By microsoft
Build .NET applications that provision Azure infrastructure (databases, caches, bots), integrate AI services (agents, OpenAI, voice, document intelligence, search), manage events/messaging (Event Grid, Hubs, Service Bus), authenticate via Entra ID, and handle Key Vault cryptography using official SDKs and ARM clients.
Azure AI Agents Persistent SDK for .NET. Low-level SDK for creating and managing AI agents with threads, messages, runs, and tools. Use for agent CRUD, conversation threads, streaming responses, function calling, file search, and code interpreter. Triggers: "PersistentAgentsClient", "persistent agents", "agent threads", "agent runs", "streaming agents", "function calling agents .NET".
Azure AI Document Intelligence SDK for .NET. Extract text, tables, and structured data from documents using prebuilt and custom models. Use for invoice processing, receipt extraction, ID document analysis, and custom document models. Triggers: "Document Intelligence", "DocumentIntelligenceClient", "form recognizer", "invoice extraction", "receipt OCR", "document analysis .NET".
Azure OpenAI SDK for .NET. Client library for Azure OpenAI and OpenAI services. Use for chat completions, embeddings, image generation, audio transcription, and assistants. Triggers: "Azure OpenAI", "AzureOpenAIClient", "ChatClient", "chat completions .NET", "GPT-4", "embeddings", "DALL-E", "Whisper", "OpenAI .NET".
Azure AI Projects SDK for .NET. High-level client for Azure AI Foundry projects including agents, connections, datasets, deployments, evaluations, and indexes. Use for AI Foundry project management, versioned agents, and orchestration. Triggers: "AI Projects", "AIProjectClient", "Foundry project", "versioned agents", "evaluations", "datasets", "connections", "deployments .NET".
Azure AI Voice Live SDK for .NET. Build real-time voice AI applications with bidirectional WebSocket communication. Use for voice assistants, conversational AI, real-time speech-to-speech, and voice-enabled chatbots. Triggers: "voice live", "real-time voice", "VoiceLiveClient", "VoiceLiveSession", "voice assistant .NET", "bidirectional audio", "speech-to-speech".
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[!NOTE] Work in Progress — This repository is under active development. More skills are being added, existing skills are being updated to use the latest SDK patterns, and tests are being expanded to ensure quality. Contributions welcome!
Skills, custom agents, AGENTS.md templates, and MCP configurations for AI coding agents working with Azure SDKs and Microsoft AI Foundry.
Blog post: Context-Driven Development: Agent Skills for Microsoft Foundry and Azure
🔍 Skill Explorer: Browse all 132 skills with 1-click install
npx skills add microsoft/skills
Select the skills you need from the wizard. Skills are installed to your chosen agent's directory (e.g., .github/skills/ for GitHub Copilot) and symlinked if you use multiple agents.
Manual installation (git clone)
# Clone and copy specific skills
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/skills.git
cp -r agent-skills/.github/skills/azure-cosmos-db-py your-project/.github/skills/
# Or use symlinks for multi-project setups
ln -s /path/to/agent-skills/.github/skills/mcp-builder /path/to/your-project/.github/skills/mcp-builder
# Share skills across different agent configs in the same repo
ln -s ../.github/skills .opencode/skills
ln -s ../.github/skills .claude/skills
Coding agents like Copilot CLI and GitHub Copilot in VS Code are powerful, but they lack domain knowledge about your SDKs. The patterns are already in their weights from pretraining. All you need is the right activation context to surface them.
[!IMPORTANT] Use skills selectively. Loading all skills causes context rot: diluted attention, wasted tokens, conflated patterns. Only copy skills essential for your current project.

| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| 128 Skills | Domain-specific knowledge for Azure SDK and Foundry development |
| Plugins | Installable plugin packages (deep-wiki, azure-skills and more) |
| Custom Agents | Role-specific agents (backend, frontend, infrastructure, planner) |
| AGENTS.md | Template for configuring agent behavior in your projects |
| MCP Configs | Pre-configured servers for docs, GitHub, browser automation |
| Documentation | Repo docs and usage guides |
132 skills in
.github/skills/— flat structure with language suffixes for automatic discovery
| Language | Count | Suffix |
|---|---|---|
| Core | 9 | — |
| Python | 41 | -py |
| .NET | 28 | -dotnet |
| TypeScript | 25 | -ts |
| Java | 25 | -java |
| Rust | 7 | -rust |
9 skills — tooling, infrastructure, language-agnostic
npx claudepluginhub microsoft/skills --plugin azure-sdk-dotnetTurn your coding agent into a SOTA browser agent. Drives a local Playwright workspace via one bash command at a time, saving screenshots and an action log into final_runs/run_<id>/, and visually self-verifies the result.
AGT governance hooks and MCP tools for Claude Code sessions
Azure SDK patterns and best practices for Java developers covering AI, communication, storage, identity, monitoring, and management libraries.
Azure SDK patterns and best practices for Rust developers covering identity, Key Vault, storage, Cosmos DB, and Event Hubs.
Azure SDK patterns and best practices for Python developers covering AI, storage, identity, monitoring, messaging, and management libraries.
Azure SDK patterns and best practices for TypeScript/Node.js developers covering AI, storage, identity, monitoring, and messaging libraries.
Editorial "Azure AI & Cloud" bundle for Claude Code from Antigravity Awesome Skills.
Collection of agent skills
Aspire skills plugin for AI coding agents. Six skills: aspire (router), aspire-init (skeleton drop), aspireify (AppHost wiring), aspire-orchestration (lifecycle, guardrails), aspire-deployment (publish, deploy, destroy, pipeline steps), aspire-monitoring (logs, traces, dashboard, diagnostics bridge). Aligned with Aspire 13.4.
Skills for building agents with the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK for TypeScript/JavaScript
Comprehensive .NET development skills and agents for Claude Code - covering C#, F#, Akka.NET, Aspire, testing frameworks, and specialized tools