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MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-docs/.github/skills/docs-product-alignment/SKILL.md
Audit and update docs/copilot/ documentation to accurately reflect current VS Code AI capabilities. Use when: competitive analysis reveals gaps, product launches new features, docs use outdated framing, or keyword coverage needs strengthening for discoverability by users and AI agents. Produces a gap analysis plus targeted edits across affected files.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-docs/.github/skills/doc-writer/SKILL.md
Plan and write VS Code documentation for a new or updated feature. ALWAYS use this skill when the user asks to "document", "add docs for", "write docs for", or "update the docs for" a feature, or provides a GitHub issue/PR link to document — even if the change seems small. Proposes a documentation plan and asks clarifying questions first — it does not edit any files until you approve the plan.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-docs/.github/skills/frontmatter-description/SKILL.md
Check and optimize MetaDescription frontmatter fields in VS Code documentation. Use when auditing, adding, or improving page descriptions for SEO and discoverability. Apply this when making content changes to markdown articles.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-docs/.github/skills/pr-review/SKILL.md
Verify the technical accuracy of a vscode-docs pull request against the VS Code source code in microsoft/vscode and microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat. Use when reviewing a docs PR for factual correctness — setting names, command IDs, default values, API shapes, keybindings, versioned availability, and described behavior.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-docs/.github/skills/release-note-writer/SKILL.md
Guidelines for writing and reviewing Insiders and Stable release notes for Visual Studio Code. This also includes instructions for updating release notes for recovery releases.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-docs/.github/skills/review-agent-corrections/SKILL.md
Review locally captured corrections to agent edits and propose reusable repository guidance. Use when asked to review agent corrections, learn from feedback, inspect pending correction events, or improve future agent edits from prior feedback.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-docs/.github/skills/write-my-release-notes/SKILL.md
Generate VS Code release notes for the features you worked on in a milestone. ALWAYS use this skill when the user asks to "write release notes for my features", "document my milestone features", or "generate release notes from my issues". It gathers the milestone features you own from GitHub, analyzes each feature and its related issues, and writes user-focused feature sections into the milestone release notes file.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/rushstack/skills/rushstack-best-practices/SKILL.md
Provides best practices and guidance for working with Rush monorepos. Use when the user is working in a Rush-based repository, asks about Rush commands (install, update, build, rebuild), needs help with project selection, dependency management, build caching, subspace configuration, or troubleshooting Rush-specific issues.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-governance-toolkit/docs/skills/agt-policy-authoring/SKILL.md
Create and validate a minimal AGT Copilot CLI policy tailored to the repository being inspected.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/api-review/SKILL.md
Reviews .NET API surface area PRs for design guideline violations. Analyzes api/*.cs file diffs, applies review rules from .NET Framework Design Guidelines and Aspire conventions, and attributes findings to the developer who introduced each API (via git blame). Use this when asked to review API surface area changes.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/azdo-internal/SKILL.md
Expert knowledge for triggering, monitoring, and validating changes to the Aspire internal Azure DevOps pipeline (microsoft-aspire, definition 1602) on dnceng/internal. Use when asked to trigger an internal/AzDO build, check pipeline/build status, push to the internal mirror, or validate eng/ pipeline (eng/pipelines/azure-pipelines.yml / release pipeline) changes for the microsoft/aspire repository.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/backport-pr/SKILL.md
Backports a merged PR to a release branch by triggering the /backport bot, waiting for the bot-created PR, and filling in the shiproom template (Customer Impact, Testing, Risk, Regression?). Use when asked to: backport a PR, port a fix to a release branch, fill in a backport template, prepare a backport for shiproom review.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/ci-test-failures/SKILL.md
Guide for diagnosing GitHub Actions test failures, extracting failed tests from runs, and creating or updating failing-test issues. Use this when asked to investigate GitHub Actions test failures, download failure logs, create failing-test issues, or debug CI issues.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/cli-channel-debugging/SKILL.md
Emulates any Aspire CLI build identity (channel, version, commit, package source) from a locally built CLI using ASPIRE_CLI_* environment variables and the install sidecar, so a reported bug can be reproduced and fixed locally without going through the install/PR loop. Use this when asked to reproduce channel/version/quality-specific CLI behavior, simulate a daily/staging/stable/PR build locally, or decide which override knobs to set for a given scenario.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/cli-e2e-testing/SKILL.md
Use when creating, modifying, debugging, or reviewing Aspire CLI end-to-end tests that use Hex1b terminal automation under tests/Aspire.Cli.EndToEnd.Tests/.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/code-review/SKILL.md
Review a GitHub pull request for problems. Use when asked to review a PR, do a code review, check a PR for issues, or review pull request changes. Focuses only on identifying problems — not style nits or praise.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/connection-properties/SKILL.md
Specialized agent for creating and improving Connection Properties in Aspire resource and README files
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/create-pr/SKILL.md
Create a pull request using the repository PR template. Use when asked to: create PR, open PR, push and create PR, submit PR, open pull request, send changes for review.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/dashboard-testing/SKILL.md
Guide for writing tests for the Aspire Dashboard. Use this when asked to create, modify, or debug dashboard unit tests or Blazor component tests.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/aspire/.agents/skills/dependency-update/SKILL.md
Guides dependency version updates by checking nuget.org for latest versions, triggering the dotnet-migrate-package Azure DevOps pipeline, and monitoring runs. Use this when asked to update external NuGet dependencies.
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