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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What's Inside

Resource	Description
174 Skills	Domain-specific knowledge for Azure SDK and Foundry development
Plugins	Installable plugin packages (deep-wiki, azure 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

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Skill Catalog

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

Language	Count	Suffix
Core	11	—
Foundry (Language-Agnostic)	11	—
Python	39	-py
.NET	28	-dotnet
TypeScript	25	-ts
Java	25	-java
Rust	7	-rust

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Core

11 skills — tooling, infrastructure, language-agnostic

Skill	Description
cloud-solution-architect	Design well-architected Azure cloud systems. Architecture styles, 44 design patterns, technology choices, mission-critical design, WAF pillars.
copilot-sdk	Build applications powered by GitHub Copilot using the Copilot SDK. Session management, custom tools, streaming, hooks, MCP servers, BYOK, deployment patterns.
debugview	Sysinternals DebugView CLI — capture and analyze usermode/kernel-mode Windows debug output. Bounded execution, filtering, boot logging, remote monitoring.
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	Review and create distinctive frontend interfaces. Design system compliance, quality pillars, accessibility, and creative aesthetics.
github-issue-creator	Convert raw notes, error logs, or screenshots into structured GitHub issues.
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	Build MCP servers for LLM tool integration. Python (FastMCP), Node/TypeScript, or C#/.NET.
podcast-generation	Generate podcast-style audio with Azure OpenAI Realtime API. Full-stack React + FastAPI + WebSocket.
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	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	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