# microsoft/skills

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

Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/skills
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/microsoft-skills
Homepage: https://microsoft.github.io/skills/
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: agent-skills, agents, azure, foundry, mcp, sdk, skills
Last push: 2026-08-26T17:02:13+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 16
- inputs: {"age_days": 229, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2956, forks 338 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:32.091535+00:00)

## What it is
A curated collection of skills, custom agents, AGENTS.md templates, and MCP configurations from Microsoft that provide domain knowledge for AI coding agents working with Azure SDKs and Microsoft AI Foundry. Skills are installed into coding agents like GitHub Copilot CLI or VS Code Copilot to surface SDK-specific patterns and best practices on demand.

## Use cases
- add Azure SDK domain knowledge to GitHub Copilot or other coding agents
- install agent skills for Microsoft AI Foundry development
- configure MCP servers and AGENTS.md templates for coding agents
- get guidance for instrumenting apps with Application Insights
- set up AI model serving on AKS with a coding agent
- build Azure AI Foundry agents using the Agent Framework SDK
- share skills across multiple AI coding agent configurations

## When to choose
- you use coding agents like Copilot CLI, VS Code Copilot, or Claude Code with Azure SDKs
- you want curated, tested domain context for Microsoft AI Foundry and Azure services
- you need AGENTS.md templates or MCP configurations for your agent setup

## When to avoid
- you don't use AI coding agents in your workflow
- you work exclusively outside the Azure/Microsoft ecosystem
- you need a runtime library rather than agent context files

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, mcp, sdk, developer-tools, documentation
- domain: developer-tools, cloud-computing, large-language-models
- platform: python, cross-platform, cli
- tags: agent-skills, coding-agents, azure-sdk, microsoft-foundry, agents-md, copilot, context-engineering, skill-library, ai-agents, nodejs

## Member repositories
- microsoft/skills (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:32.091535+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:32:26.929494+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/microsoft/skills (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:32.091535+00:00, sha d3c5826552e3)
  - homepage: https://microsoft.github.io/skills/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:47:59.157986+00:00, sha e90e85a7df21)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.