Use when the user wants to trigger, describe, or list refresh jobs for an external collection (a collection backed by an external data source such as Vector Lake). Note this is the data-plane refresh workflow, not collection CRUD -- for create/drop/load see the collection skill.
Install
npx skills add zilliztech/zilliz-plugin --skill external-collectionnpx skills add zilliztech/zilliz-plugin --skill external-collection -a claude-code -gnpx skills add zilliztech/zilliz-plugin --skill external-collection -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/zilliztech/zilliz-plugin.git --path plugins/zilliz/skills/external-collectiongh skill install zilliztech/zilliz-plugin external-collectiongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zilliztech/zilliz-plugin /tmp/zilliztech__zilliz-plugin
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/zilliztech__zilliz-plugin/plugins/zilliz/skills/external-collection ~/.claude/skills/external-collection # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/zilliztech__zilliz-plugin/plugins/zilliz/skills/external-collection ~/.agents/skills/external-collection # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode