Agent Skills
Instruction packs that give your AI agent know-how. Three different kinds — pick the right one below.
✦ Standalone skills4,610
Self-contained. Install one into any project and it works on its own — no other software needed.
🧰 Tool add-ons1,006
Come bundled with a specific tool and only work together with it — they teach your agent how to operate that tool.
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4,610 standalone skillsupdate-markdown-file-index
✓★ 36,202by github
Update a markdown file section with an index/table of files from a specified folder.
vardoger-analyze
✓★ 36,202by github
Use when the user asks to personalize the GitHub Copilot CLI assistant, adapt Copilot to their style, use vardoger, or analyze their Copilot CLI conversation history. Reads the local session directory at `~/.copilot/session-state/`, extracts recurring preferences and conventions, and writes a fenced personalization block into `~/.copilot/copilot-instructions.md`. Runs entirely on the user's machine via the local `vardoger` CLI (`pipx install vardoger`); no network calls and no uploads. Triggers:
vscode-ext-localization
✓★ 36,202by github
Guidelines for proper localization of VS Code extensions, following VS Code extension development guidelines, libraries and good practices
what-context-needed
✓★ 36,202by github
Ask Copilot what files it needs to see before answering a question
winmd-api-search
✓★ 36,202by github
Find and explore Windows desktop APIs. Use when building features that need platform capabilities — camera, file access, notifications, UI controls, AI/ML, sensors, networking, etc. Discovers the right API for a task and retrieves full type details (methods, properties, events, enumeration values).
acreadiness-assess
✓★ 36,202by github
Run the AgentRC readiness assessment on the current repository and produce a static HTML dashboard at reports/index.html. Wraps `npx github:microsoft/agentrc readiness` and hands off rendering to the @ai-readiness-reporter custom agent. Supports policies (--policy) for org-specific scoring. Use when asked to assess, audit, or score the AI readiness of a repo.
adobe-illustrator-scripting
✓★ 36,202by github
Write, debug, and optimize Adobe Illustrator automation scripts using ExtendScript (JavaScript/JSX). Use when creating or modifying scripts that manipulate documents, layers, paths, text frames, colors, symbols, artboards, or any Illustrator DOM objects. Covers the complete JavaScript object model, coordinate system, measurement units, export workflows, and scripting best practices.
agentic-eval
✓★ 36,202by github
Patterns and techniques for evaluating and improving AI agent outputs. Use this skill when: - Implementing self-critique and reflection loops - Building evaluator-optimizer pipelines for quality-critical generation - Creating test-driven code refinement workflows - Designing rubric-based or LLM-as-judge evaluation systems - Adding iterative improvement to agent outputs (code, reports, analysis) - Measuring and improving agent response quality
ai-prompt-engineering-safety-review
✓★ 36,202by github
Comprehensive AI prompt engineering safety review and improvement prompt. Analyzes prompts for safety, bias, security vulnerabilities, and effectiveness while providing detailed improvement recommendations with extensive frameworks, testing methodologies, and educational content.
daily-prep
✓★ 36,202by github
Prepare for tomorrow''s meetings and tasks. Pulls calendar from Outlook via WorkIQ, cross-references open tasks and workspace context, classifies meetings, detects conflicts and day-fit issues, finds learning and deep-work slots, and generates a structured HTML prep file with productivity recommendations.
appinsights-instrumentation
✓★ 36,202by github
Instrument a webapp to send useful telemetry data to Azure App Insights
arize-ai-provider-integration
✓★ 36,202by github
Creates, reads, updates, and deletes Arize AI integrations that store LLM provider credentials used by evaluators and other Arize features. Supports any LLM provider (e.g. OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, Gemini, NVIDIA NIM). Use when the user mentions AI integration, LLM provider credentials, create integration, list integrations, update credentials, delete integration, or connecting an LLM provider to Arize.
arize-annotation
✓★ 36,202by github
Creates and manages annotation configs (categorical, continuous, freeform label schemas) and annotation queues (human review workflows) on Arize. Applies human annotations to project spans via the Python SDK. Use when the user mentions annotation config, annotation queue, label schema, human feedback, bulk annotate spans, update_annotations, labeling queue, annotate record, or human review.
automate-this
✓★ 36,202by github
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.
aws-cdk-python-setup
✓★ 36,202by github
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.
azure-architecture-autopilot
✓★ 36,202by github
Design Azure infrastructure using natural language, or analyze existing Azure resources to auto-generate architecture diagrams, refine them through conversation, and deploy with Bicep. When to use this skill: - "Create X on Azure", "Set up a RAG architecture" (new design) - "Analyze my current Azure infrastructure", "Draw a diagram for rg-xxx" (existing analysis) - "Foundry is slow", "I want to reduce costs", "Strengthen security" (natural language modification) - Azure resource deployment, Bice
azure-devops-cli
✓★ 36,202by github
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.
cli-mastery
✓★ 36,202by github
Interactive training for the GitHub Copilot CLI. Guided lessons, quizzes, scenario challenges, and a full reference covering slash commands, shortcuts, modes, agents, skills, MCP, and configuration. Say "cliexpert" to start.
conventional-commit
✓★ 36,202by github
Prompt and workflow for generating conventional commit messages using a structured XML format. Guides users to create standardized, descriptive commit messages in line with the Conventional Commits specification, including instructions, examples, and validation.
copilot-spaces
✓★ 36,202by github
Use Copilot Spaces to provide project-specific context to conversations. Use this skill when users mention a "Copilot space", want to load context from a shared knowledge base, discover available spaces, or ask questions grounded in curated project documentation, code, and instructions.
copilot-usage-metrics
✓★ 36,202by github
Retrieve and display GitHub Copilot usage metrics for organizations and enterprises using the GitHub CLI and REST API.
creating-oracle-to-postgres-migration-bug-report
✓★ 36,202by github
Creates structured bug reports for defects found during Oracle-to-PostgreSQL migration. Use when documenting behavioral differences between Oracle and PostgreSQL as actionable bug reports with severity, root cause, and remediation steps.
dataverse-python-production-code
✓★ 36,202by github
Generate production-ready Python code using Dataverse SDK with error handling, optimization, and best practices
dataverse-python-quickstart
✓★ 36,202by github
Generate Python SDK setup + CRUD + bulk + paging snippets using official patterns.
email-drafter
✓★ 36,202by github
Draft and review professional emails that match your personal writing style. Analyzes your sent emails for tone, greeting, structure, and sign-off patterns via WorkIQ, then generates context-aware drafts for any recipient. USE FOR: draft email, write email, compose email, reply email, follow-up email, analyze email tone, email style.
exam-ready
✓★ 36,202by github
Activate this skill when a student provides study material (PDF or pasted notes) and a syllabus, and wants to prepare for an exam. Extracts key definitions, points, keywords, diagrams, exam-ready sentences, and practice questions strictly from the provided material.
excalidraw-diagram-generator
✓★ 36,202by github
Generate Excalidraw diagrams from natural language descriptions. Use when asked to "create a diagram", "make a flowchart", "visualize a process", "draw a system architecture", "create a mind map", or "generate an Excalidraw file". Supports flowcharts, relationship diagrams, mind maps, and system architecture diagrams. Outputs .excalidraw JSON files that can be opened directly in Excalidraw.
eyeball
✓★ 36,202by github
Document analysis with inline source screenshots. When you ask Copilot to analyze a document, Eyeball generates a Word doc where every factual claim includes a highlighted screenshot from the source material so you can verify it with your own eyes.
first-ask
✓★ 36,202by github
Interactive, input-tool powered, task refinement workflow: interrogates scope, deliverables, constraints before carrying out the task; Requires the Joyride extension.
flowstudio-power-automate-monitoring
✓★ 36,202by github
Pro+ subscription required. Tenant-wide Power Automate monitoring using the FlowStudio MCP cached store: failure rates, run-health trends, maker/app inventory, inactive owners, and compliance/health reports. Use only for aggregated tenant views. For one environment, one flow, run control, or root-cause debugging, use flowstudio-power-automate-mcp, flowstudio-power-automate-debug, or the server monitor-flow bundle. Requires FlowStudio for Teams or MCP Pro+.