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MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vcpkg/.github/skills/evaluate-new-port/SKILL.md
Audit a vcpkg port locally. Reads the port metadata and build recipe, installs the port, inspects extracted sources and installed files, and produces a report covering license risks, vendored code, optional dependencies, and other port review suggestions.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vcpkg/.github/skills/fetch-vcpkg-ci-logs/SKILL.md
Fetch vcpkg Azure DevOps metadata, failed-step logs, and selected artifacts. Use for acquiring CI evidence, not diagnosing or reporting regressions; use analyze-ci-failures for those tasks. Skip when supplied logs are sufficient.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vcpkg/.github/skills/fix-reviewed-vcpkg-pr/SKILL.md
Address findings in an existing report produced by review-vcpkg-pr or review-vcpkg-prs-today, then push fixes for the user to submit to the contributor. Use only for follow-up fixes to those reviews, including batches. Do not use for generic bug fixes, issue resolution, or PRs without an existing review report. Never open a PR.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/vcpkg/.github/skills/review-vcpkg-pr/SKILL.md
Review a microsoft/vcpkg pull request end-to-end.
MicrosoftAGENTS.mdmicrosoft/winget-cli/AGENTS.md
Follow .github/copilot-instructions.md for repository-specific development guidance. Before filing a GitHub issue in this repository: Before opening a pull request:
MicrosoftCopilot instructionsmicrosoft/winget-cli/.github/copilot-instructions.md
This is the Windows Package Manager (WinGet) CLI client - a native Windows application for discovering and installing packages. The codebase consists of: Use a configuration file in .config as in winget configure .config/configuration.winget (alternatives provided for other VS SKUs). Manual steps: Open src\AppInstallerCLI.sln in Visual Studio and build the solution (Ctrl+Shift+B) or use msbuild.exe to build from the command line. The solution uses: - MSBuild - vcpkg for C++ dependencies - NuGet for C++ and .NET dependencies Entry point:…
MicrosoftAGENTS.mdmicrosoft/onnxruntime/AGENTS.md
This file contains repository-wide guidance for coding agents. See Extending Agent Coding Guidance when adding or updating guidance. Before implementing or reviewing changes, inspect .github/instructions/*/.instructions.md and parse each file's applyTo scope. Apply every instruction whose scope matches any target or changed path. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, matching instructions apply to both implementation and review. Repository skills are available in .github/skills. Load each skill whose description matches the requested task, subsystem, or behavior. For code reviews, follow the /code-review skill in…
MicrosoftCopilot instructionsmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Read and follow AGENTS.md for repository-wide guidance, including codebase conventions, architecture, and coding standards.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/code-review/SKILL.md
Review ONNX Runtime pull requests, branches, commits, patches, and working-tree changes for actionable findings and missing tests.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/contrib-op-shape-inference-memory-safety/SKILL.md
Audit and fix out-of-range output writes in ONNX Runtime operator shape-inference functions. Use when reviewing or fixing a contrib (or standard) op TypeAndShapeInference where a getNumOutputs() guard precedes a write to a higher output index - optional trailing outputs make a smaller output count schema-valid, so getOutputType(index) can run one past the declared outputs at Graph::Resolve.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/cuda-attention-kernel-patterns/SKILL.md
Patterns and pitfalls for the ONNX domain Attention operator (opset 23/24) CUDA implementation. Use when modifying the dispatch cascade in core/providers/cuda/llm/attention.cc, writing mask/bias CUDA kernels, debugging attention test routing, or adding features to the ONNX Attention op. NOT for contrib domain MultiHeadAttention/GroupQueryAttention.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/cuda-cutlass-fmha-incremental-rebuild/SKILL.md
Use when rebuilding ONNX Runtime CUDA after editing CUTLASS fused-MHA headers (onnxruntime/contrib_ops/cuda/bert/cutlass_fmha/*.h such as kernel_forward.h or fmha_launch_template.h), or when a header edit "passed" an incremental build but test behavior did not change. Explains the nvcc depfile gotcha that produces stale Memory-Efficient-Attention (MEA) kernels and binaries, and how to force a correct recompile. Also covers disk-space frugality on shared GPU dev boxes.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/onnx-opset-bump-checklist/SKILL.md
Step-by-step checklist for bumping the pinned ONNX dependency / opset in ONNX Runtime (e.g. ONNX 1.21 / opset 26 → 1.22 / opset 27). Use when integrating a new ONNX release or release-candidate, updating the cmake/deps.txt onnx pin or the cmake/external/onnx submodule, regenerating cmake/patches/onnx/onnx.patch, raising kMaxSupportedOpset, or adding a new opset's CPU kernels. Covers the file taxonomy, archive-hash procedures, patch rebase/mirror rules, the RC→formal strategy, and the optimizer/EP gotchas that the automated audit script misses.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/ort-build/SKILL.md
Build ONNX Runtime from source. Use this skill when asked to build, compile, or generate CMake files for ONNX Runtime.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/ort-ci/SKILL.md
Trigger, re-run, and unblock ONNX Runtime CI checks on a GitHub pull request. Use this skill when a required check is stuck, missing, failed, or needs re-running. Nearly all ORT CI runs as GitHub Actions workflows; only the "Linux Android Emulator QNN CI Pipeline" remains on Azure Pipelines, plus the bot-driven "license/cla" and "Python format" lint checks. Triggers on: rerun CI, retrigger checks, stuck check, missing pipeline, failed CI, license/cla, Python format failure, Doc Gen CI failure, operator docs out of date, /azp run.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/ort-lint/SKILL.md
Lint and format ONNX Runtime code. Use this skill when asked to lint, format, or check code style for C++ or Python files in ONNX Runtime.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/ort-release-notes/SKILL.md
Draft ONNX Runtime release notes using preset configurations for full ORT or scoped component releases. Use when generating highlights with PR links, compiling human contributor acknowledgments from compile_contributors.py output, and applying preset path filtering.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/ort-test/SKILL.md
Run ONNX Runtime tests. Use this skill when asked to run tests, debug test failures, or find and execute specific test cases in ONNX Runtime.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/ort-transformers-gpu-pytest/SKILL.md
Run the ONNX Runtime transformers Python tests (onnxruntime/test/python/transformers) against a GPU wheel, and confirm real cuDNN/flash SDPA dispatch. Use when a transformers pytest fails with ModuleNotFoundError onnxruntime.capi, when torch's bundled CUDA/cuDNN libs shadow the ORT-built ones (wrong-version dispatch or load errors), or when you must PROVE a test exercised the cuDNN SDPA decode tier instead of silently skipping/falling back to MATH.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/onnxruntime/.github/skills/python-kwargs-setattr-security/SKILL.md
When reviewing or fixing Python code that uses setattr() with user-controlled kwargs to configure C++ extension objects (SessionOptions, RunOptions, etc.) in ONNX Runtime. Use this to apply the allowlist pattern that prevents arbitrary file writes and other attacks via reflected property access.
Plain text files in a repository that tell a coding agent how the project works: commands to run, conventions to follow and things to avoid. CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, cursor rules and skills are the common kinds.
CLAUDE.md is read by Claude Code. AGENTS.md is an open format that Codex, Cursor and other agents read. Many projects keep one and point the other at it.
A folder with a SKILL.md that describes one capability, such as filling PDFs or reviewing code. The agent loads it only when the task calls for it.
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