Skill collection
microsoft/skills agent skills
- skills
- 150
- official
- 150
- GitHub stars
- 3.1k
GitHub description: “Skills, MCP servers, Custom Agents, Agents.md for SDKs to ground Coding Agents”
- Stars
- 3,086 (351 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Jan 2026
- Homepage
- microsoft.github.io/skills
- agent-skills
- agents
- azure
- foundry
- mcp
- sdk
- skills
Install all skills
npx skills add microsoft/skillsAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in microsoft/skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Reference for building on Microsoft Foundry with the azure-ai-projects Python SDK: project clients, versioned agents, evaluations, connections, datasets and indexes. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 2 | Python guidance for the Azure AI Search SDK covering vector, hybrid and semantic search, index management and indexers, with Entra ID authentication preferred over keys. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~4.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 3 | Covers producer, consumer, and checkpoint-store setup for Azure Event Hubs streaming in Python, with Entra ID auth and partition targeting. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 1 repo | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 4 | Create Pydantic models following the multi-model pattern with Base, Create, Update, Response, and InDB variants. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~496 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 5 | Builds podcast-style audio narration from text with Azure OpenAI's GPT Realtime Mini over WebSocket, from a Python FastAPI backend to a React player. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 1 repo | ~947 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 6 | Build dark-themed React applications using Tailwind CSS with custom theming, glassmorphism effects, and Framer Motion animations. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 5 repos | ~3.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 7 | Guide for creating effective skills for AI coding agents working with Azure SDKs and Microsoft Foundry services. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 5 repos | ~17k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 8 | Reference for the Azure Service Bus Python SDK: queues, topics and subscriptions, sending and receiving messages, receive modes and DefaultAzureCredential authentication. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | — | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 9 | Captures and filters Windows user-mode and kernel debug output from the command line with the Sysinternals DebugView CLI, including bounded runs suited to agents. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | — | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 10 | Azure AI Agents Persistent SDK for Java. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 11 | Build anomaly detection applications with Azure AI Anomaly Detector SDK for Java. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 12 | Build content moderation applications with Azure AI Content Safety SDK for Java. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 13 | Azure AI Content Safety SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 14 | Azure AI Content Understanding SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 15 | Azure Machine Learning SDK v2 for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 16 | Azure AI Projects SDK for Java. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 17 | Build AI applications using Azure AI Projects SDK for JavaScript (@azure/ai-projects). | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 18 | Azure AI Text Analytics SDK for sentiment analysis, entity recognition, key phrases, language detection, PII, and healthcare NLP. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 19 | Azure AI Transcription SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 20 | Azure AI Document Translation SDK for batch translation of documents with format preservation. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 21 | Azure AI Text Translation SDK for real-time text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionary lookup. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 22 | Build image analysis applications with Azure AI Vision SDK for Java. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 23 | Azure AI Vision Image Analysis SDK for captions, tags, objects, OCR, people detection, and smart cropping. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 24 | Azure AI VoiceLive SDK for Java. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 25 | Build real-time voice AI applications using Azure AI Voice Live SDK (azure-ai-voicelive). | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 26 | Azure AI Voice Live SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~3.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 27 | Azure App Configuration SDK for Java. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 28 | Azure App Configuration SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 29 | Azure Communication Services common utilities for Java. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 30 | Send SMS messages with Azure Communication Services SMS Java SDK. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 31 | Azure Batch SDK for Java. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 32 | Azure Cosmos DB SDK for Java. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 33 | Azure Cosmos DB JavaScript/TypeScript SDK (@azure/cosmos) for data plane operations. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 34 | Build table storage applications with Azure Tables SDK for Java. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 35 | Build event-driven applications with Azure Event Grid SDK for Java. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 36 | Build event streaming applications using Azure Event Hubs SDK for JavaScript (@azure/event-hubs). | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 37 | Manage secrets using Azure Key Vault Secrets SDK for JavaScript (@azure/keyvault-secrets). | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 38 | Build real-time web applications with Azure Web PubSub SDK for Java. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 39 | Azure Web PubSub Service SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 40 | Azure API Center Management SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 41 | Azure Resource Manager SDK for API Management in .NET. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 42 | Azure API Management SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 43 | Azure Bot Service Management SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 44 | Azure Fabric Management SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 45 | Azure Monitor Ingestion SDK for Java. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 46 | Azure Monitor Ingestion SDK for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 47 | Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter for Java. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 48 | Azure Monitor OpenTelemetry Exporter for Python. An agent skill from microsoft/skills. | microsoft/ | 3.1k | 6 repos | ~2.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in microsoft/skills?
Azure AI Projects Python SDK (official) from microsoft/skills ranks first of the 150 skills in microsoft/skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 3.1k GitHub stars, 6 other GitHub owners carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2.8k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Azure AI Search Python SDK and Azure Event Hubs Python SDK Guide.
Are the skills in microsoft/skills official?
150 of the 150 skills in microsoft/skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Azure AI Projects Python SDK, Azure AI Search Python SDK, Azure Event Hubs Python SDK Guide, Pydantic Models Py, Azure Realtime Podcast Generation and 145 more.
How do I install all skills from microsoft/skills?
Run npx skills add microsoft/skills in your project: the open-source skills CLI installs the repository's skills into your coding agent's skills folder. To install a single skill, open its page here for the exact command.
How are these skills ranked?
By Skill Navigator score, which combines the GitHub stars of the skill's repository (shared across that repo's skills and discounted for large collections), how many other GitHub owners carry a copy of the skill, and automated SKILL.md quality checks, minus penalties for safety-check warnings and for each further skill from the same repository. Skills that fail the safety check are not listed.