Open source projects and samples from Microsoft
Microsoft publishes skills that help AI agents work on Azure reliability, such as hardening workloads for availability and finding Azure OpenAI model capacity and quota across regions. Its skills also cover code review of pull requests and diffs, AKS troubleshooting against known issues, Copilot chat mode authoring, agent hooks, and building PowerPoint decks from Design Thinking artifacts. The collection stands out for pairing cloud operations work with developer workflow and authoring tasks.
Vscode
79 skills · 194,938 stars · MIT
Accessibility Primary accessibility skill for VS Code.
Act On Feedback Act on user feedback attached to the current session.
Agent Customization **WORKFLOW SKILL** — Create, update, review, fix, or debug VS Code agent customization files (.in…
Agent Host Chat Contributions Build and review cross-cutting agent-host chat behavior through lifecycle contributions.
Agent Host E2E Tests Use when writing, recording, updating, validating, or troubleshooting Agent Host end-to-end and r…
Agent Host Logs Analyze Agent Host debug log exports.
Author Contributions Identify all files a specific author contributed to on a branch vs its upstream, tracing code thr…
Auto Perf Optimize Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations.
Azure Pipelines Use when validating Azure DevOps pipeline changes for the VS Code build.
Build Champ Triage Find out why a build has failed
Chat Customizations Editor Use when working on the Chat Customizations editor — the management UI for agents, skills, instru…
Chat Perf Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS C…
Chat Pet Sprite Creation Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye t…
Chronicle Analyze Copilot session history for standup reports, usage tips, session search, and session rein…
Ci Artifact Testing Use when validating an upstream pull request or dependency fix against VS Code tests using GitHub…
Code Oss Logs Find and read timestamped process logs from Code OSS dev builds, including main.log, renderer.log…
Code Review Perform a code review of the current session's changes.
Code Review Review code changes for correctness, regressions, and unintended scope.
Codenotify Adds the user's GitHub handle to the .github/CODENOTIFY file, mapping their contributions from git b
Commit Commit staged or unstaged changes with an AI-generated commit message that matches the repository…
Component Help author a component specification for an agent.
Component Fixtures Use when creating or updating component fixtures for screenshot testing or their shared infrastru…
Cpu Profile Analysis Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-*.json).
Create Agent Create a custom agent (.agent.md) for a specific job.
Create Canvas Create a project Copilot extension canvas for the current workspace.
Create Draft Pr Create a draft pull request for the current session.
Create Hook Create a hook (.json) to enforce policy or automate agent lifecycle events.
Create Instructions Create an instructions file (.instructions.md) for a project rule or convention.
Create Pr Create a pull request for the current session.
Create Prompt Create a reusable prompt file (.prompt.md) for a common task.
Create Skill Create a reusable skill (SKILL.md) that packages a workflow.
Customizations In The Agent Host Architecture and hard-won debugging lessons for customization enablement (plugins, MCP servers, a…
Design Philosophy The VS Code design philosophy — a shared Values→Principles→Moves vocabulary for reasoning about U…
Doc Comments Updates JSDoc-style doc comments in TypeScript and JavaScript source files, such as VS Code extensio
Experiments Use when adding, changing, or reviewing a VS Code A/B experiment, either an experiment-controlled…
Feature Tryouts Use when adding, reviewing, or troubleshooting an interactive release-note Try This experience, i…
Feedback Learning Classify and record explicit corrective feedback without turning skills or instructions into appe…
Fix Ci Fix the failed CI checks for the current session.
Fix Ci Failures Investigate and fix CI failures on a pull request.
Fixissueno Retrieves a GitHub issue by its number using the get_issue tool, reads the issue details, and propos
Flaky Smoke Tests Diagnose intermittent VS Code Electron smoke-test failures from the Azure DevOps Flaky Smoke Test…
Generate Run Commands Generate or modify run commands for the current session.
Get Search View Results Get the current search results from the Search view in VS Code
Github Copilot Upgrader Use this to update the Github Copilot CLI/SDK
Heap Snapshot Analysis Analyze V8 heap snapshots to investigate memory leaks and retention issues.
Init Generate or update chat customization files for AI coding agents
Install Vscode Extension How to install a VS Code extension from an extension ID.
Integrated Browser Use this when working on the VS Code integrated browser ("browserView") to understand its archite…
Playwright
8 skills · 99,463 stars · Apache-2.0
Playwright Cherry Pick Cherry-pick a commit or PR from main into a release branch (release-<version>) and retitle it as…
Playwright Cli Automate browser interactions, test web pages and work with Playwright tests.
Playwright Component Testing Set up component testing with Playwright using a story gallery — scaffold stories and a gallery d…
Playwright Dev Explains how to develop Playwright - add APIs, MCP tools, CLI commands, and vendor dependencies.
Playwright Devops DevOps workflows for Playwright - CI failure analysis, workflow debugging, and release operations.
Playwright Test Results Query Playwright CI test results from the aggregated DuckDB database.
Playwright Trace Inspect Playwright trace files from the command line — list actions, view requests, console, erro…
Playwright Triage Triage a Playwright bug report by reproducing it from the information in the issue.
Playwright Cli
2 skills · 15,007 stars · Apache-2.0
Dev Development workflows for the playwright-cli repository.
Playwright Cli Automate browser interactions, test web pages and work with Playwright tests.
Azure Skills
55 skills · 1,623 stars · MIT
Airunway Aks Setup Set up AI Runway on AKS — from bare cluster to running model.
Aks Gpu Inference Diagnose Day-2 AKS GPU and KAITO incidents using profile-aware, read-only evidence.
Aks Known Issues Lookup documented AKS fixes only when the prompt includes an exact catalog signature and all of i…
Aks Network Capture Collects bounded packet captures from AKS nodes and Azure network configuration for wire-level ev…
Aks Troubleshooting Debug live Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) incidents with a read-only, evidence-first investigation.
Appinsights Instrumentation Guidance for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights.
Azure Advisor Use Azure Advisor recommendations.
Azure Advisor Actionability Remediate Azure Advisor recommendations.
Azure Ai Use for Azure AI: Search, Speech, OpenAI, Document Intelligence.
Azure Aigateway Configure Azure API Management as an AI Gateway for AI models, MCP tools, and agents.
Azure App Onboard End-to-end orchestrator: from a business idea, app idea, or existing app to running Azure deploym…
Azure App Onboard Prereq Assess whether source code is ready to deploy to Azure — the check BEFORE infrastructure work.
Azure Cloud Migrate Assess and migrate cross-cloud workloads to Azure with reports and code conversion.
Azure Compliance Run Azure compliance and security audits with azqr plus Key Vault expiration checks.
Azure Compute Azure VM/VMSS router.
Azure Deploy Execute Azure deployments for ALREADY-PREPARED applications that have existing .azure/deployment-…
Azure Diagnostics Debug Azure production issues on Azure using AppLens, Azure Monitor, resource health, and safe tr…
Azure Enterprise Infra Planner Architect and provision enterprise Azure infrastructure from workload descriptions.
Azure Kubernetes Plan, create, and configure production-ready Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters.
Azure Kubernetes App Deploy Use when deploying an existing web application or API to an already-running Azure Kubernetes Serv…
Azure Kubernetes Automatic Readiness Assess Kubernetes workloads and cluster configuration for AKS Automatic compatibility.
Azure Kusto Query and analyze data in Azure Data Explorer (Kusto/ADX) using KQL for log analytics, telemetry,…
Azure Kusto Graph Build and query Kusto graphs from natural language.
Azure Kusto Irql Compose IRQL (Incident Response Query Language) queries for Kusto cybersecurity investigations.
Azure Kusto Irql Graph Apply IRQL graph functions to KQL or IRQL query results for Kusto Explorer visualization.
Azure Local Plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI): sizing and prereq…
Azure Local Multi Rack Plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot multi-rack (rack scale) deployments of Azure Local — prei…
Azure Messaging Troubleshoot and resolve issues with Azure Messaging SDKs for Event Hubs and Service Bus.
Azure Prepare Prepare azd-based Azure projects for deployment: generates azure.yaml, infrastructure (Bicep/Terr…
Azure Quotas Check/manage Azure quotas and usage across providers.
Azure Reliability Assess and improve the reliability posture of PaaS Applications (Azure Functions and Azure App Se…
Azure Resource Lookup List, find, and show Azure resources across subscriptions or resource groups.
Azure Resource Visualizer Analyze Azure resource groups and generate detailed Mermaid architecture diagrams showing the rel…
Azure Search Nav Builds an Azure portal deep link to a specific blade/menu item for supported Microsoft.ContainerS…
Azure Storage Azure Storage Services including Blob Storage, File Shares, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Dat…
Azure Upgrade Assess and upgrade Azure workloads between plans, tiers, or SKUs, or modernize Azure SDK dependen…
Azure Validate Pre-deployment validation for Azure readiness.
Capacity Discovers available Azure OpenAI model capacity across regions and projects.
Cost Analysis Analyze actual Azure spend, bill changes, and AKS or AI costs.
Cost Estimation Forecast Azure spend and price planned resources or workloads.
Cost Governance Govern Azure costs with budgets, alerts, tags, and policy restrictions.
Cost Optimization Optimize existing Azure resources and analyze Reservations or Savings Plans.
Customize Interactive guided deployment flow for Azure OpenAI models with full customization control.
Deploy Executes validated Infrastructure-as-Code (Bicep/ARM) against Azure via az CLI, including what-if pr
Deploy Model Unified Azure OpenAI model deployment skill with intelligent intent-based routing.
Discover Azure Skills Searches the Azure skills catalog and recommends installable agent skills by matching an Azure ta…
Entra Agent Id Provision Microsoft Entra Agent Identity Blueprints, BlueprintPrincipals, and per-instance Agent…
Entra App Registration Guides Microsoft Entra ID app registration, OAuth 2.0 authentication, and MSAL integration.
Hve Core
87 skills · 1,605 stars · MIT
Accessibility Consolidated accessibility skill entrypoint for WCAG 2.2, ARIA Authoring Practices, cognitive acc…
Accessibility Coverage Matrix Build, refresh, report, or probe an accessibility coverage matrix across criteria, surfaces, and…
Adr Author Authoring skill for Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) supporting capture, from-planner-handoff…
Analysis Authoring Authoring conventions for exploratory data analysis notebooks and analytical dashboards, covering…
Architecture Diagrams Architecture diagram authoring for cloud infrastructure and declared data catalogs.
Architecture Review Create a durable Architecture Review Record from a confirmed System Architecture Reviewer scope,…
Backlog Execute Mutating backlog execution for Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Jira.
Backlog Management Shared backlog conventions for Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Jira.
Backlog Plan Read-only backlog planning for Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Jira.
Backlog Templates Shared work-item templates and conventions for ADO and GitHub backlog handoff across the RAI, Sec…
Build customer card .pptx decks in PowerPoint and DeckCraft Turn Design Thinking artifacts into customer card slides and a finished .pptx deck.
Build PowerPoint and DeckCraft .pptx slide decks from YAML Generate and update .pptx slide decks from YAML content and style files
C4 Architecture Model and document existing or planned software architectures with the C4 model across System Con…
Caveman Ultra-compressed response style that reduces output token count while preserving technical accura…
Code Review Review code changes from multiple perspectives with context bootstrap, depth-tier rigor, and stru…
Copilot Otel Metrics Set up GitHub Copilot OpenTelemetry capture: configure the VS Code export settings, generate a lo…
Cspell Config Create or update project cspell configuration by resolving the loaded config, active dictionaries…
Data Catalog Create and enrich durable data catalogs using the native DS_CATALOG_V1 Markdown contract, declare…
Data Science Engineering Foundation State, resume, reconstruction, job-lifecycle, transition, and flow-state mechanics for the Data S…
Dataops DataOps and DS/MLOps testing reference for data tiering, Bronze-to-Silver validation placement, p…
Demo Setup Repeatable HVE Core demo setup that simulates DT Coach sessions with a customer persona and scaff…
Demo Video Assemble ordered frames or clips with narration and optional synchronized scene transitions into…
Documentation Canonical documentation capability for audit, drift, validate, and author modes in hve-core.
Dt Coaching Foundation Design Thinking coaching foundation knowledge: coach identity and philosophy, quality and fidelit…
Dt Curriculum Design Thinking learning curriculum covering nine progressive modules across the full Problem, So…
Dt Figma Export Export Design Thinking artifacts to a FigJam board or Figma Design file through the Figma MCP ser…
Dt Methods Design Thinking method coaching knowledge across all nine methods including per-method techniques…
Dt Rpi Integration Design Thinking handoff knowledge for research-ready rpi-research inputs and DT-aware rpi-plan, r…
Engagement Report Council Critique Run one independent Council critique against engagement-report research evidence.
Engagement Reporting Creates source-grounded internal or external weekly engagement status reports with optional Outlo…
Evaluation Design Design evaluation datasets and supporting documentation for AI systems and agents, covering the s…
Experiment Design Experiment design reference for problem-class framing, Minimum Viable Experiment coaching, hypoth…
Feasibility Author and validate durable data and ML feasibility studies using the Feasibility Study Interchan…
Functional Planner Read-only PRD-to-work-item hierarchy planning.
Gh Code Scanning Retrieves and groups GitHub code scanning alerts by rule and severity using the gh CLI
Git Commit Stage user-selected paths, confirm the exact staged set, and create one local Conventional Commit…
Git Merge Coordinate Git merge, rebase, and rebase --onto workflows with conflict resolution, optional revi…
Git Setup Audit Git configuration with one read-only baseline command, then propose confirmed, non-destruct…
Gitlab Manage GitLab merge requests and pipelines with a Python CLI
Hve Artifact Authoring Create and validate HVE Core agents, prompts, instructions, and skills with current frontmatter,…
Hve Builder Create, improve, refactor, replace, review, or validate prompts, instructions, agents, subagents,…
Hve Core Installer Decision-driven HVE-Core installer with multiple clone-based and extension install methods, envir…
Hve Demo Material Create levelled demo decks and narrated MP4s for any repository topic, with HVE Core as the defau…
Hve Slides Create, update or review presentation-first HTML slide decks about HVE Core under slides/.
Incident Response Run a structured Azure incident response workflow for triage, diagnosis, mitigation, and root cau…
Jira Jira issue workflows for search, issue updates, transitions, comments, field discovery, and inter…
Mcsb Microsoft Cloud Security Benchmark (MCSB v2) control-domain taxonomy and NIST 800-53 / CIS Contro…
Ml Experimentation Machine learning experimentation reference for model-experimentation conventions, experiment trac…
Aspire Skills
8 skills · 93 stars · MIT
Aspire **WORKFLOW SKILL** - Aspire router.
Aspire Deployment **WORKFLOW SKILL** — Deploy Aspire apps from AppHost models to Docker Compose, Kubernetes, Azure,…
Aspire Init **WORKFLOW SKILL** - First-run flow for adding Aspire to a repo.
Aspire Monitoring **ANALYSIS SKILL** - Observe Aspire apps: logs, traces, metrics, resource state, telemetry export…
Aspire Orchestration **WORKFLOW SKILL** — Manage Aspire lifecycle in VS Code or the CLI.
Aspire Project V2 Migration **WORKFLOW SKILL** - Safely migrates eligible Aspire 13.6+ AppHosts from legacy ProjectResource A…
Aspireify **WORKFLOW SKILL** - Wire Aspire AppHosts or repair TypeScript AppHost toolchains.
Pr Review **AUTHOR SKILL (internal to microsoft/aspire-skills).** Reviews pull requests *into this repo* fo…
Other skills
2 skills
Chat Mode Authoring Author Copilot chat modes and instructions
Make Azure workloads highly available and resilient to failure Design Azure apps that survive zone outages, regional failures and traffic spikes.