One search for your own team's files and the public ecosystem. See how real projects write their agent instructions, and bring the good ideas home.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ebpf-for-windows/.github/skills/verify-prevail/SKILL.md
Diagnose eBPF program verification failures from the PREVAIL verifier. Use this skill for linux-compatible eBPF programs verified in the standalone PREVAIL repo (external/ebpf-verifier). For programs using Windows-specific features (bpf2c pipeline, Windows helpers, ebpf-for-windows headers), use the 'verify-bpf' skill instead.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/docs/cowork-collective/badge-check/assets/SKILL.md
Use this skill when generating reports, tables, or email output to produce polished, self-contained, responsive HTML.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/docs/recruit-nextgen/06-add-skills/assets/device-guidance-v1-0-1/SKILL.md
Helps employees identify available device options based on their needs, using the `Get Employee Assets` tool.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/docs/recruit-nextgen/06-add-skills/assets/device-guidance-v1-0-2/SKILL.md
Helps employees identify available device options based on their needs, using the `Get Employee Assets` tool.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/docs/recruit-nextgen/06-add-skills/assets/device-guidance-v1-0-3/SKILL.md
Helps employees identify available device options based on their needs, using the `Get Employee Assets` tool.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/docs/recruit-nextgen/06-add-skills/assets/it-troubleshooting-procedure/SKILL.md
Call this when a user states an IT issue and requests troubleshooting help. It provides step-by-step procedure for diagnosing and resolving IT issues, including escalation with a ticket summary.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/docs/recruit-nextgen/07-automate-with-workflows/assets/device-guidance-v1-0-4/SKILL.md
Helps employees identify available device options based on their needs, using the `Get Employee Assets` tool.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/docs/special-ops/docusign-mcp/assets/sample-skill/SKILL.md
Create a 1-hour Outlook follow-up meeting for pre-onboarding after a successful Docusign workflow trigger, using the employee name and agreement effective date from workflow context.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/.github/skills/agent-academy-mission-builder/SKILL.md
Scaffold and author content for the microsoft/agent-academy GitHub repo. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create a new mission, lab, or module for Agent Academy — whether that's a course mission (Recruit, Operative, Commander) or a standalone Special Ops mission. Trigger whenever the user says "write a mission", "scaffold a lab", "create a Special Ops", "new Agent Academy module", or describes an agent-building concept they want to turn into a hands-on lesson. Also trigger when the user says "add a module to agent academy", "I want to contribute a mission", or asks about badge creation for Special Ops. This skill handles: repo structure lookup, duplicate detection, mission naming, markdown scaffolding, step-by-step content drafting, cross-linking, tag/category suggestions, difficulty rating, and badge image generation for Special Ops missions.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/.github/skills/agent-academy-report/SKILL.md
Generate a full Agent Academy feedback report — extracting feedback from Excel files and GitHub issues, analyzing sentiment, generating charts, and producing a single styled PDF with a cover page, management summary, and detailed analysis. Use this skill when the user asks to generate an Agent Academy report, create a feedback analysis, build a course completion report, or wants to analyze Agent Academy survey data. Also triggers when the user mentions Agent Academy feedback, course grades, sentiment analysis of Agent Academy data, or exporting Agent Academy results to PDF.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/.github/skills/agent-academy-stargazers/SKILL.md
Look up who has starred the microsoft/agent-academy repository on GitHub. Use this skill whenever the user wants to check stargazers, see if a specific GitHub user has starred the repo, or retrieve an up-to-date list of stargazers. Trigger whenever the user says "who starred agent academy", "check stargazers", "has <user> starred the repo", or asks anything about the repository's stargazer list. This skill uses the GitHub CLI to fetch stargazers via the GitHub API and saves the results to a local JSON file. It will install prerequisites if needed.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/.github/skills/create-mission-spec/SKILL.md
Turn a mission or lab idea into a fully researched GitHub issue spec on microsoft/agent-academy, then post it with the GitHub CLI. Use this skill whenever the user wants to propose new Agent Academy content before writing it — course missions (Recruit, Operative, Commander), standalone Special Ops, or Cowork Collective missions. Trigger whenever the user says "write a spec for a mission", "create an issue for a new lab", "I want to propose a Special Ops", "file a mission proposal", "spec out a lab", "open an issue for a new module", or hands over Microsoft Learn URLs and asks to turn them into an Agent Academy lab. This skill handles: mining source documentation, interviewing for scope, repo reconnaissance and duplicate detection across both docs and existing issues, frontmatter and tag validation, writing-style conformance, drafting the issue body, title conventions, milestone and assignee metadata, and posting plus verifying the issue via `gh`.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/agent-academy/.github/skills/frontend-design/SKILL.md
Create distinctive, production-grade frontend interfaces with high design quality. Use this skill when the user asks to build web components, pages, artifacts, posters, or applications (examples include websites, landing pages, dashboards, React components, HTML/CSS layouts, or when styling/beautifying any web UI). Generates creative, polished code and UI design that avoids generic AI aesthetics.
MicrosoftAGENTS.mdmicrosoft/tgrep/AGENTS.md
A short guide for AI agents (and the humans who wire them up) that want to use tgrep as a fast search tool inside a repository. It complements the README, which documents every flag; this file covers the few things an agent has to get right. tgrep is ripgrep with a pre-built trigram index and an optional server. A search resolves in this order: 1. Server running for this tree: query it over TCP. Fastest. A file watcher keeps the…
MicrosoftCLAUDE.mdmicrosoft/Power-Fx/CLAUDE.md
Power Fx is a low-code general-purpose programming language based on spreadsheet-like formulas. This is the open-source C# implementation used across Microsoft Power Platform. The codebase contains a complete compiler and interpreter. Build configurations: Debug/Release (single-target), Debug462/Release462 (net462 only), Debug70/Release70 (net7.0 only), DebugAll/ReleaseAll (multi-target, used by local build scripts). Separation of Compilation and Execution: Core compiles to IR with zero evaluation code. Multiple backends (JavaScript, SQL, etc.) can consume the same IR independently. Symbol Table Composition: Layered symbol tables (Config ->…
MicrosoftCLAUDE.mdmicrosoft/Power-Fx/src/CLAUDE.md
Power Fx is a low-code general-purpose programming language based on spreadsheet-like formulas. This is the open-source implementation of the language used across Microsoft Power Platform. The codebase contains a complete compiler and interpreter infrastructure written in C#. Note: The runLocalTests.cmd script runs tests for both .NET Framework 4.6.2 and .NET 7.0 configurations using VSTest. The Power Fx implementation follows a classic multi-phase compiler architecture: Expression Text → [Lexer] → Tokens → [Parser] → AST → [Binder] → Typed AST →…
MicrosoftCopilot instructionsmicrosoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.github/copilot-instructions.md
No summary in the file. Open it to read it.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.github/skills/agent-collaboration/SKILL.md
Standard collaboration patterns for all squad agents — worktree awareness, decisions, cross-agent communication
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.github/skills/coordinator-init-mode/SKILL.md
The complete two-phase Init Mode protocol the Squad coordinator runs when no team exists yet in the current repo. Phase 1 = propose the team (no files created, wait for user confirm). Phase 2 = create .squad/ scaffolding, casting state, .gitattributes for merge drivers, and the always-on built-ins (Scribe, Ralph, Rai, Fact Checker). Loaded on demand when the coordinator detects no .squad/team.md exists.
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/.github/skills/coordinator-response-mode/SKILL.md
Selecting WHO handles work is the Routing table; selecting HOW they handle it (Direct, Lightweight, Standard, Full) is Response Mode. This skill contains the complete decision table, exemplar prompts for each mode, the Lightweight spawn template, and the upgrade rules. Squad coordinator loads this on demand once routing has identified the agent — to pick the right ceremony level for the task.
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.
