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MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/Ontology-Playground/.github/skills/ontology-catalog-import/SKILL.md
Import customer or external RDF/OWL into this repo's catalogue format. Use when user drops an RDF/OWL file and wants it catalogue-ready (metadata, category, validation, compile).
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/Ontology-Playground/.github/skills/ontology-school-path-generator/SKILL.md
Generate Ontology School course paths/labs with progressive step ontologies from source ontology material. Use when user asks to tutorialize an ontology into school lessons and per-step builds.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/Ontology-Playground/.github/skills/theme-authoring/SKILL.md
Add a new color theme to the Ontology Playground. Use when someone wants to create, author, or plug in a theme, palette, color scheme, dark mode, or light mode, or add an entry to the theme picker. Covers the appStore registration plus the CSS token block.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ResearchStudio/ResearchStudio-Idea/evaluation/idea_quality/SKILL.md
Score the QUALITY of a research idea at the idea stage — given a Markdown file with Title / Motivation / Method sections (no experiments needed), produce a per-axis quality assessment with cited evidence and an overall 0–100 score plus a verdict; or, given two such idea files, a blind head-to-head comparison. TRIGGER when the user asks "how good is this idea", "rate / score / grade this research idea or proposal", "review my idea .md before I write it up", "is this contribution strong enough to pursue", "which of these two idea files is stronger", or hands over an idea Markdown file (Title/Motivation/Method) and wants a quality judgment. Use this even when the user does not say the word "score" but clearly wants an assessment of how strong an idea is. DO NOT trigger for prior-art / overlap / "is this novel vs existing work" checks (that is a literature-collision task), for full reviews of finished papers that already have results, or for generating the idea itself.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ResearchStudio/ResearchStudio-Idea/skills/idea_spark/SKILL.md
Generate ONE reviewer-defensible, implementable research idea with a concrete method and falsification plan from a stated research direction. Use when the user asks for a research idea, novelty analysis, bottleneck diagnosis, or paper-shape suggestion. Skip code review, debugging, and unconstrained brainstorming without research context.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ResearchStudio/ResearchStudio-Idea/skills/paper_search/SKILL.md
Search papers across arXiv, DBLP, OpenAlex, OpenReview, Semantic Scholar, and Crossref for a given query and year range, using ./scripts/search_papers.py. Use when the user asks to find papers, related work, prior art, or recent publications on a specific topic, especially when they mention a date range or specific venues like NeurIPS, ICLR, or ICML.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ResearchStudio/ResearchStudio-Idea/skills/scoop_check/SKILL.md
Check whether a proposed research novelty (given a problem statement and claimed idea/novelty) overlaps with existing published work. TRIGGER when the user asks to verify research novelty, check if an idea is new, compare a proposed contribution to prior art, do a literature/prior-art search for a specific claim, or assess whether a paper idea has been scooped. DO NOT TRIGGER for general literature reviews unrelated to a specific novelty claim, or for writing related-work sections of an already-validated idea.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ResearchStudio/ResearchStudio-Reel/skills/paper2assets/SKILL.md
Extract a research paper PDF into a structured set of poster-agnostic assets reusable by any downstream renderer (paper2poster, paper2blog, paper2audio, paper2video). Produces a `<outdir>/` containing the paper's full text (assets/meta/text.txt), per-figure captions (assets/meta/captions.json), cleaned figure rasters (assets/figures/*.png + assets/meta/figures.json manifest), paper metadata (assets/meta/metadata.json: title / authors / institutes / venue / paper_url / code_url), institute logos (assets/logos/*), URL QR codes (assets/qr/*), and a 9-section structured paper summary (assets/meta/paper_spec.md). The bundle follows the Output Contract layout (deliverables at top, everything else under `assets/`). Use when the user wants to extract paper content into reusable assets, OR as the mandatory upstream stage of any paper-rendering pipeline — e.g., "extract this paper", "build paper assets", "get the figures and spec from this PDF", "paper2assets".
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ResearchStudio/ResearchStudio-Reel/skills/paper2blog/SKILL.md
Use when transforming an academic paper, arXiv/OpenReview PDF, conference paper, technical report, poster, slide deck, repository README, or related research materials into a bilingual editorial package for an editing team. Produces two articles by default — a Chinese WeChat public-account version (`blog_zh.docx`) and an English research-blog version (`blog_en.docx`). Use for drafting, revising, or packaging article copy, figure placement, captions, image prompts, and the final `.docx` deliverables.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ResearchStudio/ResearchStudio-Reel/skills/paper2reel/SKILL.md
Build an interactive HTML viewer that aligns paper2poster output with slide/video deck frames through a sidecar content_alignment.json, without modifying the original poster, PPTX, or blog deliverables.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ResearchStudio/ResearchStudio-Reel/skills/paper2video/SKILL.md
Turn a research paper, a paper2assets package, or an existing PPT deck into a narrated MP4 video by fully delegating slide authoring to the installed ppt-master skill and fully delegating rendering, subtitles, timeline assembly, and strict media QA to the installed pptx2video skill and its public CLI. Resolves one explicit animation-trigger decision (on-click or after-previous) and hands it to both child skills so the delivered PPTX and the delivered MP4 never disagree, then audits the final PPTX's native p:timing tree to prove the handoff held. Use when the user wants a paper turned into a video, wants /paper2video, or wants a narrated MP4 plus editable PPTX from a paper2assets bundle.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/DirectXTK/.github/skills/release/SKILL.md
Guide for performing the DirectX Tool Kit for DirectX 11 release process. Use this skill when asked to help with releasing a new version, publishing packages, or updating ports.
Often used withcreate-agent-adapterdocumentation-consistency
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/DirectXTK/skills/directxtk-tutorial/SKILL.md
Walk through the DirectX Tool Kit for DirectX 11 Getting Started tutorial step by step. Use this skill when asked to follow the tutorial, set up a new DirectX 11 project, or learn how to use DirectX Tool Kit from scratch.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/DirectXTK/skills/directxtk-usage/SKILL.md
Guide for integrating DirectX Tool Kit for DirectX 11 into new projects and understanding the API surface. Use this skill when asked about how to use DirectX Tool Kit, integrate it into a project, or get an overview of its classes and functionality.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/pg_durable/.agents/skills/pg-durable-sql/SKILL.md
Generate correct pg_durable SQL code for durable function workflows. USE WHEN: writing pg_durable DSL, creating durable functions, using df.start(), composing ~> |=> & | ?> !> @> operators, building ETL pipelines, loops, parallel joins, race conditions, conditional branching, HTTP requests, signals, cron scheduling, or variable substitution in pg_durable. DO NOT USE FOR: general PostgreSQL queries unrelated to pg_durable, Rust extension development, or duroxide internals.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-pull-request-github/.github/skills/write-changelog/SKILL.md
Write a CHANGELOG.md entry for a new extension release. Use when: writing changelog, updating changelog, adding release notes, preparing a release, documenting milestone changes. Requires a milestone name and extension version number.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-pull-request-github/src/lm/skills/address-pr-comments/SKILL.md
Address review comments (including Copilot comments) on the active pull request. Use when: responding to PR feedback, fixing review comments, resolving PR threads, implementing requested changes from reviewers, addressing code review, fixing PR issues.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-pull-request-github/src/lm/skills/create-pull-request/SKILL.md
Create a GitHub Pull Request from the current or specified branch. Use when: opening a PR, submitting code for review, creating a draft PR, publishing a branch as a pull request, proposing changes to a repository.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-pull-request-github/src/lm/skills/form-github-search-query/SKILL.md
Forms a GitHub search query based on a natural language query and the type of search (issue or PR). This skill helps users create effective search queries to find relevant issues or pull requests on GitHub.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vscode-pull-request-github/src/lm/skills/show-github-search-result/SKILL.md
Summarizes the results of a GitHub search query in a human friendly markdown table that is easy to read and understand. ALWAYS use this skill when displaying the results of a GitHub search query.
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