skills
Provides standardized patterns for building coding agents that can reliably ground themselves in project context, reducing hallucination and enabling safer, …
Microsoft's official collection of skills, custom agents, AGENTS.md templates, and MCP configurations for AI coding agents working with Azure SDKs and Microsoft AI Foundry — 175 skills across Python, .NET, TypeScript, Java, and Rust. Install selected skills with 'npx skills add microsoft/skills'; they land in your agent's skills directory (e.g. .github/skills/ for Copilot) and can be symlinked into .claude/skills for Claude Code.
- 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
How to Get It
npx skills add microsoft/skills
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After installing, paste this into Claude:
Help me define reusable code analysis skills for multiple agents
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Reviewer notes
Reviewed review. These are observations, not a security certification.
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.
Things to check
- Repository is a work in progress under active development. Microsoft explicitly warns against loading all skills at once — it causes context rot (diluted attention, wasted tokens, conflated patterns); copy only the skills essential to your current project. Content is Azure/Microsoft-stack specific.
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