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**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Prepare Azure apps for deployment (Bicep/Terraform, azure.yaml, Dockerfiles). WHEN: "create app", "build web app", "create API", "deploy to Azure", "generate Bicep", "generate Terraform", "function app", "add authentication", "managed…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Azure compliance and security auditing: best practices, Key Vault expiration monitoring, resource validation. WHEN: "compliance scan", "security audit", "Key Vault expiration check", "expired certificates", "orphaned resources". DO NOT…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Identify cost savings across Azure subscriptions via cost + utilization analysis. WHEN: "optimize Azure costs", "reduce Azure spending", "find cost savings", "rightsize VMs", "find orphaned resources", "optimize Redis costs". DO NOT USE…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Execute Azure deployments (azd up, azd deploy, terraform apply) for already-prepared apps with built-in error recovery. WHEN: 'run azd up', 'run azd deploy', 'push to production', 'go live', 'bicep deploy', 'terraform apply', 'publish to…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Azure Storage Services: Blob, File Shares, Queue, Table, and Data Lake. Object storage, SMB shares, async messaging, NoSQL key-value, big-data analytics. Access tiers + lifecycle management. WHEN: "blob storage", "file shares", "queue…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Pre-deployment validation for Azure: config, infrastructure (Bicep/Terraform), permissions, prerequisites. WHEN: 'validate my app', 'check deployment readiness', 'run preflight checks', 'validate azure.yaml', 'validate Bicep', 'test…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Guides Microsoft Entra ID app registration, OAuth 2.0 authentication, and MSAL integration. WHEN: "create app registration", "register Azure AD app", "configure OAuth", "add API permissions", "generate service principal", "MSAL example",…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Creates Azure Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) with WAF pillar mapping, alternatives, and consequences. WHEN: "create ADR", "document decision", "architecture decision record", "record why we chose", "WAF pillar justification",…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Artifact template structures, H2 compliance rules, and documentation styling for agent outputs (Steps 1-7). WHEN: "generate artifact", "check H2 structure", "artifact template", "step 7 as-built". USE FOR: generating any agent artifact,…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Two-mode context-window management. RUNTIME: artifact compression (full/summarized/minimal) used by orchestrator and codegen agents. AUDIT: post-mortem analysis of Copilot debug logs (token profiling, redundancy + hand-off gap detection)…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Maintains repository documentation accuracy and freshness across the docs site, agent files, and changelog. WHEN: "update docs", "doc gardening", "staleness check", "changelog entry", "repo explanation", "agent change docs", "skill change…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Generate Azure architecture diagrams in .drawio via simonkurtz-MSFT MCP server (full Azure icon set, batch creation, transactional mode). Covers architecture, dependency, runtime-flow, and as-built diagrams. WHEN: 'draw.io diagram',…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Creates, restructures, and audits GitHub Copilot `.agent.md` and `.prompt.md` files with correct frontmatter, handoffs, model policy, context budgets, and validation. WHEN: "create agent", "author custom agent", "edit agent definition",…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Reusable Azure Bicep patterns: hub-spoke, private endpoints, diagnostics, AVM composition. WHEN: "hub-spoke Bicep", "private endpoint module", "diagnostic settings", "AVM Bicep composition". USE FOR: Bicep template design, hub-spoke…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Recommend Azure VM sizes and VMSS for workload, performance, and budget. Uses public docs and the Azure Retail Prices API. WHEN: "recommend VM size", "choose Azure VM", "GPU VM", "compare VM sizes", "VMSS vs VM", "autoscale VMs". DO NOT…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Applies canonical Azure defaults through an IaC workflow covering governance precedence, CAF naming, AVM-first composition, unique suffixes, cost monitoring, VNet planning, and lifecycle checks. WHEN: "Azure naming convention", "CAF…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Mermaid diagrams for inline markdown: flowcharts, sequence, Gantt, class, state, ER. WHEN: "mermaid flowchart", "sequence diagram", "Gantt chart", "state diagram", "ER diagram", "inline markdown diagram". DO NOT USE FOR: rendered…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Query official Microsoft documentation to understand concepts, find tutorials, and learn how services work. WHEN: "Microsoft Learn", "Azure docs", "quickstart guide", "limits and quotas", "WAF reference", "architecture pattern docs". DO…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Python diagram generation for Azure architectures, WAF/cost/compliance charts, ERDs, swimlanes, timelines, and wireframes. WHEN: 'architecture diagram', 'WAF bar chart', 'cost chart', 'ERD', 'swimlane', 'timeline', 'wireframe'. DO NOT USE…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Reusable Azure Terraform patterns: hub-spoke, private endpoints, diagnostics, AVM-TF modules. WHEN: "hub-spoke Terraform", "private endpoint module", "AVM-TF composition", "diagnostic settings", "plan interpretation". DO NOT USE FOR: Bicep…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Discover existing Azure resources and bulk import them into Terraform management. WHEN: "terraform import", "import Azure resources", "bring unmanaged infra under Terraform", "adopt Terraform for existing resources", "generate import…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Write and run Terraform tests (.tftest.hcl). WHEN: "create terraform test", "write tftest", ".tftest.hcl", "mock provider", "test module", "test assertion". USE FOR: test files, run blocks, assertions, mock providers, plan-mode unit…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Machine-readable workflow DAG for the multi-step agent pipeline. Defines node types, edge conditions, gates, and fan-out patterns. WHEN: "orchestrator step routing", "resume from graph", "workflow validation", "workflow DAG", "workflow…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Azure Policy discovery: effective assignments (incl. MG-inherited), definitions/exemptions, effect classification, emits governance-constraints JSON. WHEN: 'Azure policy discovery', 'effective policy assignments', 'governance…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Audit-grade reference for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT-5.6 prompting best practices. WHEN: "claude prompting", "gpt-5.6 prompting", "audit agent", "review prompt", "vendor best practices", "anthropic best practices", "openai…
Authoritative reference for VS Code Copilot customization mechanisms: instructions, prompt files, custom agents, agent skills, MCP servers, hooks, and plugins. Use when deciding which customization type to use, creating new…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Shared IaC deploy patterns for Bicep + Terraform agents: deployment strategies, circuit breaker, known deploy issues. WHEN: "phased deployment", "circuit breaker", "deploy strategy", "deploy issue", "shared IaC pattern". DO NOT USE FOR:…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Assess and migrate cross-cloud workloads to Azure. Generates assessment reports and converts code from AWS, GCP, or other providers to Azure services. WHEN: "migrate Lambda to Azure Functions", "migrate AWS to Azure", "convert AWS…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Debug and troubleshoot Azure production issues: Container Apps + Function Apps diagnostics, KQL log analysis, health checks. WHEN: 'debug production issues', 'troubleshoot container apps', 'troubleshoot function apps', 'image pull…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Query and analyze data in Azure Data Explorer (Kusto/ADX) using KQL. WHEN: "KQL queries", "Kusto database queries", "Azure Data Explorer", "ADX clusters", "time series data", "IoT telemetry", "anomaly detection". DO NOT USE FOR: App…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — List, find, and visualize Azure resources via Resource Graph or Mermaid. WHEN: 'list resources', 'list VMs', 'find orphaned resources', 'resource inventory', 'cross-subscription query', 'visualize Azure resources', 'diagram my resources'.…
**UTILITY SKILL** — Check and manage Azure quotas and usage across providers for deployment planning, capacity validation, and region selection. WHEN: "check quotas", "service limits", "request quota increase", "quota exceeded", "validate capacity", "regional…
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Full GitHub contribution lifecycle: branches, conventional commits, issues, PRs, Actions, releases. gh CLI-first with MCP fallback. WHEN: "commit", "push", "open PR", "create branch", "create issue", "cut release", "GitHub operation". DO…
**ANALYSIS SKILL** — Find the right Azure RBAC role for an identity with least-privilege access; generate CLI, Bicep, and Terraform code to assign it. WHEN: "what role should I assign", "least privilege role", "RBAC role for", "role for managed identity",…
Guidance for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights. Provides telemetry patterns, SDK setup, and configuration references. WHEN: how to instrument app, App Insights SDK, telemetry patterns, what is App Insights, Application Insights guidance,…
Use for Azure AI: Search, Speech, OpenAI, Document Intelligence. Helps with search, vector/hybrid search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcription, OCR. WHEN: AI Search, query search, vector search, hybrid search, semantic search, speech-to-text,…
Configure Azure API Management as an AI Gateway for AI models, MCP tools, and agents. WHEN: semantic caching, token limit, content safety, load balancing, AI model governance, MCP rate limiting, jailbreak detection, add Azure OpenAI backend, add AI Foundry…
ROUTING SKILL — delegates to specialized diagram skills. USE FOR: any diagram request when the caller does not know which tool to use. Routes to drawio, python-diagrams, or mermaid based on diagram type.
Build and deploy GitHub Copilot SDK apps to Azure. WHEN: build copilot app, create copilot app, copilot SDK, @github/copilot-sdk, scaffold copilot project, copilot-powered app, deploy copilot app, host on azure, azure model, BYOM, bring your own model, use my…
Troubleshoot and resolve issues with Azure Messaging SDKs for Event Hubs and Service Bus. Covers connection failures, authentication errors, message processing issues, and SDK configuration problems. WHEN: event hub SDK error, service bus SDK issue, messaging…