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The Networks skill teaches agents to work with Galactic VPC networks and network services through datumctl network: create a network, attach workloads to it, give a workload a stable name and named ports for a load balancer, release addresses kept after an Instance is gone, and delete a network without surprising anyone.

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Install

Once installed, the skill activates automatically when you ask an agent to work with networks on Datum.
The skill teaches the datumctl network commands, which come from a plugin that is not installed by default. Install it before an agent follows this skill, or every command it runs will fail:

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Capabilities

  • Create, list, describe, change and delete networks
  • Create network services for a workload and point a load balancer at them
  • Change what a network service selects, or its ports
  • List Instances’ network interfaces and release the ones kept after their Instance went away
  • Read why a network or a network service is not working, and who has to act
  • Preview every change before applying it
It also teaches the readings that trip up a naive agent: a new network with no locations is normal, a service with no ready Instances is a workload problem rather than a network one, and networks never carry IPv4 — including for a workload that asks for a public IPv4 address.

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How it relates to other Datum surfaces

  • Product docs: Galactic VPC and Manage networks with datumctl — the human-facing reference
  • Datum MCP: Datum MCP — for agents that need to read and write Datum resources during a session
  • Datum’s own assistant — a separate surface with read-only network tools of its own, entitled through the platform catalog. It answers questions about a network in the portal without anything being installed; this skill is for driving datumctl yourself
  • Application Load Balancer skill — for putting a network service on the internet

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Last modified on October 13, 2026