
I am building a milestone-based grant payout app on Stellar. Use the relevant Stellar Skills context for wallets, assets, RPC, and escrow workflows before suggesting an architecture.
If your product needs escrow or milestone-based payment workflows, you can also point your agent directly to the Trustless Work docs MCP.
That gives the agent a much better chance of helping correctly from the start.
Better context for the next wave of Stellar apps
SDF publishing Stellar Skills is good news for the whole ecosystem.
It gives builders a shared starting point. It gives AI agents a better map of Stellar. It makes core skills easier to access. It gives community tools a new discovery surface. And it makes AI-assisted development on Stellar more practical.
For those of us building in the ecosystem, this is exactly the kind of developer experience improvement that matters.
More context. Less guessing. Faster building.
