Repository
microsoft/win-dev-skills agent skills
- skills
- 11
- official
- 11
- GitHub stars
- 462
GitHub description: “Agent plugins for building Windows apps with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and more.”
- Stars
- 462 (34 forks)
- Licence
- MIT
- Last push
- Oct 2026
- Created
- Mar 2026
- agent
- agent-skills
- copilot
- copilot-cli
- ghcp
- skills
- winappsdk
- winui3
- winui3-app
- xaml
Install all skills
npx skills add microsoft/win-dev-skillsAdd --skill <name> for a single skill and -a <agent> to choose the agent (see the agent guides).
Skills in microsoft/win-dev-skills, ranked
Ranked by score. Sort bymost stars,trending,newest,recently updated
| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Use with every WinDbg plugin investigation to apply evidence-first reasoning, confidence calibration, contrarian review, structured reporting, and deterministic validation. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 2 | A skill your agent uses when a kernel dump reports a Windows bugcheck; decode parameters and recover exception or trap context before investigating your driver. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 3 | A skill your agent uses when kernel evidence shows stalled I/O, a power IRP, or completion/cancellation misuse; inspect request state and driver ownership. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 4 | A skill your agent uses when kernel threads block on driver synchronization or Verifier reports a lock-order violation; build an owner/waiter graph. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 5 | A skill your agent uses when a kernel dump contains Driver Verifier violations; inspect flags, bugcheck subcodes, and available I/O shadow state. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 6 | A skill your agent uses when a native C/C++ app, service, or user-mode driver host (including UMDF) crashes with a structured exception in a dump or WinDbg session, including native faults inside… | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 7 | A skill your agent uses when an app, service, or user-mode driver host heap fails or Application Verifier detects corruption; inspect history and bounds. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 8 | A skill your agent uses when app, service, or user-mode driver C++ coroutine code holds a thread-affine lock across suspension and later hangs or fails. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 9 | A skill your agent uses when an app, service, or user-mode driver host TTD recording is available and earlier calls, writes, or lifetimes matter. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 10 | A skill your agent uses when a native app, service, or user-mode driver host allocation fails; distinguish VA exhaustion, fragmentation, and commit pressure. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 11 | A skill your agent uses when an app, service, or user-mode driver host is unresponsive on locks, COM/RPC, I/O, or another process; follow the blocker chain. | microsoft/ | 462 | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
Questions, answered from the data.
What is the best skill in microsoft/win-dev-skills?
Windbg Diagnostic Method (official) from microsoft/win-dev-skills ranks first of the 11 skills in microsoft/win-dev-skills listed here, with the highest score: its repository has 462 GitHub stars, its SKILL.md loads about 1.9k tokens and it passes the automated safety check with no findings. Next come Windbg Kernel Bugcheck Triage and Windbg Kernel Irp Lifecycle Triage.
Are the skills in microsoft/win-dev-skills official?
11 of the 11 skills in microsoft/win-dev-skills are official, published by the vendor's own GitHub organization: Windbg Diagnostic Method, Windbg Kernel Bugcheck Triage, Windbg Kernel Irp Lifecycle Triage, Windbg Kernel Lock Deadlock Triage, Windbg Kernel Verifier Triage and 6 more.
How do I install all skills from microsoft/win-dev-skills?
Run npx skills add microsoft/win-dev-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.