# microsoft/skills

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2,568 stars · 296 forks · TypeScript · MIT

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/skills
- Homepage: https://microsoft.github.io/skills/
- awesome-repositories: https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/microsoft-skills.md

## Topics

`agent-skills` `agents` `azure` `foundry` `mcp` `sdk` `skills`

## Tags

### Part of an Awesome List

- [AI Agent Frameworks](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/ai/ai-agent-frameworks.md) — Provides an extensible framework for building, deploying, and managing AI agents that interact with Azure services.
- [NoSQL CRUD Operations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/data/nosql-and-caching/nosql-crud-operations.md) — Performs CRUD operations and queries on globally distributed NoSQL data using Cosmos DB. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Live Debugging Tools](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/devops/monitoring-and-health/azure-resource-monitoring/live-debugging-tools.md) — Provides interactive tools for diagnosing and resolving live production issues on Azure. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Skill Creation Tools](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/devtools/skill-creation-tools.md) — Guides creation of new skills with a defined workflow including naming, categorization, and test creation. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))

### Artificial Intelligence & ML

- [Azure SDK Skill Catalogs](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/agent-skill-catalogs/azure-sdk-skill-catalogs.md) — Provides a searchable collection of over 175 domain-specific skills for Azure SDK and Foundry development.
- [Iterative Quality Validators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/agent-skill-configurations/skill-quality-validators/iterative-quality-validators.md) — Evaluates and re-generates code iteratively until it meets defined quality thresholds. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))
- [AI Agent Development](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/ai-agent-development.md) — Provides a framework for building persistent AI agents with thread and tool management. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Agent Persona Configurations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/agent-persona-configurations.md) — Provides role-specific agent templates for backend, frontend, infrastructure, and planning tasks. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))
- [Agent Skill Catalogs](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/agent-skill-catalogs.md) — Provides a searchable catalog of over 175 domain-specific skills for Azure SDK and Foundry development. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))
- [Skill Installation](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/agentic-systems-frameworks/agent-capabilities-skills-tooling/agent-skill-frameworks/skill-installation.md) — Installs curated skill packages for Azure SDK and Foundry development via the Copilot CLI plugin marketplace. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))
- [Document Translators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/artificial-intelligence-tooling/language-model-integrations/translation-services/document-translators.md) — Converts text or entire documents between languages while preserving original formatting. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Conversational Voice AI](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/conversational-voice-ai.md) — Enables bidirectional audio conversations with AI using WebSocket for voice assistants and chatbots.
- [Image Content Analyzers](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/image-content-analyzers.md) — Generates captions, tags, and object detections from images, and extracts text via OCR. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Multi-Provider Abstractions](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/model-provider-integrations/multi-provider-abstractions.md) — Provides unified interfaces abstracting multiple Azure AI services behind a common execution model.
- [Real-Time Speech Transcribers](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/speech-to-text-libraries/real-time-speech-transcribers.md) — Converts audio to text in real-time or batch with speaker diarization and timestamps. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [WebSocket](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/artificial-intelligence-ml/voice-assistants/websocket.md) — Enables bidirectional audio conversations with AI via WebSocket for real-time voice assistants. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))

### DevOps & Infrastructure

- [Infrastructure Template Generators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-deployment-automation/azure-deployment-automators/azure-infrastructure-deployments/infrastructure-template-generators.md) — Generates Bicep or Terraform templates for multi-resource Azure topologies aligned with best practices. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Azure Resource Management](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-infrastructure/infrastructure-provisioning-management/azure-resource-management.md) — Integrates with Azure services for cloud resource management, deployments, and cost optimization. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))
- [Azure Deployment Automators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-deployment-automation/azure-deployment-automators.md) — Runs deployment commands for already-prepared applications using infrastructure-as-code templates. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [AKS](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/cloud-infrastructure-deployment/model-deployments/aks.md) — Deploys AI models on AKS with GPU assessment and cluster verification for production inference. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Infrastructure-as-Code Templates](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/infrastructure-as-code-templates.md) — Generates Bicep and Terraform templates for Azure resource topologies based on user requirements.
- [High-Performance Batch Jobs](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/job-scheduling/high-performance-batch-jobs.md) — Executes large-scale parallel and HPC batch jobs on Azure using pools, jobs, and tasks. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Azure Batch Job Executors](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/job-scheduling/high-performance-batch-jobs/azure-batch-job-executors.md) — Executes large-scale parallel and HPC batch jobs on Azure using pools, jobs, and tasks.
- [Cloud Cost Analytics](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/resource-cost-management/cloud-cost-analytics.md) — Provides cost analytics and forecasting capabilities for Azure cloud spending. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Virtual Machine Managers](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/devops-infrastructure/virtual-machine-managers.md) — Manages Azure virtual machines and scale sets with autoscaling and connectivity troubleshooting. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))

### Networking & Communication

- [Conversation State Managers](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/networking-communication/messaging-channel-management/history-retrieval/thread-state-history/agent-thread-state-persistence/conversation-state-managers.md) — Ships a conversation state manager that maintains agent context across multiple threads.

### Software Engineering & Architecture

- [Feedback-Loop Generators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/compile-time-code-generation/iterative-code-generation/feedback-loop-generators.md) — Implements a feedback-loop code generation pipeline that iterates until quality thresholds are met. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))
- [Assistant Skill Plugins](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/integration-extensibility/extensibility/third-party-plugins/assistant-skill-plugins.md) — Ships self-contained skill modules with defined inputs, outputs, and tests that compose into workflows.
- [Application Configuration](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/application-lifecycle-management/configuration-management/configuration-scopes/application-configuration.md) — Centralizes key-value settings and feature flags for dynamic application configuration. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [CloudEvents Implementations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/event-driven-architectures/cloudevents-implementations.md) — Implements CloudEvents-based publish-subscribe messaging for decoupled event processing.
- [CloudEvents Publishers](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/software-engineering-architecture/event-sourcing/event-consumers/cloudevents-publishers.md) — Implements CloudEvents-based publish-subscribe messaging for event-driven architectures. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))

### Testing & Quality Assurance

- [Skill Output Validators](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/testing-quality-assurance/software-testing/test-execution-orchestration/test-case-generators/automated-test-code-generation/code-correctness-testings/skill-output-validators.md) — Validates skill-generated code against acceptance criteria to ensure correct code patterns. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))

### Content Management & Publishing

- [Document Data Extraction](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/content-management-publishing/content-processing-transformation/document-processing-conversion/document-processing/data-extraction-analysis/document-data-extraction.md) — Pulls text, tables, and structured data from documents like invoices and receipts. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))

### Data & Databases

- [Event Streaming Platforms](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/data-databases/event-streaming-platforms.md) — Ingests and processes large volumes of real-time event data with checkpointing and partition management.
- [Checkpointed Event Processing](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/data-databases/high-throughput-data-streaming/checkpointed-event-processing.md) — Provides checkpointed event processing with partition management for high-throughput streams. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))

### Development Tools & Productivity

- [Feedback-Loop Pipelines](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/code-generation-pipelines/feedback-loop-pipelines.md) — Implements a feedback-loop pipeline that iteratively refines generated code against quality criteria.
- [Interactive CLI Wizards](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/interactive-cli-wizards.md) — Provides interactive CLI wizards for guiding users through multi-step installation and configuration processes.
- [Pre-Configured Plugin Bundles](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/development-tools-productivity/package-installers/command-based-package-installation/plugin-package-managers/pre-configured-plugin-bundles.md) — Ships a CLI command to install pre-configured plugin bundles for specific workflows. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))

### Security & Cryptography

- [Azure Compliance Scanners](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/security-cryptography/compliance-auditing/azure-compliance-scanners.md) — Scans Azure resources for compliance violations and expired secrets to assess security posture. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Harmful Content Filters](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/security-cryptography/harmful-content-filters.md) — Detects hate, violence, sexual content, and self-harm in text and images using multi-severity classification. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [AI Agent Role Assignments](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/security-cryptography/role-based-access-control/workspace-role-assignments/ai-agent-role-assignments.md) — Provides role-specific agent templates for backend, frontend, infrastructure, and planning tasks. ([source](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/microsoft/skills@main/README.md))

### System Administration & Monitoring

- [Application Insights Instrumentation](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/system-administration-monitoring/application-observability/application-insights-instrumentation.md) — Ships an SDK-based instrumentation layer for adding telemetry to web applications. ([source](https://microsoft.github.io/skills/))
- [Application Insights Instrumentations](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/system-administration-monitoring/diagnostic-tools/diagnostics/telemetry-and-log-collectors/application-insights-instrumentations.md) — Instruments Application Insights telemetry for monitoring application performance and health.