context-engineering

Agent Skills for Context Engineering

A Microsoft-native adaptation of the Agent Skills for Context Engineering collection.

The default context-engineering package now installs both the core context-engineering skills and the Azure AI / Microsoft Foundry implementation skills. This is not a separate extension layered on afterward. The standard distribution is intended to help agents move from mechanism-level context engineering to Microsoft-native architecture choices by default: Microsoft Foundry Agent Service and Hosted Agents, Foundry IQ, Foundry Toolbox, Azure AI Search, Fabric, Entra identity, Responsible AI guardrails, publishing, and Azure memory/state.

Install

For Claude Code, copy and run these two commands:

/plugin marketplace add FVossebeld/agent-skills-for-context-engineering
/plugin install context-engineering@context-engineering-marketplace

That installs the full standard package: 24 skills, including the Azure and Microsoft-native adaptation skills. There is no separate Azure install step.

For Open Plugins compatible tools, use this manifest URL:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FVossebeld/agent-skills-for-context-engineering/main/.plugin/plugin.json

For local use or inspection:

git clone https://github.com/FVossebeld/agent-skills-for-context-engineering.git

What this adaptation does

Context engineering is the discipline of curating everything that enters a model's context window: system prompts, tool definitions, retrieved documents, message history, tool outputs, memory, files, and operating-loop state. The core skills teach the transferable mechanisms. The Azure skills bind those mechanisms to Microsoft products, identity boundaries, deployment surfaces, governance controls, and operational caveats.

Default bias:

1. Prefer Microsoft Foundry Agent Service and Foundry Hosted Agents for managed agent runtimes.
2. Prefer Microsoft Agent Framework or Semantic Kernel for enterprise code-first orchestration.
3. Prefer Foundry Toolbox for curated tool catalogs once a system has more than a small non-overlapping tool set.
4. Prefer Foundry IQ, Azure AI Search, File Search, SharePoint grounding, Fabric Data Agent, Cosmos DB, Blob, and Redis over ad hoc retrieval or memory infrastructure.
5. Prefer Entra ID, managed identity, RBAC, on-behalf-of access, private networking, Azure Monitor, and Responsible AI controls before adding custom governance.

What gets installed

• 15 core context-engineering and harness-engineering skills under skills/
• 9 Microsoft-native implementation skills under azure/skills/
• The researcher operating system under researcher/ for deterministic gates, mechanism provenance, activation fixtures, and benchmark reporting

The default Claude marketplace manifest is:

.claude-plugin/marketplace.json

The default Open Plugins manifest is:

.plugin/plugin.json

The older Azure-only manifests remain available as subset install paths for environments that want only Microsoft-native binding skills, but they are no longer the primary distribution contract:

.plugin/plugin.azure.json
.claude-plugin/marketplace.azure.json

Skill map

Core context and harness skills