Repository
microsoft/waza agent skills
- skills
- 16
- official
- 16
- GitHub stars
- 1.4k
GitHub description: “CLI / Framework for Agent Skills - create, test, measure and improve skill quality and effectiveness”
- Stars
- 1,400 (92 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Feb 2026
- Homepage
- microsoft.github.io/waza
Install all skills
npx skills add microsoft/wazaAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in microsoft/waza, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shows a categorized, interactive menu of common Squad operations, such as install, upgrade and team management, and collects arguments before running anything. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 1 repo | ~2.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 2 | Shared collaboration rules for a team of squad agents covering worktree awareness, writing decisions to an inbox, cross-agent requests and reviewer lockout. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 4 repos | ~500 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 3 | Walks through releasing a new version of the waza azd extension: changelog from commits, semver bump with your confirmation, and a release PR. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 4 | Dev-first branching model for the Squad project: feature work branches from dev, issue branches follow a naming rule and parallel issues use git worktrees. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 4 repos | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 5 | Evaluates agent skills with a Go CLI that runs YAML-defined benchmarks, compares runs and scores the quality of SKILL.md frontmatter. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 6 | Reviewer rejection workflow and strict lockout semantics. An agent skill from microsoft/waza. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 4 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 7 | Walks you through creating, running and reading waza evals for an agent skill, then proposes concrete fixes when tasks fail or the score is low. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 8 | Never read .env files or write secrets to .squad/ committed files | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 4 repos | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | yesterday |
| 9 | Find and resume interrupted Copilot CLI sessions using sessionstore queries | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 4 repos | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 10 | **PROFILE TEST** - A skill for testing the profile command. USE FOR: testing profile analysis, verifying structural metrics. DO NOT USE FOR… | microsoft/ | 1.4k | — | ~307 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 11 | Core conventions and patterns used in the Squad codebase. An agent skill from microsoft/waza. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 4 repos | ~851 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 12 | Update tests when changing APIs — no exceptions. An agent skill from microsoft/waza. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 3 repos | ~479 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 13 | Standard recovery patterns for all squad agents. An agent skill from microsoft/waza. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | 2 repos | ~857 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 14 | Breaks down a shared code snippet into a plain-English overview, a step-by-step walkthrough and the key programming concepts it uses, with optional improvement suggestions. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | — | ~612 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 15 | WORKFLOW SKILL - Process PDF files including text extraction, rotation, and merging. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | — | ~278 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 16 | Process PDF files including text extraction, rotation, and merging. | microsoft/ | 1.4k | — | ~174 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in microsoft/waza?
Squad Commands Menu (official) from microsoft/waza ranks first of the 16 skills in microsoft/waza listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 1.4k GitHub stars, 1 other GitHub owner carry a copy, its SKILL.md loads about 2.7k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Squad Agent Collaboration Patterns and waza azd Extension Publisher.
Are the skills in microsoft/waza official?
16 of the 16 skills in microsoft/waza are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Squad Commands Menu, Squad Agent Collaboration Patterns, waza azd Extension Publisher, Squad Git Branching Workflow, Waza Skill Evaluator and 11 more.
How do I install all skills from microsoft/waza?
Run npx skills add microsoft/waza 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.