Teach Your AI Agent GraphQL

You can hand your GraphQL work to an AI agent today, but it tends to make the same mistakes developers have made for years: schemas that are nullable everywhere, anonymous queries, and code that ignores partial errors. Most of the time the model isn't the problem. It just doesn't know your API or your team's conventions, so it guesses.

Agent Skills are a lightweight, open format for giving an agent that missing context. In this talk, I'll walk through real examples from Apollo's open-source skills and show how a few Markdown files can nudge an agent toward efficient operations that respect your conventions and intentional schema design that scales with your team, instead of leaving it to guess.

You don't need to be an expert in AI or GraphQL to follow along. If you've ever used a coding assistant and wished it understood GraphQL better, this talk is for you.