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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 132 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
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.
What's Inside
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| 128 Skills | Domain-specific knowledge for Azure SDK and Foundry development |
| Plugins | Installable plugin packages (deep-wiki, azure-skills and more) |
| Custom Agents | Role-specific agents (backend, frontend, infrastructure, planner) |
| AGENTS.md | Template for configuring agent behavior in your projects |
| MCP Configs | Pre-configured servers for docs, GitHub, browser automation |
| Documentation | Repo docs and usage guides |
Skill Catalog
132 skills in
.github/skills/— flat structure with language suffixes for automatic discovery
| Language | Count | Suffix |
|---|---|---|
| Core | 9 | — |
| Python | 41 | -py |
| .NET | 28 | -dotnet |
| TypeScript | 25 | -ts |
| Java | 25 | -java |
| Rust | 7 | -rust |
Core
9 skills — tooling, infrastructure, language-agnostic