skills
Skills, MCP servers, Custom Agents, Agents.md for SDKs to ground Coding Agents
- Define reusable code analysis skills for multiple agents
- Create standardized refactoring patterns agents can apply
- Share coding workflows across team MCP servers
Provides standardized patterns for building coding agents that can reliably ground themselves in project context, reducing hallucination and enabling safer, more predictable automation of development tasks.
Teams building internal coding agents or AI-assisted development platforms who need reproducible, maintainable agent behavior across codebases.
https://github.com/microsoft/skills
By microsoft
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Reviewer notes
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Auto-assessment from April sweep — baseline scores pending hands-on review.
2026-04-18: Approved in April sweep: Mega-popular, battle-tested by a large community.
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