Is Skills safe to use?

Skills has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.

How do I install Skills?

Skills supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What AI clients work with Skills?

Skills is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is Skills actively maintained?

Skills is actively maintained — last commit was 10 days ago. It has 2,338 GitHub stars.

Skills

Name: Skills
Author: microsoft

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skills · by microsoft

Skills, MCP servers, Custom Agents, Agents.md for SDKs to ground Coding Agents

2.3k 952.1k/wk 0 tools GitHub npm

No known CVEs

MIT license

Actively maintained

Last commit 10d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

0 tools

Grade F

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skills": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skills"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Skills does

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!

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Skills safe to use?: Skills has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Skills?: Skills supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Skills?: Skills is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Skills actively maintained?: Skills is actively maintained — last commit was 10 days ago. It has 2,338 GitHub stars.

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Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "skills": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "skills"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What Skills does

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!

Test This Server

This server supports HTTP transport. Be the first to test it — help the community know if it works.

README

Agent Skills

[!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 174 skills with 1-click install

Quick Start

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.

Alternative installation methods

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.

What's Inside

Resource	Description
174 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

Skill Catalog

174 skills across language plugins — see skill catalog below for the full breakdown

Language	Count	Suffix
Core	10	—
Foundry (Language-Agnostic)	11	—
Python	39	`-py`
.NET	28	`-dotnet`
TypeScript

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Why this score

Five weighted categories — click any category to see the underlying evidence.

Score breakdown

67/100across 5 weighted dimensions

How we score →

0255075100

−33

Security

Maintenance

Efficiency

Documentation

Compatibility

Categoriesclick a row to see evidence

Security

OSV.dev

No known CVEs.

Checked skills against OSV.dev.

Community

Reviews

Be the first to review

Have you used this server?

Share your experience — it helps other developers decide.

How easy was setup?Did it work reliably?How was the documentation?

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Skills safe to use?: Skills has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under MIT.
How do I install Skills?: Skills supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with Skills?: Skills is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is Skills actively maintained?: Skills is actively maintained — last commit was 10 days ago. It has 2,338 GitHub stars.