MicrosoftSkillproject-conventions
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/project-conventions/SKILL.md
Core conventions and patterns for this codebase
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MicrosoftSkillMicrosoftSkillpr-review-response
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/pr-review-response/SKILL.md
Teaches agents to reply to PR review comment threads after fixing issues, making resolutions traceable
MicrosoftSkillpr-screenshots
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/pr-screenshots/SKILL.md
Capture Playwright screenshots and embed them in GitHub PR descriptions
MicrosoftSkillralph-two-pass-scan
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/ralph-two-pass-scan/SKILL.md
Cuts GitHub API calls by separating lightweight list scanning from full hydration
MicrosoftSkillrelease-process
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/release-process/SKILL.md
Pre-release validation, npm publish procedures, and post-publish verification
MicrosoftSkillreskill
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/reskill/SKILL.md
Team-wide charter and history optimization through skill extraction
MicrosoftSkillretro-enforcement
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/retro-enforcement/SKILL.md
Ensure retrospectives happen on schedule and that their action items are tracked in GitHub Issues — not markdown checklists. This skill addresses a specific, measured failure mode: 0% completion rate on markdown retro action items across 6 consecutive retrospectives. GitHub Issues have an 85%+ completion rate in the same squad. The format was the problem, not the people. The function checks .squad/log/ for any file matching retrospective dated within the last $WindowDays days (default: 7). If none is found, the…
MicrosoftSkillsquad-commands
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/squad-commands/SKILL.md
Categorized catalog of common Squad operations. Coordinator reads this file and presents it as an interactive menu when the user asks for available commands or help.
MicrosoftSkillversioning-policy
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/versioning-policy/SKILL.md
Semver versioning rules for Squad SDK and CLI — prevents prerelease version incidents
MicrosoftSkillwindows-compatibility
microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.squad/templates/skills/windows-compatibility/SKILL.md
Cross-platform path handling and command patterns
MicrosoftSkillcost-analysis
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-analysis/SKILL.md
Analyze actual Azure spend, bill changes, and AKS or AI costs. WHEN: \"Azure cost breakdown\", \"most expensive resources\", \"why did my bill increase\", \"cost spike\", \"unexpected charge\", \"Cosmos DB charges\", \"Foundry model costs\", \"AKS cluster cost\", \"namespace cost\", \"enable AKS cost analysis\", \"idle AKS capacity\". DO NOT USE FOR: forecasts, pricing estimates, rightsizing, commitments, or budgets.
MicrosoftSkillcost-estimation
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-estimation/SKILL.md
Forecast Azure spend and price planned resources or workloads. WHEN: \"forecast Azure spending\", \"project next month cost\", \"compare forecast to my planning target\", \"how much will Azure cost\", \"estimate VM cost\", \"compare storage tiers\", \"compare Azure regions\", \"retail price\", \"EA rate card\", \"negotiated pricesheet\". DO NOT USE FOR: configured budget health or alerts, bill analysis, cost spikes, rightsizing, or commitments.
MicrosoftSkillcost-governance
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-governance/SKILL.md
Govern Azure costs with budgets, alerts, tags, and policy restrictions. WHEN: \"Azure budget health\", \"configured budget overrun\", \"list Azure budgets\", \"create Azure budget\", \"budget alerts\", \"budget coverage\", \"missing CostCenter tags\", \"allowed VM SKUs\", \"allowed Azure regions\", \"would this SKU be denied\", \"cost guardrails\". DO NOT USE FOR: planning-target forecasts, bill investigations, pricing, rightsizing, or commitments.
MicrosoftSkillcost-optimization
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-cost/skills/cost-optimization/SKILL.md
Optimize existing Azure resources and analyze Reservations or Savings Plans. WHEN: \"optimize Azure costs\", \"reduce cloud spending\", \"rightsize resources\", \"find idle resources\", \"orphaned disk\", \"deleted VM still charged\", \"public IP still charging\", \"reservation utilization\", \"Savings Plan coverage\", \"commitment recommendation\", \"why is pay-as-you-go still charged\". DO NOT USE FOR: cost spikes, forecasts, pricing estimates, budgets, or governance.
MicrosoftSkillazure-kusto-graph
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-kusto-graph-skills/skills/azure-kusto-graph/SKILL.md
Build and query Kusto graphs from natural language. Covers transient graphs (make-graph), persistent graph models/snapshots, pattern matching (graph-match), shortest paths, connected components, and graph-to-table export. Generates the edges-first thinking: define edges, define node lookups, union, make-graph. WHEN: make-graph, graph-match, graph-shortest-paths, graph-to-table, graph-mark-components, persistent graph, graph model, graph snapshot, build a graph from data, find paths between nodes, pattern matching in graph, connected components, transient graph, Kusto graph, KQL graph.
MicrosoftSkillazure-kusto-irql-graph
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-kusto-graph-skills/skills/azure-kusto-irql-graph/SKILL.md
Apply IRQL graph functions to KQL or IRQL query results for Kusto Explorer visualization. Generates Lift_To_Graph mappings and composes Graph_Render_View, Graph_Fold_By_Property, Extract_Node_*, Enrich_Node_*, and Enrich_Graph_* calls. Accepts a supplied query or limited basic natural-language source request; it is not a general natural-language-to-KQL/IRQL skill. WHEN: Lift_To_Graph, Graph_Render_View, Graph_Fold_By_Property, IRQL graph enrichment, graph mapping for existing query results, icon-decorated graph, fold graph nodes. Use azure-kusto-graph for native make-graph analysis, graph-match, shortest paths, components, or persistent graphs.
MicrosoftSkillazure-kusto-irql
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-kusto-graph-skills/skills/azure-kusto-irql/SKILL.md
Compose IRQL (Incident Response Query Language) queries for Kusto cybersecurity investigations. Translates natural language hunting questions into composable IRQL pipelines using Get_*, Extract_*, and Enrich_* functions. WHEN: IRQL query, security hunt, threat hunting KQL, incident response query, compose hunting pipeline, failed logins, phishing investigation, lateral movement, process execution, file creation events.
MicrosoftSkillazure-local-multi-rack
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-local-skills/skills/azure-local-multi-rack/SKILL.md
Plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot multi-rack (rack scale) deployments of Azure Local — preintegrated racks scaling to hundreds of machines, built on Network Fabric Controller, Cluster Manager, SAN storage, and managed network fabric. Use for the Microsoft.NetworkCloud and Microsoft.ManagedNetworkFabric control plane. NOT for standard 1-16 node Azure Local, and NOT for rack-aware clusters (two racks as availability zones, up to 8 nodes, synchronous replication) — those are standard scale. WHEN: multi-rack, rack scale Azure Local, aggregation rack, compute rack, Network Fabric Controller, NFC, Cluster Manager, network fabric, isolation domain, az networkcloud, az networkfabric, multi-rack logical network, multi-rack Arc VM.
MicrosoftSkillazure-local
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-local-skills/skills/azure-local/SKILL.md
Plan, deploy, operate, and troubleshoot Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI): sizing and prerequisites, Arc registration, lifecycle updates, workloads (Azure Local VMs, AKS on Azure Local, images, disks, logical networks), SDN and network security, and failure triage — starting read-only and confirming before risky changes. WHEN: Azure Local, Azure Stack HCI, Arc resource bridge, custom location, Azure Local VM, Arc VM, AKS on Azure Local, AKS hybrid, SDN, Lifecycle Manager, Azure Local update, disconnected site.
MicrosoftSkillazure-ai-agents-persistent-dotnet
microsoft/skills/.github/plugins/azure-sdk-dotnet/skills/azure-ai-agents-persistent-dotnet/SKILL.md
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".
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