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GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/aspire/SKILL.md
Aspire skill covering the Aspire CLI, AppHost orchestration, service discovery, integrations, MCP server, VS Code extension, Dev Containers, GitHub Codespaces, templates, dashboard, and deployment. Use when the user asks to create, run, debug, configure, deploy, or troubleshoot an Aspire distributed application.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/aspnet-minimal-api-openapi/SKILL.md
Create ASP.NET Minimal API endpoints with proper OpenAPI documentation
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/audit-integrity/SKILL.md
Shared audit integrity framework for all AppSec agents — enforces output quality, intellectual honesty, and continuous improvement through anti-rationalization guards, self-critique loops, retry protocols, non-negotiable behaviors, self-reflection quality gates (1-10 scoring, ≥8 threshold), and a self-learning system with lesson/memory governance for security analysis agents.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/automate-this/SKILL.md
Analyze a screen recording of a manual process and produce targeted, working automation scripts. Extracts frames and audio narration from video files, reconstructs the step-by-step workflow, and proposes automation at multiple complexity levels using tools already installed on the user machine.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/autoresearch/SKILL.md
Autonomous iterative experimentation loop for any programming task. Guides the user through defining goals, measurable metrics, and scope constraints, then runs an autonomous loop of code changes, testing, measuring, and keeping/discarding results. Inspired by Karpathy''s autoresearch. USE FOR: autonomous improvement, iterative optimization, experiment loop, auto research, performance tuning, automated experimentation, hill climbing, try things automatically, optimize code, run experiments, autonomous coding loop. DO NOT USE FOR: one-shot tasks, simple bug fixes, code review, or tasks without a measurable metric.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/aws-cdk-python-setup/SKILL.md
Setup and initialization guide for developing AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) applications in Python. This skill enables users to configure environment prerequisites, create new CDK projects, manage dependencies, and deploy to AWS.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/aws-cloudwatch-investigation/SKILL.md
Reusable investigation patterns for AWS CloudWatch: Logs Insights query templates, alarm-to-deployment correlation, blast-radius narrowing decision tree, and PromQL-style metric query patterns for structured incident triage.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/aws-cost-optimize/SKILL.md
Analyze AWS resources used in the app (IaC files and/or resources in a target account/region) and optimize costs - creating GitHub issues for identified optimizations.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/aws-resource-health-diagnose/SKILL.md
Analyze AWS resource health, diagnose issues from CloudWatch logs and metrics, and create a remediation plan for identified problems.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/aws-resource-query/SKILL.md
Query AWS resources using natural language. Covers EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, Secrets Manager, IAM, VPC, networking, messaging, and more. Strictly read-only — no writes, deletes, or mutations.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/aws-well-architected-review/SKILL.md
Perform an AWS Well-Architected Framework review of the current workload IaC and architecture, generating findings and GitHub issues for improvements.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/az-cost-optimize/SKILL.md
Analyze Azure resources used in the app (IaC files and/or resources in a target rg) and optimize costs - creating GitHub issues for identified optimizations.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/azure-architecture-autopilot/SKILL.md
Design Azure infrastructure using natural language, or analyze existing Azure resources to auto-generate architecture diagrams, refine them through conversation, and deploy with Bicep.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/azure-container-registry-cli/SKILL.md
Manage Azure Container Registry via the az acr CLI including registries, images, cloud builds, ACR Tasks, authentication, tokens, geo-replication, and networking. Use when working with ACR, az acr commands, pushing/importing/purging container images in Azure, or when the user mentions Azure Container Registry.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/azure-deployment-preflight/SKILL.md
Performs comprehensive preflight validation of Bicep deployments to Azure, including template syntax validation, what-if analysis, and permission checks. Use this skill before any deployment to Azure to preview changes, identify potential issues, and ensure the deployment will succeed. Activate when users mention deploying to Azure, validating Bicep files, checking deployment permissions, previewing infrastructure changes, running what-if, or preparing for azd provision.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/azure-developer-cli/SKILL.md
Design, create, review, migrate, or troubleshoot Azure Developer CLI (azd) projects using current Microsoft guidance. Use for azd, azure.yaml, AZD templates, Bicep or Terraform under infra, AZD environments and secrets, hooks, deployment workflows, and azd-managed CI/CD.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/azure-devops-cli/SKILL.md
Manage Azure DevOps resources via CLI including projects, repos, pipelines, builds, pull requests, work items, artifacts, and service endpoints. Use when working with Azure DevOps, az commands, devops automation, CI/CD, or when user mentions Azure DevOps CLI.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/azure-pricing/SKILL.md
Fetches real-time Azure retail pricing using the Azure Retail Prices API (prices.azure.com) and estimates Copilot Studio agent credit consumption. Use when the user asks about the cost of any Azure service, wants to compare SKU prices, needs pricing data for a cost estimate, mentions Azure pricing, Azure costs, Azure billing, or asks about Copilot Studio pricing, Copilot Credits, or agent usage estimation. Covers compute, storage, networking, databases, AI, Copilot Studio, and all other Azure service families.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/azure-resource-health-diagnose/SKILL.md
Analyze Azure resource health, diagnose issues from logs and telemetry, and create a remediation plan for identified problems.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/azure-resource-visualizer/SKILL.md
Analyze Azure resource groups and generate detailed Mermaid architecture diagrams showing the relationships between individual resources. Use this skill when the user asks for a diagram of their Azure resources or help in understanding how the resources relate to each other.
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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