Socotra has announced the free public release of Socotra Skills, a set of reusable instructions and workflows that help AI agents interact more accurately and efficiently with the platform. Insurers can now build products and execute insurance workflows in Socotra using their preferred AI agent, including Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Codex, and Cursor, among others.
Agent skills, introduced by Anthropic as an open standard, give AI useful, repeatable expertise. Atlassian, Databricks, GitHub, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Stripe have already published skills, and Socotra is the first insurance core to release skills for its platform.
The rationale is one of context. A general-purpose AI agent may know how to write code, but it does not automatically know how Socotra works, including its APIs, MCP Server, configuration model, platform workflows, or the right sequence of steps for building and maintaining insurance products. Socotra’s documentation provides that foundational context, and Socotra Skills build on it by giving AI agents reusable instructions, examples, and workflows. The firm said this leads to better accuracy, more consistent results, less repeated prompting, and a faster path for new users.
With Socotra Skills, insurers can use AI agents to carry out insurance workflows in a sandboxed Socotra environment. These include building any insurance product or package for any geography or distribution channel, creating, pricing, issuing, and underwriting quotes, managing policy transactions and servicing tasks, and configuring billing, reporting, and integrations.
Because the skills are open source and customisable, insurers can adapt them to their own tools, data, and workflows. Examples include enforcing custom product standards, reconciling configuration with filings and other systems, enriching quotes with external data, testing underwriting rules, running routine rate changes, and modelling what-if pricing across a portfolio.
Socotra Skills is the latest addition to the firm’s family of AI products. Socotra MCP Server gives AI applications a structured and auditable way to connect to the platform, Socotra Assistant brings AI into underwriting workflows, and Agentic Configuration helps teams build and validate insurance products. Socotra Skills bring these capabilities into reusable workflows that insurers can run through the AI tools they already use.
Dan Woods, founder and chief executive officer of Socotra, said the release addressed a practical need.
“Insurers need a practical and safe way to use AI for their core systems,” said Woods. “Socotra Skills allow insurers to use the AI tools they already prefer to work directly with their insurance core. This means insurers can test ideas faster, apply changes more consistently, and spend less time translating business decisions into technical steps.”
