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

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claude mcp add --transport http skills https://github.com/microsoft/mcp

A hosted server: nothing to install. Run /mcp in Claude Code to sign in if it asks.

[mcp_servers.skills]
url = "https://github.com/microsoft/mcp"

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skills": {
      "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "servers": {
    "skills": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://github.com/microsoft/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add to .vscode/mcp.json.

gemini mcp add --transport http skills https://github.com/microsoft/mcp

Saved to .gemini/settings.json.

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48 of 210 skills

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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

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.

Context-Driven Development Architecture

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

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`

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.

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	Discover, deploy, and manage models on Foundry — preset/customized deployments, capacity discovery, quota management, PTU vs pay-as-you-go.
foundry-hosted-agents	Build, deploy, and manage Foundry hosted agents — containerized agents exposing Responses or Invocations protocols, with per-agent Entra identity and dedicated endpoints.
foundry-toolboxes	Curate intent-based Foundry Toolboxes (preview) — a single MCP-compatible endpoint bundling tools (MCP, Web Search, AI Search, Code Interpreter, File Search, OpenAPI, A2A) for any agent to consume.
foundry-workflows	Build multi-agent workflows — declarative orchestration for handing off control between specialist agents, plus the Connected Agents pattern.
foundry-iq-knowledge-bases	Build Foundry IQ knowledge bases (preview) — multi-source, permission-aware grounding for agents using the agentic retrieval pipeline.
foundry-managed-skills	Manage SKILL.md files as a Foundry-side resource (preview) — author behavioral guidelines once, store via the Skills REST API, load into hosted agent containers.
foundry-memory	Build personalized Foundry agents with managed long-term memory (preview) — extract, consolidate, and retrieve user-specific context across sessions.
foundry-observability	Trace, monitor, and evaluate Foundry hosted agents end-to-end — OpenTelemetry GenAI traces in App Insights, eval-trace correlation, batch evals, regression detection.
foundry-governance	Govern Foundry agent fleets at scale — tool catalog visibility, AI Gateway MCP routing/policy, RBAC, agent identity, RAI policies on model deployments.

Python

39 skills • suffix: -py

Foundry & AI (5 skills)

Skill	Description
agent-framework-azure-ai-py	Agent Framework SDK — persistent agents, hosted tools, MCP servers, streaming.
azure-ai-contentsafety-py	Content Safety SDK — detect harmful content in text/images with multi-severity classification.
azure-ai-contentunderstanding-py	Content Understanding SDK — multimodal extraction from documents, images, audio, video.
azure-ai-projects-py	High-level Foundry SDK — project client, versioned agents, evals, connections, OpenAI-compatible clients.
azure-search-documents-py	AI Search SDK — vector search, hybrid search, semantic ranking, indexing, skillsets.

M365 (1 skill)

Skill	Description
m365-agents-py	Microsoft 365 Agents SDK — aiohttp hosting, AgentApplication routing, streaming, Copilot Studio client.

AI Services (8 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-ai-ml-py	ML SDK v2 — workspaces, jobs, models, datasets, compute, pipelines.
azure-ai-textanalytics-py	Text Analytics — sentiment, entities, key phrases, PII detection, healthcare NLP.
azure-ai-transcription-py	Transcription SDK — real-time and batch speech-to-text with timestamps, diarization.
azure-ai-translation-document-py	Document Translation — batch translate Word, PDF, Excel with format preservation.
azure-ai-translation-text-py	Text Translation — real-time translation, transliteration, language detection.
azure-ai-vision-imageanalysis-py	Vision SDK — captions, tags, objects, OCR, people detection, smart cropping.
azure-ai-voicelive-py	Voice Live SDK — real-time bidirectional voice AI with WebSocket, VAD, avatars.
azure-speech-to-text-rest-py	Speech to Text REST API — transcribe short audio (≤60 seconds) via HTTP without Speech SDK.

Data & Storage (7 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-cosmos-db-py	Cosmos DB patterns — FastAPI service layer, dual auth, partition strategies, TDD.
azure-cosmos-py	Cosmos DB SDK — document CRUD, queries, containers, globally distributed data.
azure-data-tables-py	Tables SDK — NoSQL key-value storage, entity CRUD, batch operations.
azure-storage-blob-py	Blob Storage — upload, download, list, containers, lifecycle management.
azure-storage-file-datalake-py	Data Lake Gen2 — hierarchical file systems, big data analytics.
azure-storage-file-share-py	File Share — SMB file shares, directories, cloud file operations.
azure-storage-queue-py	Queue Storage — reliable message queuing, task distribution.

Messaging & Events (4 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-eventgrid-py	Event Grid — publish events, CloudEvents, event-driven architectures.
azure-eventhub-py	Event Hubs — high-throughput streaming, producers, consumers, checkpointing.
azure-messaging-webpubsubservice-py	Web PubSub — real-time messaging, WebSocket connections, pub/sub.
azure-servicebus-py	Service Bus — queues, topics, subscriptions, enterprise messaging.

Entra (2 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-identity-py	Identity SDK — DefaultAzureCredential, managed identity, service principals.
azure-keyvault-py	Key Vault — secrets, keys, and certificates management.

Monitoring (4 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-monitor-ingestion-py	Monitor Ingestion — send custom logs via Logs Ingestion API.
azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter-py	OpenTelemetry Exporter — low-level export to Application Insights.
azure-monitor-opentelemetry-py	OpenTelemetry Distro — one-line App Insights setup with auto-instrumentation.
azure-monitor-query-py	Monitor Query — query Log Analytics workspaces and Azure metrics.

Integration & Management (5 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-appconfiguration-py	App Configuration — centralized config, feature flags, dynamic settings.
azure-containerregistry-py	Container Registry — manage container images, artifacts, repositories.
azure-mgmt-apicenter-py	API Center — API inventory, metadata, governance.
azure-mgmt-apimanagement-py	API Management — APIM services, APIs, products, policies.
azure-mgmt-botservice-py	Bot Service — create and manage Azure Bot resources.

Patterns & Frameworks (3 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-mgmt-fabric-py	Fabric Management — Microsoft Fabric capacities and resources.
fastapi-router-py	FastAPI routers — CRUD operations, auth dependencies, response models.
pydantic-models-py	Pydantic patterns — Base, Create, Update, Response, InDB model variants.

.NET

29 skills • suffix: -dotnet

Foundry & AI (6 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-ai-document-intelligence-dotnet	Document Intelligence — extract text, tables from invoices, receipts, IDs, forms.
azure-ai-openai-dotnet	Azure OpenAI — chat, embeddings, image generation, audio, assistants.
azure-ai-projects-dotnet	AI Projects SDK — Foundry project client, agents, connections, evals.
azure-ai-voicelive-dotnet	Voice Live — real-time voice AI with bidirectional WebSocket.
azure-mgmt-weightsandbiases-dotnet	Weights & Biases — ML experiment tracking via Azure Marketplace.
azure-search-documents-dotnet	AI Search — full-text, vector, semantic, hybrid search.

M365 (1 skill)

Skill	Description
m365-agents-dotnet	Microsoft 365 Agents SDK — ASP.NET Core hosting, AgentApplication routing, Copilot Studio client.

Data & Storage (6 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-mgmt-fabric-dotnet	Fabric ARM — provision, scale, suspend/resume Fabric capacities.
azure-resource-manager-cosmosdb-dotnet	Cosmos DB ARM — create accounts, databases, containers, RBAC.
azure-resource-manager-mysql-dotnet	MySQL Flexible Server — servers, databases, firewall, HA.
azure-resource-manager-postgresql-dotnet	PostgreSQL Flexible Server — servers, databases, firewall, HA.
azure-resource-manager-redis-dotnet	Redis ARM — cache instances, firewall, geo-replication.
azure-resource-manager-sql-dotnet	SQL ARM — servers, databases, elastic pools, failover groups.

Messaging (3 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-eventgrid-dotnet	Event Grid — publish events, CloudEvents, EventGridEvents.
azure-eventhub-dotnet	Event Hubs — high-throughput streaming, producers, processors.
azure-servicebus-dotnet	Service Bus — queues, topics, sessions, dead letter handling.

Entra (3 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-identity-dotnet	Identity SDK — DefaultAzureCredential, managed identity, service principals.
azure-security-keyvault-keys-dotnet	Key Vault Keys — key creation, rotation, encrypt/decrypt, sign/verify.
microsoft-azure-webjobs-extensions-authentication-events-dotnet	Entra Auth Events — custom claims, token enrichment, attribute collection.

Compute & Integration (6 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-maps-search-dotnet	Azure Maps — geocoding, routing, map tiles, weather.
azure-mgmt-apicenter-dotnet	API Center — API inventory, governance, versioning, discovery.
azure-mgmt-apimanagement-dotnet	API Management ARM — APIM services, APIs, products, policies.
azure-mgmt-botservice-dotnet	Bot Service ARM — bot resources, channels (Teams, DirectLine).
azure-resource-manager-durabletask-dotnet	Durable Task ARM — schedulers, task hubs, retention policies.
azure-resource-manager-playwright-dotnet	Playwright Testing ARM — workspaces, quotas.

Monitoring & Partner (3 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-mgmt-applicationinsights-dotnet	Application Insights — components, web tests, workbooks.
azure-mgmt-arizeaiobservabilityeval-dotnet	Arize AI — ML observability via Azure Marketplace.
azure-mgmt-mongodbatlas-dotnet	MongoDB Atlas — manage Atlas orgs as Azure ARM resources.

TypeScript

25 skills • suffix: -ts

Foundry & AI (6 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-ai-contentsafety-ts	Content Safety — moderate text/images, detect harmful content.
azure-ai-document-intelligence-ts	Document Intelligence — extract from invoices, receipts, IDs, forms.
azure-ai-projects-ts	AI Projects SDK — Foundry client, agents, connections, evals.
azure-ai-translation-ts	Translation — text translation, transliteration, document batch.
azure-ai-voicelive-ts	Voice Live — real-time voice AI with WebSocket, Node.js or browser.
azure-search-documents-ts	AI Search — vector/hybrid search, semantic ranking, knowledge bases.

M365 (1 skill)

Skill	Description
m365-agents-ts	Microsoft 365 Agents SDK — AgentApplication routing, Express hosting, streaming, Copilot Studio client.

Data & Storage (5 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-cosmos-ts	Cosmos DB — document CRUD, queries, bulk operations.
azure-postgres-ts	PostgreSQL — connect to Azure Database for PostgreSQL with pg, pooling, Entra ID auth.
azure-storage-blob-ts	Blob Storage — upload, download, list, SAS tokens, streaming.
azure-storage-file-share-ts	File Share — SMB shares, directories, file operations.
azure-storage-queue-ts	Queue Storage — send, receive, peek, visibility timeout.

Messaging (3 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-eventhub-ts	Event Hubs — high-throughput streaming, partitioned consumers.
azure-servicebus-ts	Service Bus — queues, topics, sessions, dead-letter handling.
azure-web-pubsub-ts	Web PubSub — WebSocket real-time features, group chat, notifications.

Entra & Integration (4 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-appconfiguration-ts	App Configuration — settings, feature flags, Key Vault references.
azure-identity-ts	Identity SDK — DefaultAzureCredential, managed identity, browser login.
azure-keyvault-keys-ts	Key Vault Keys — create, encrypt/decrypt, sign, rotate keys.
azure-keyvault-secrets-ts	Key Vault Secrets — store and retrieve application secrets.

Monitoring & Frontend (5 skills)

Skill	Description
azure-microsoft-playwright-testing-ts	Playwright Testing — scale browser tests, CI/CD integration.
azure-monitor-opentelemetry-ts	OpenTelemetry — tracing, metrics, logs with Application Insights.
frontend-ui-dark-ts	Frontend UI Dark — Vite + React + Tailwind + Framer Motion dark-themed UI design system.
react-flow-node-ts	React Flow nodes — custom nodes with TypeScript, handles, Zustand.
zustand-store-ts	Zustand stores — TypeScript, subscribeWithSelector, state/action separation.

Infrastructure & Orchestration (1 skill)

Skill	Description
aspire-ts	.NET Aspire orchestration — AddViteApp, AddNodeApp, AddJavaScriptApp, service discovery, telemetry, deployment.

Java

26 skills • suffix: -java

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