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MicrosoftAGENTS.mdmicrosoft/WinUI-Gallery/AGENTS.md
Follow the repository architecture, build, accessibility, and coding guidance in .github/copilot-instructions.md. For the full sample-authoring guidance, including how little description text to use and where options and output go, see the gallery-control-samples skill in .github/skills/gallery-control-samples/SKILL.md.
MicrosoftCopilot instructionsmicrosoft/WinUI-Gallery/.github/copilot-instructions.md
Solution: Open WinUIGallery.slnx in Visual Studio 2026. Set WinUIGallery as the startup project. Build configurations: Debug, Release, Preview, Stable, Store, Sideload, Debug-Unpackaged. Platforms: x86, x64, ARM64. This is a WinUI 3 / Windows App SDK gallery app that demonstrates controls, styles, and design patterns. It is a companion to the Fluent Design guidelines. Each control demo lives in its own folder under Samples/{UniqueId}/ (e.g., Samples/Button/, Samples/CheckBox/). The folder name must match the control's UniqueId from ControlInfoData.json — this convention is…
MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/WinUI-Gallery/.github/skills/gallery-control-samples/SKILL.md
How to design and build control sample pages in WinUI Gallery. Use when adding or changing a control page, a ControlExample, a sample snippet (.txt), or a ControlInfoData.json entry. Covers page structure, keeping description text to a minimum, placing options and output in the side panels, snippet format, and validation.
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.
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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.
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MicrosoftAGENTS.mdmicrosoft/DirectXShaderCompiler/AGENTS.md
- Start from evidence. Identify the exact pass, hot function, and triggering operation before proposing a fix. Enumerate every limit, cutoff, cache, and heuristic on that path. - Check this…
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MicrosoftCopilot instructionsmicrosoft/DirectXShaderCompiler/.github/copilot-instructions.md
When reviewing pull requests in this repository, always check whether docs/ReleaseNotes.md should be updated. Use the release note policy in CONTRIBUTING.md ("Release Notes") as the default: - Release notes are…
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MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/DirectXShaderCompiler/.github/skills/cherry-pick/SKILL.md
Cherry-pick a commit onto another branch and open the PR. Use when the user asks to cherry-pick or backport a commit or PR to a release branch.
6 projects use a version of this
MicrosoftCopilot instructionsmicrosoft/ebpf-for-windows/.github/copilot-instructions.md
This project brings eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) to Windows, enabling programmable OS kernel extensions for use cases like network filtering and observability. See docs/GettingStarted.md for prerequisites, build options, and detailed setup. See docs/AutomatedTests.md for test categories and descriptions.
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MicrosoftSkillmicrosoft/ebpf-for-windows/.github/skills/adversarial-branch-review/SKILL.md
Perform a deep adversarial review of C/C++ changes between an active branch and a baseline branch in ebpf-for-windows. Produce both a detailed review report and a point-by-point fix list.
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1 project uses a version of this
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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