# How to Automate CockroachDB Operations with AI Using Cockroach University

DevFeed: [How to Automate CockroachDB Operations with AI Using Cockroach University](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-to-automate-cockroachdb-operations-with-ai-using-cockroach-university-23744.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://cockroachlabs.com/blog/ai-cockroachdb-training-courses>)

Author: Nathan Zamecnik

Published: 2026-07-13T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Cockroach Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/cockroach-labs.md>)

Topics: [CockroachDB](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cockroachdb.md>), [Agent Skills](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/agent-skills.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/maintenance.md>), [Claude Code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude-code.md>), [Disaster Recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/disaster-recovery.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/observability.md>)

Tags: [agent-skills](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agent-skills.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [claude-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/claude-code.md>), [cockroachdb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cockroachdb.md>), [disaster-recovery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/disaster-recovery.md>), [maintenance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/maintenance.md>), [observability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/observability.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

The article describes CockroachDB Agent Skills, a public repository of machine-executable operational workflows that AI agents such as Claude Code and Cursor can use. It also introduces three Cockroach University courses covering rolling restarts, encryption at rest, and planned node maintenance, along with a free trial of the CockroachDB Training Subscription.

## Source excerpt

AI agents aren't just changing how applications interact with databases, they're changing how teams operate them.