Microsoft publishes official AI agent skills for its tools, services, and developer workflows. Microsoft builds developer platforms, cloud services, productivity software, and AI tools.
Browse 1,403 official AI agent skills across 59 Microsoft repositories, with install commands and source links.
Install
Install a full repository package, then let your agent activate the right skill for the task.
Fetch this Markdown manifest as plain text: https://skillscout.sh/official/microsoft/microsoft_skills_skillscout.md. If your browser cannot display the Markdown directly, use curl or another text fetcher. Recommend the relevant Microsoft skills package or packages for my goal, explain which individual skills matter, and wait for my approval. After I approve, install with the npx command. If no project is open, install it as an agent skill I can use later.
Skills packages
Includes 79 official skills: microsoft-foundry, azure-diagnostics, prepare, azure-ai, deploy, azure-validate.
npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills -y
Includes 1 official skill: playwright-cli.
npx skills add microsoft/playwright-cli -y
Includes 60 official skills: accessibility, azure-pipelines, memory-leak-audit, sessions, author-contributions, update-screenshots.
npx skills add microsoft/vscode -y
Includes 111 official skills: add-sharepoint, add-dataverse, create-code-app, add-office365, configure-canvas-mcp, add-excel.
npx skills add microsoft/power-platform-skills -y
Includes 55 official skills: powerbi-report-authoring, powerbi-report-design, powerbi-report-planning, semantic-model-authoring, powerbi-report-management, e2e-medallion-architecture.
npx skills add microsoft/skills-for-fabric -y
Includes 3 official skills: playwright-cli, playwright-trace, playwright-component-testing.
npx skills add microsoft/playwright -y
Includes 78 official skills: powerpoint, owasp-top-10, owasp-docker, owasp-cicd, owasp-infrastructure, secure-by-design.
npx skills add microsoft/hve-core -y
Includes 13 official skills: aspire, aspire-orchestration, aspire-monitoring, aspireify, aspire-deployment, aspire-init.
npx skills add microsoft/aspire-skills -y
Includes 9 official skills: winui-design, winui-dev-workflow, winui-code-review, winui-ui-testing, winui-setup, winui-packaging.
npx skills add microsoft/win-dev-skills -y
Covers frontend-design-review, cloud-solution-architect, microsoft-docs, skill-creator, mcp-builder, continual-learning. Reviews UI implementations against three quality pillars (Frictionless, Quality Craft, Trustworthy) and design system specs, or builds production-grade frontend interfaces from scratch with a defined aesthetic direction. Turns the agent into a Cloud Solution Architect trained on Azure Architecture Center guidance.
npx skills add microsoft/skills -y
Includes 9 official skills: dv-connect, dv-metadata, dv-solution, dv-overview, dv-query, dv-data.
npx skills add microsoft/dataverse-skills -y
Includes 8 official skills: pipelines-build-summary, boards-work-item-summary, boards-my-work, work-iterations, security-alert-review, boards-backlog-summary.
npx skills add microsoft/azure-devops-skills -y
Includes 6 official skills: eval-faq, eval-result-interpreter, eval-triage-and-improvement, eval-generator, eval-suite-planner, eval-guide.
npx skills add microsoft/eval-guide -y
Includes 35 official skills: python-code-quality, python-development, build-and-test, python-package-management, python-testing, project-structure.
npx skills add microsoft/agent-framework -y
Includes 2 official skills: fabric-cli-powerbi, fabric-cli-core.
npx skills add microsoft/fabric-cli -y
Includes 19 official skills: workiq, daily-outlook-triage, org-chart, action-item-extractor, multi-plan-search, channel-digest.
npx skills add microsoft/work-iq -y
Includes 31 official skills: int-project-context, int-reference, int-patterns, add-action, add-adaptive-card, add-generative-answers.
npx skills add microsoft/skills-for-copilot-studio -y
Includes 57 official skills: apm-strategy, apm-triage-panel, cli-logging-ux, apm-review-panel, python-architecture, auth.
npx skills add microsoft/apm -y
Includes 1 official skill: webwright.
npx skills add microsoft/webwright -y
Includes 5 official skills: skillopt-sleep, openclaw, skillopt-sleep, skillopt-sleep, skillopt-sleep.
npx skills add microsoft/skillopt -y
Includes 12 official skills: release-note-generation, winmd-api-search, wpf-to-winui3-migration, powertoys-verification, publish-extension, add-adaptive-card-form.
npx skills add microsoft/powertoys -y
Includes 41 official skills: skillify, image-vision, instance-storage-patterns, config-state-patterns, file-ipc-patterns, monitor.
npx skills add microsoft/amplifier-bundle-skills -y
Includes 6 official skills: agent-customization, get-search-view-results, install-vscode-extension, project-setup-info-local, project-setup-info-context7, troubleshoot.
npx skills add microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat -y
Includes 12 official skills: winapp-frameworks, winapp-setup, winapp-ui-automation, pr-review, winapp-identity, winapp-package.
npx skills add microsoft/winappcli -y
Includes 2 official skills: microsoft-docs, jupyter-notebook.
npx skills add microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners -y
Includes 10 official skills: release-note-writer, content-redirect, docs-product-alignment, frontmatter-description, blog-writer, doc-writer.
npx skills add microsoft/vscode-docs -y
Includes 20 official skills: aspire, aspireify, api-review, create-pr, fix-flaky-test, backport-pr.
npx skills add microsoft/aspire -y
Includes 33 official skills: waza, waza-runner, code-explainer, waza-interactive, azd-publish, .squad.
npx skills add microsoft/waza -y
Includes 1 official skill: teams-dev.
npx skills add microsoft/teams-sdk -y
Includes 1 official skill: verify-v8-v9-migration-docs.
npx skills add microsoft/fluentui -y
Includes 14 official skills: ort-build, ort-test, cuda-attention-kernel-patterns, ort-lint, python-kwargs-setattr-security, contrib-op-shape-inference-memory-safety.
npx skills add microsoft/onnxruntime -y
Includes 7 official skills: pytest, flask, jinja2, requests, numpy, django.
npx skills add microsoft/debugpy -y
Includes 20 official skills: brainstorming, building-ui-ux, creating-debug-tests-and-iterating, creating-skills, ff-oce-dashboard, ff-oce-kusto.
npx skills add microsoft/fluidframework -y
Includes 6 official skills: cosmosdb-best-practices, accessibility-aria-expert, backport, telemetry-best-practices, cosmosdb-nosql-query-editor, cosmosdb-nosql-query-generation.
npx skills add microsoft/vscode-cosmosdb -y
Includes 2 official skills: agentic-workflows, post-release-activities.
npx skills add microsoft/testfx -y
Includes 12 official skills: planning-with-files, rest-api-patterns, github-repo-explore, run-tests, add-function, build-docs.
npx skills add microsoft/semantic-link-labs -y
Includes 1 official skill: rushstack-best-practices.
npx skills add microsoft/rushstack -y
Includes 4 official skills: report, core, data-loading, data_loading.
npx skills add microsoft/data-formulator -y
Includes 1 official skill: caira.
npx skills add microsoft/caira -y
Includes 1 official skill: foundry-ai-solution-templates-creation.
npx skills add microsoft/foundry-ai-solution-templates-creation -y
Includes 1 official skill: entra-poc-advisor.
npx skills add microsoft/entra-pocadvisor -y
Includes 5 official skills: msresearch-aurora, msresearch-bioemu, msresearch-promptions, msresearch-dayhoff, msresearch-mattergen.
npx skills add microsoft/vibe-kit -y
Includes 8 official skills: documentation, fast-feature-request, fast-bug-report, fast-pull-request, rust, shipping.
npx skills add microsoft/fast -y
Includes 7 official skills: write-changelog, address-pr-comments, create-pull-request, form-github-search-query, show-github-search-result, suggest-fix-issue.
npx skills add microsoft/vscode-pull-request-github -y
Includes 2 official skills: review-pr, review-staged.
npx skills add microsoft/agent365-devtools -y
Includes 1 official skill: microsoft-build.
npx skills add microsoft/build-cli -y
Includes 5 official skills: code-review, synapseml-local-setup, scala-code, synapseml-branches, synapseml-pr-loop.
npx skills add microsoft/synapseml -y
Includes 5 official skills: analyze-ci-failures, evaluate-new-port, review-vcpkg-pr, review-vcpkg-prs-today, fetch-vcpkg-ci-logs.
npx skills add microsoft/vcpkg -y
Includes 4 official skills: data-discovery, data-fetching, fabric-cli, fabric-sdk.
npx skills add microsoft/fabric-apps-analytic-templates -y
Includes 1 official skill: agt-policy-authoring.
npx skills add microsoft/agent-governance-toolkit -y
Includes 1 official skill: playwright-roll.
npx skills add microsoft/playwright-python -y
Includes 1 official skill: building-accessible-ui.
npx skills add microsoft/a11y-llm-eval -y
Includes 113 official skills: dotnet-version-upgrade, aspire-integration, aspire-version-upgrade, azure-functions-upgrade, azure-migrate, building-projects.
npx skills add microsoft/upgrade-agent-plugins -y
Includes 2 official skills: java-lsp-tools, uitest.
npx skills add microsoft/vscode-java-dependency -y
Includes 51 official skills: airunway-aks-setup, analyze-comparison-tests, analyze-skill-issues, analyze-test-run, appinsights-instrumentation, azure-ai.
npx skills add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure -y
Includes 6 official skills: shadow-frog, shadow-frog-dream, shadow-frog-init, shadow-frog-meditate, shadow-frog-update, shadow-frog-viewer.
npx skills add microsoft/shadowfrog -y
Includes 5 official skills: assign-issue, find-duplicates, issuelens-config, label-issue, notify.
npx skills add microsoft/issuelens -y
Includes 1 official skill: use-winml-cli.
npx skills add microsoft/winml-cli -y
Individual skills
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Repository documentation
Includes 79 official skills: microsoft-foundry, azure-diagnostics, prepare, azure-ai, deploy, azure-validate.
Install the full package:
npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills -yInstall a specific skill:
npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills@microsoft-foundry -yUse the package when you want your agent to choose the relevant skill from this official Microsoft repository.
View microsoft/azure-skills on GitHub