Skills Overview
A Skill is a domain Escher is good at. Every paid plan includes four basic skills out of the box; advanced verticals are add-ons.
Skills at a glance
Basic (included in every paid plan)
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CloudOps — estate posture, drift, ownership, change tracking
FinOps — cost analysis, anomalies, waste, attribution
SecOps — exposure, IAM blast radius, threat surface
Compliance Ops — SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, CISAdvanced add-ons (additional verticals)
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DevOps — change correlation, MTTR analysis, deploy risk
SRE — incident triage, RCA, on-call workflows
Data Ops — pipeline posture, residency, lineage
Database Management Ops — DB configuration, backup, capacityINFO
The basic verticals (CloudOps, FinOps, SecOps, Compliance Ops) also have advanced extensions on the Advanced plan that unlock deeper reasoning, custom frameworks, and cross-domain correlation.
Which skill answers what
Escher routes your question to the right skill automatically. You never have to pick. But for context:
| You ask | Skill used |
|---|---|
| "What runs in prod?" / "What changed yesterday?" | CloudOps |
| "Why did the bill spike?" / "Where's our top waste?" | FinOps |
| "Who has admin access?" / "What's exposed?" | SecOps |
| "Are we SOC 2 ready?" / "Map our PCI scope." | Compliance Ops |
| "What deploy caused this incident?" | DevOps |
| "Why is the page firing?" / "What's our MTTR trend?" | SRE |
| "Which databases are unencrypted?" | Data Ops / Database Management Ops |
For cross-domain questions ("are any of our overprovisioned instances also a security risk?"), Escher uses multiple skills together.
Composing across skills
This is where Escher gets interesting. Try:
"Find security findings on resources that are also our top cost drivers."
"Which compliance controls fail because of recent infrastructure drift?"
"Who owns the buckets that failed our last security review?"
Escher pulls signals from the relevant skills, correlates them, and returns one Canvas.
What's next
- FinOps
- SecOps
- Compliance
- Pricing — Basic vs Advanced