🚀 Boosting AI Agents with NextDNS Skills: An Open-Source Toolkit

As AI Agents become a staple in our development workflows, providing them with structured, domain specific skills is crucial for reliable automation. Today, I’m excited to introduce nextdns-skills, an early experiment in creating specialized agent skills for NextDNS API integration and DNS management.

While modern LLMs have a broad understanding of networking, they often struggle with specific API patterns, versioning, or platform specific CLI quirks. This can lead to hallucinations or inefficient configurations when managing DNS infrastructure.

This repository provides 35+ structured rules categorized into three core modules:

1. NextDNS API Integration: 17 rules covering everything from authentication with X-Api-Key headers to real-time log streaming using Server-Sent Events (SSE).
2. NextDNS CLI Management: 10 rules designed to help AI agents install, configure, and troubleshoot the NextDNS proxy on various platforms like Linux, macOS, and routers.
3. NextDNS Web UI Best Practices: 8 rules to guide configuration of security settings, privacy blocklists, and parental controls via the web dashboard.

To ensure the best results, every rule is classified into two types:

• Capability: Patterns that the AI cannot solve without the skill (e.g., specific API response structures or nested endpoints).
• Efficiency: Best practices that improve solution quality and prevent common mistakes (e.g., performance optimization and setup guidelines).

You can easily add these skills to your agentic workflows using npx: npx add-skill tuanductran/nextdns-skills

To ensure consistent results, I recommend prefixing your prompts to trigger the skill explicitly:

use nextdns skill, create a new profile with the recommended privacy blocklist and enable cryptojacking protection via API.

This is an early-stage experiment. I believe that by codifying documentation into AI Skills, we can build more robust tools for developers.

Happy coding! 🛠️

Explore the repository, contribute, or provide feedback here: https://github.com/tuanductran/nextdns-skills