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MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/apm-strategy/SKILL.md
Activate for changes to project positioning, release communication, community-facing artifacts, or breaking-change decisions in microsoft/apm. Triggers on README, MANIFESTO, PRD, CHANGELOG, release workflows, and issue templates.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-comment/SKILL.md
Use this skill to post or patch ONE GitHub comment for a microsoft/apm autopilot run. It owns public vs debug body assembly and the AI disclaimer footer. Never labels, assigns, requests reviewers, or merges. Autopilot skills that write comments must load this skill and must not call gh comment APIs themselves.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-issue-delivery-scheduler/SKILL.md
Use this skill to queue maintainer-accepted microsoft/apm issues (`status/accepted`) and fan them out through an isolated pool (default 2) of autopilot-issue-delivery-worker sessions. Any accepted type is eligible. Advisory `triage/recommended` is not authorization. Does not triage. Does not review PRs. Works in a local session, Copilot App automation, Cloud Agent, Remote Agent, or Agentic Workflow.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-issue-delivery-worker/SKILL.md
Use this skill to implement ONE microsoft/apm issue already selected by autopilot-issue-delivery-scheduler. Queue signal is `status/accepted` or a named bounded accept; that is not permission. Requires fresh human-scope evidence from scripts/governance before any mutate. May reproduce a bug, implement the accepted change, and open a fix PR. Not a queue manager and not a triage scheduler. Works in the scheduler's session, a child session, Cloud Agent, Remote Agent, or Agentic Workflow.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-issue-triage-scheduler/SKILL.md
Queue open microsoft/apm issues and fan them out through an isolated pool (default 2) of autopilot-issue-triage-worker sessions. Advisory only. Never implements, never assigns, never requests reviewers. Activate on a mixed issue list or queue-all when the job is triage. Works in a local session, Copilot App automation, Cloud Agent, Remote Agent, or Agentic Workflow.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-issue-triage-worker/SKILL.md
Use this skill to triage ONE microsoft/apm issue already selected by autopilot-issue-triage-scheduler. Return one advisory recommendation and a proposed scope brief, never human approval. Do not implement the issue, manage the backlog, or list the queue.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-pr-merge-worker/SKILL.md
Drive ONE already selected open pull request in microsoft/apm to mergeable. Classifies copilot-pull-request-reviewer[bot] inline review, runs autopilot-pr-review-worker, folds (by default) every recommendation inside the PR's stated scope, pushes to the head branch or a superseding PR that preserves authorship via commit trailers, watches CI to green (`agent-merge` when that skill or `<agent_merge_state>` is present; otherwise `gh pr checks --watch`), and iterates under fixed caps until ready-to-merge, advisory-with-deferred, superseded, or blocked. Plan before any fold, push, or reviewer request. Never spawned by autopilot-pr-review-scheduler. That scheduler is advisory only. Invoke this skill by name when the caller asked to drive a PR to merge.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-pr-review-scheduler/SKILL.md
Queue microsoft/apm pull requests labelled `panel-review` (or an explicit named list) and fan them out through an isolated pool (default 2) of autopilot-pr-review-worker sessions. Advisory only. Never implements. Never composes autopilot-pr-merge-worker. Never review every open PR. Works in a local session, Copilot App automation, Cloud Agent, Remote Agent, or Agentic Workflow. Does not triage issues or open greenfield PRs.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-pr-review-worker/SKILL.md
Use this skill to run a multi-persona expert advisory review on a labelled pull request in microsoft/apm. panel-mode (full | lean | delta) selects a surface-gated roster plus a CEO synthesizer; omitted or unknown mode is lean. Do not spawn inactive stubs. The orchestrator is the sole writer to the PR: ONE recommendation comment, no verdict labels, no merge gating. The panel is advisory -- it surfaces findings, prioritizes follow-ups, and renders a ship-recommendation that the maintainer and author weigh.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-pr-triage-scheduler/SKILL.md
Queue open microsoft/apm pull requests (community fixes, PRs without an issue, or PRs that close an issue) and fan them out through an isolated pool (default 2) of autopilot-pr-triage-worker sessions. Advisory only. Never merges, never assigns, never requests reviewers, never runs autopilot-pr-review-worker. Activate on a mixed PR list or queue-open when the job is PR triage. Works in a local session, Copilot App automation, Cloud Agent, Remote Agent, or Agentic Workflow.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/autopilot-pr-triage-worker/SKILL.md
Use this skill to triage ONE microsoft/apm pull request already selected by autopilot-pr-triage-scheduler. Covers community PRs that fix an issue and PRs opened without an issue. Return one advisory recommendation, never human approval, never a diff review, never merge. Not a queue manager and not autopilot-pr-review-worker.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/cli-logging-ux/SKILL.md
Use this skill when editing or creating CLI output, logging, warnings, error messages, progress indicators, or diagnostic summaries in the APM codebase. Activate whenever code touches console helpers (_rich_success, _rich_warning, _rich_error, _rich_info, _rich_echo), DiagnosticCollector, STATUS_SYMBOLS, CommandLogger, or any user-facing terminal output — even if the user doesn't mention "logging" or "UX" explicitly.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/cut-release/SKILL.md
Use this skill to cut an APM release from the current worktree: assess whether the cycle since the last tag warrants a patch or minor bump (semver discipline against the merged-since-last-tag diff), sanitize the [Unreleased] CHANGELOG block into a dated version block with one concise "so what" entry per merged PR (drop internal-only churn, consolidate duplicates), bump pyproject.toml + uv.lock, run the CI-mirror lint chain, and open the release PR. Activate on "ship a release", "cut v0.x", "release prep", "bump and PR", "open release PR", "what kind of release do we need", or any phrasing that ends in opening a release PR -- even when the user does not say "skill". Stops BEFORE tagging; tagging stays a human gate that triggers the release workflow. Refuses to bump to a major (>= 1.0.0) version without explicit operator confirmation.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/devx-ux/SKILL.md
Activate when designing or modifying CLI command surfaces, command help text, install/init/run flows, error wording, or first-run experience in the APM CLI -- even when the user does not say "UX" explicitly.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/docs-corpus-audit/SKILL.md
Use this skill to run a holistic regrounding pass on the entire microsoft/apm documentation corpus against current source code, page-by-page, and emit surgical fixes for stale claims. Activate when the maintainer wants a WHOLE-CORPUS audit (not per-PR review) -- typical triggers include "audit the docs", "reground the corpus", "check every page against code", "pre-release docs sweep", "the docs have drifted everywhere", or "we just reshaped the TOC, find dead links". Wave-batched and S7-verified; scales to the full ~112-page corpus in ~10 minutes wall-time. This is a SIBLING to docs-sync, not a replacement: docs-sync is per-PR (triggered by a diff); this skill is per-corpus (triggered by a maintainer ask). They share agent personas, schemas, and the docs index, but their triggers MUST NOT collide. Does NOT auto-merge, does NOT push without maintainer review, and does NOT replace per-PR drift detection.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/docs-grounding-verifier/SKILL.md
Use this skill to verify CLAIM-LEVEL grounding of a documentation page (or set of pages) against the source code. Activate when you have specific pages to check for factual accuracy -- not when sweeping a whole corpus (use docs-corpus-audit for that) and not when triaging a PR diff (use docs-sync for that). Trigger nouns: "is this doc accurate", "verify the page against the code", "fact-check this section", "any claims that drifted from source", "fact-checking", "grounding audit", "drift hunt", "claim verification". Returns per-claim verdicts (GROUNDED | PARTIAL | CONTRADICTED | UNSUPPORTED) with file:line evidence citations. Catches paragraph-level inaccuracies that page-level audit averages over -- e.g. a paragraph with 5 claims where 4 are grounded and 1 is fabricated. Does NOT modify files (returns advisory only); does NOT re-architect the docs; does NOT triage PRs.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/docs-impact-architect/SKILL.md
Use this skill when the docs-impact-classifier returns a structural verdict, signalling that the documentation TOC must change to accommodate the PR. Proposes TOC deltas (new pages, moves, merges) and emits new-page outline stubs that the doc-sync panel later fleshes out. Holds the 3-promise narrative (consume / produce / govern) and the persona ramps as hard constraints.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/docs-impact-classifier/SKILL.md
Use this skill to classify the documentation impact of a pull request diff, returning one of three verdicts -- no-change, in-place edit, or structural change -- with bounded LLM cost. Activate as a sibling skill of docs-sync; the orchestrator calls this first, before any panel spawn, to keep cost floor at 1 LLM call when no docs work is needed. Reads .apm/docs-index.yml as the corpus map; never reads the full corpus.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/docs-impact-localizer/SKILL.md
Use this skill to translate a classifier's in-place verdict into a precise, page-by-page work plan for the docs-sync panel. Activate after docs-impact-classifier returns verdict in_place; reads the candidate page list, fetches the actual page contents, narrows scope to specific sections within each page, and emits the per-page task brief the panel fans out against.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/apm/.agents/skills/docs-sync/SKILL.md
Use this skill whenever a pull request is opened, reopened, or synchronized in microsoft/apm to assess whether and how the documentation corpus must change to stay truthful with the proposed code change. Activate even when the PR title or body says nothing about docs -- the skill must run on every PR to detect silent drift between code and docs. Classifies impact as no-change, in-place edit (one to a few paragraphs), or structural change (new page or TOC reshape), then orchestrates a CDO + doc-writer + python-architect + editorial-owner + growth-hacker loop to produce a patch-ready advisory. Does NOT review code quality, security, or test coverage. Does NOT auto-merge or auto-push doc edits.
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.
Your agents already can, over MCP, limited to the files you're allowed to read. Searching them from this page is coming.
