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> [!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

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

Skill Catalog

> 175 skills across language plugins — see skill catalog below for the full breakdown

Core

> 11 skills — tooling, infrastructure, language-agnostic

Foundry (Language-Agnostic)

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

Python

> 39 skills • suffix: -py

Foundry & AI (5 skills)

M365 (1 skill)

AI Services (8 skills)

Data & Storage (7 skills)

Messaging & Events (4 skills)

Entra (2 skills)

Monitoring (4 skills)

Integration & Management (5 skills)

Patterns & Frameworks (3 skills)

.NET

> 29 skills • suffix: -dotnet

Foundry & AI (6 skills)

M365 (1 skill)

Data & Storage (6 skills)

Messaging (3 skills)

Entra (3 skills)

Compute & Integration (6 skills)

Monitoring & Partner (3 skills)

TypeScript

> 25 skills • suffix: -ts

Foundry & AI (6 skills)

M365 (1 skill)

Data & Storage (5 skills)

Messaging (3 skills)

Entra & Integration (4 skills)

Monitoring & Frontend (5 skills)

Infrastructure & Orchestration (1 skill)

Java

> 26 skills • suffix: -java

Foundry & AI (7 skills)

Communication (5 skills)

Data & Storage (3 skills)

Messaging (3 skills)

Entra (3 skills)

Monitoring & Integration (5 skills)

Rust

> 7 skills • suffix: -rust

Entra (4 skills)

Data & Storage (2 skills)

Messaging (1 skill)

Repository Structure

AGENTS.md                # Agent configuration template

.github/
├── skills/              # Backward-compat symlinks to plugin skills
├── plugins/             # Language-based plugin bundles (azure-sdk-python, etc.)
│   └── azure-sdk-*/     # Each bundle has skills/, commands/, agents/
├── prompts/             # Reusable prompt templates
├── agents/              # Agent persona definitions
├── scripts/             # Automation scripts (doc scraping)
├── workflows/           # GitHub Actions (daily doc updates)
└── copilot-instructions.md

docs/                    # Generated llms.txt files (daily workflow) - GitHub Pages hosted
├── llms.txt             # Links + summaries
└── llms-full.txt        # Full content

skills/                  # Symlinks for backward compatibility
├── python/              # -> ../.github/skills/*-py
…

Plugins

Plugins are installable packages containing curated sets of agents, commands, and skills. Install via the Copilot CLI: