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    microsoft/skills

    Skills, MCP servers, Custom Agents, Agents.md for SDKs to ground Coding Agents

    cloud
    agent-skills
    agents
    azure
    foundry
    mcp
    TypeScript
    MIT
    3.2K stars
    360 forks
    3.2K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 31 contributors on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a collection of domain-specific skills, custom agents, and MCP server configurations to enhance AI coding agents with Azure SDK and Microsoft Foundry knowledge.
    • Enables AI coding agents to access precise, context-driven domain knowledge for Azure and Foundry SDKs, improving relevance and reducing context dilution.
    • Use for integrating specialized Azure SDK capabilities into AI coding agents to automate cloud resource management and development tasks.
    • Use for building and managing multi-agent workflows and hosted agents on Microsoft Foundry with declarative orchestration and identity management.
    • Use for creating custom AI coding agents with tailored skills and MCP server setups to support development in Python, .NET, TypeScript, and other languages.

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Code of conduct: present

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    From the README

    Skills, custom agents, AGENTS.md templates, and MCP configurations for AI coding agents working with Azure SDKs and Microsoft AI Foundry.

    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.

    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.

    Excerpt from the microsoft/skills README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    360+37

    Open issues

    82+16

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