What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you develop, debug, and secure Payload CMS projects by providing practical guidance for configuration, queries, hooks, access control, and common failure modes.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Use when working with Payload CMS: focuses on real development tasks across
payload.config.ts, collections, fields, hooks, and access control.
- Debug validation, security, and relationship issues: applies to diagnosing validation errors, hook behavior, and relationship query problems.
- Handle drafts, computed/virtual fields, conditional admin UI, and transactions: supports common production patterns like versioning workflows,
virtual fields via afterRead, conditional admin.condition, and transaction-safe nested operations using req.
Quick Start
Use the payload skill to implement an access-controlled Payload CMS collection with draft/publish versions, relationship queries, and transaction-safe hooks.