# Platform administration

Source: https://cumulocity.com/docs/skills/platform-administration/

Agent skills for platform administration tasks, such as authenticating REST API requests.

- [Authenticate REST API requests](https://cumulocity.com/docs/skills/platform-administration/authentication/index.md): Send authenticated requests to the Cumulocity REST API with basic authentication or an OAI-Secure access token, check the credentials, and keep them out of logs and replies.