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microsoft ai-agents-for-beginners
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LABSCO SUMMARY
ai-agents-for-beginners is a 15-lesson course — agent use cases, agentic frameworks, design patterns such as tool use, agentic RAG, planning, multi-agent and metacognition, production concerns, the MCP/A2A/NLWeb protocols, context engineering, and computer-use agents — built around Microsoft Agent Framework and Azure AI Foundry Agent Service V2, with a video and code sample for each lesson and translations into 50+ languages via an automated GitHub Action.
What the repository indexes as skills has nothing to do with any of that: jupyter-notebook scaffolds a blank .ipynb from the course's bundled templates, and microsoft-docs looks up Microsoft Learn, falling back to Context7 or Aspire MCP for anything off learn.microsoft.com. Both are generic developer-tooling skills useful on any Microsoft-adjacent Python project — support for working through the course's code samples, not a demonstration of the patterns the lessons teach.
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The two descriptions we read are not in English. jupyter-notebook's description is written in Filipino/Tagalog and microsoft-docs's in Spanish, even though the repository's README and lesson text are English. We report them as captured rather than translating or normalizing them, per our rule against inventing content.
Neither skill needs an Azure account, even though the course itself does. jupyter-notebook runs as a local tool and microsoft-docs as a hosted MCP service — no account key between them — but the course material these two skills support is built on Microsoft Agent Framework with Azure AI Foundry Agent Service V2, which the README lists as requiring an Azure subscription, with MiniMax's OpenAI-compatible API as the only listed alternative for a subset of samples.
This is a page for someone working through Microsoft's course who wants a scaffolded notebook or a documentation lookup alongside it, not a place to find tool-use, planning or multi-agent code as a reusable skill — the course teaches those with Python in each lesson's own folder.
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AGENT PERSONALITIES
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.NET-Notebook-Migration-Agent
Expert .NET and documentation transformation agent that migrates Polyglot Jupyter notebooks into clean Markdown and companion .NET sample code.
PROMPT TEMPLATES
1 itemPROMPT TEMPLATE
git cherrypicking.prompt
Cherrypick a file deleted from the given commit between branches using Git.
WHAT'S INSIDE
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SETUP
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jupyter-notebook
A Jupyter notebook is a document where code, its results and the explanation sit side by side; this is the house method for producing one that stays clean and readable.
microsoft-docs
Microsoft's documentation is not all in one place — this says which search tool actually holds the answer for each product, so you stop hunting in the wrong one.
No skill in this package matches that.
HOW TO GET IT
WHOLE PACKAGEInstall the whole package (2 skills)
npx skills add microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginnersSINGLE SKILLOr install a single skill
npx skills add microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners --skill <name> --full-depthPick the skill name from the Skills tab — each entry there installs independently.