microsoft/skills

microsoft/skills

Description: Skills, MCP servers, Custom Agents, Agents.md for SDKs to ground Coding Agents

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Agent Skills

> [!NOTE] > Work in Progress — This repository is under active development. More skills are being added, existing skills are being updated to use the latest SDK patterns, and tests are being expanded to ensure quality. Contributions welcome!

Skills, custom agents, AGENTS.md templates, and MCP configurations for AI coding agents working with Azure SDKs and Microsoft AI Foundry.

> Blog post: Context-Driven Development: Agent Skills for Microsoft Foundry and Azure

> 🔍 Skill Explorer: Browse all 175 skills with 1-click install

Quick Start

npx skills add microsoft/skills

Select the skills you need from the wizard. Skills are installed to your chosen agent's directory (e.g., .github/skills/ for GitHub Copilot) and symlinked if you use multiple agents.

Alternative installation methods

Manual installation (git clone)

# Clone and copy specific skills
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/skills.git
cp -r agent-skills/.github/skills/azure-cosmos-db-py your-project/.github/skills/

# Or use symlinks for multi-project setups
ln -s /path/to/agent-skills/.github/skills/mcp-builder /path/to/your-project/.github/skills/mcp-builder

# Share skills across different agent configs in the same repo
ln -s ../.github/skills .opencode/skills
ln -s ../.github/skills .claude/skills

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Coding agents like Copilot CLI and GitHub Copilot in VS Code are powerful, but they lack domain knowledge about your SDKs. The patterns are already in their weights from pretraining. All you need is the right activation context to surface them.

> [!IMPORTANT] > Use skills selectively. Loading all skills causes context rot: diluted attention, wasted tokens, conflated patterns. Only copy skills essential for your current project.

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!Context-Driven Development Architecture

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What's Inside

| Resource | Description | |----------|-------------| | [174 Skills](#skill-catalog) | Domain-specific knowledge for Azure SDK and Foundry development | | [Plugins](#plugins) | Installable plugin packages (deep-wiki, azure and more) | | [Custom Agents](#agents) | Role-specific agents (backend, frontend, infrastructure, planner) | | [AGENTS.md](AGENTS.md) | Template for configuring agent behavior in your projects | | [MCP Configs](#mcp-servers) | Pre-configured servers for docs, GitHub, browser automation | | [Documentation](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/#documentation) | Repo docs and usage guides |

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Skill Catalog

> 175 skills across language plugins — see [skill catalog](#skill-catalog) below for the full breakdown

| Language | Count | Suffix | |----------|-------|--------| | [Core](#core) | 11 | — | | [Foundry (Language-Agnostic)](#foundry-language-agnostic) | 11 | — | | [Python](#python) | 39 | -py | | [.NET](#net) | 28 | -dotnet | | [TypeScript](#typescript) | 25 | -ts | | [Java](#java) | 25 | -java | | [Rust](#rust) | 7 | -rust |

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Core

> 11 skills — tooling, infrastructure, language-agnostic

| Skill | Description | |-------|-------------| | [cloud-solution-architect](.github/skills/cloud-solution-architect/) | Design well-architected Azure cloud systems. Architecture styles, 44 design patterns, technology choices, mission-critical design, WAF pillars. | | [copilot-sdk](.github/skills/copilot-sdk/) | Build applications powered by GitHub Copilot using the Copilot SDK. Session management, custom tools, streaming, hooks, MCP servers, BYOK, deployment patterns. | | [debugview](.github/skills/debugview/) | Sysinternals DebugView CLI — capture and analyze usermode/kernel-mode Windows debug output. Bounded execution, filtering, boot logging, remote monitoring. | | [entra-agent-id](.github/skills/entra-agent-id/) | Microsoft Entra Agent ID (preview) — create OAuth2-capable AI agent identities via Microsoft Graph beta API. Blueprints, BlueprintPrincipals, permissions, WIF. | | [frontend-design-review](.github/skills/frontend-design-review/) | Review and create distinctive frontend interfaces. Design system compliance, quality pillars, accessibility, and creative aesthetics. | | [github-issue-creator](.github/skills/github-issue-creator/) | Convert raw notes, error logs, or screenshots into structured GitHub issues. | | [github-primer-brand](.github/skills/github-primer-brand/) | Design GitHub-branded marketing surfaces with @primer/react-brand. Color, typography, layout, components, theming, motion, voice, and anti-patterns for landing pages, launch sites, and campaign surfaces. | | [mcp-builder](.github/skills/mcp-builder/) | Build MCP servers for LLM tool integration. Python (FastMCP), Node/TypeScript, or C#/.NET. | | [podcast-generation](.github/skills/podcast-generation/) | Generate podcast-style audio with Azure OpenAI Realtime API. Full-stack React + FastAPI + WebSocket. | | [skill-creator](.github/skills/skill-creator/) | Guide for creating effective skills for AI coding agents. |

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Foundry (Language-Agnostic)

> 11 skills — Microsoft Foundry agent platform (preview), language-agnostic via azd, az CLI, and Foundry MCP

| Skill | Description | |-------|-------------| | [microsoft-foundry](.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/microsoft-foundry/) | Router skill for the Foundry agent platform — maps user intent onto the right sub-skill and discovery surface (Microsoft Docs MCP, Foundry MCP, azd ai agent, az CLI). | | [foundry-projects-resources](.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/foundry-projects-resources/) | Provision Foundry resources/projects, configure project connections (key, OAuth, managed identity, agent identity), and set up standard or private-network agent infrastructure. | | [foundry-models](.github/plugins/azure-skills/skills/foundry-models/) | Discover, deploy, and manage models on Foundry...