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Expert knowledge for Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when managing AKS Edge/Arc clusters, Arc onboarding, SDN VNets, TPM/IoT camera workloads, or offline deployments, and other Azure Kubernetes Service Edge Essentials related development tasks. Not for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (use azure-kubernetes-service), Azure IoT Edge (use azure-iot-edge), Azure Stack Edge (use azure-stack-edge), Azure Container Apps (use azure-container-apps).

Expert knowledge for Azure AI Anomaly Detector development including troubleshooting, best practices, limits & quotas, configuration, and deployment. Use when tuning Docker-based Anomaly Detector, ACI or IoT Edge deployments, univariate/multivariate APIs, or service limits, and other Azure AI Anomaly Detector related development tasks. Not for Azure AI Metrics Advisor (use azure-metrics-advisor), Azure Monitor (use azure-monitor), Azure Machine Learning (use azure-machine-learning).

Expert knowledge for Azure API Management development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when building APIM policies, securing APIs (JWT/OAuth/mTLS), integrating LLM/backends, or deploying self-hosted gateways, and other Azure API Management related development tasks. Not for Azure Application Gateway (use azure-application-gateway), Azure Front Door (use azure-front-door), Azure Web Application Firewall (use azure-web-application-firewall), Azure Service Bus (use azure-service-bus).

Expert knowledge for Azure App Configuration development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when using feature flags, dynamic config refresh, snapshots, Key Vault integration, or CI/CD exports/imports, and other Azure App Configuration related development tasks. Not for Azure App Service (use azure-app-service), Azure Functions (use azure-functions), Azure Key Vault (use azure-key-vault).

Expert knowledge for Azure App Service development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when choosing App Service plans, auth/networking, CI/CD deployments, custom containers, or ASE/VNet setups, and other Azure App Service related development tasks. Not for Azure Functions (use azure-functions), Azure Container Apps (use azure-container-apps), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (use azure-kubernetes-service), Azure Static Web Apps (use azure-static-web-apps).

Expert knowledge for Azure App Testing development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when using Azure Load Testing with VNets/private endpoints, JMeter/Locust, Playwright Workspaces, CI/CD, or quotas, and other Azure App Testing related development tasks. Not for Azure Test Plans (use azure-test-plans), Azure DevOps (use azure-devops), Azure Pipelines (use azure-pipelines), Azure App Service (use azure-app-service).

Expert knowledge for Azure Application Gateway development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when configuring HTTP routing, WAF/TLS, autoscale/zone redundancy, AKS ingress, or App Gateway for Containers, and other Azure Application Gateway related development tasks. Not for Azure Front Door (use azure-front-door), Azure Load Balancer (use azure-load-balancer), Azure Traffic Manager (use azure-traffic-manager), Azure Web Application Firewall (use azure-web-application-firewall).

Expert knowledge for Azure Arc development including troubleshooting, best practices, decision making, architecture & design patterns, limits & quotas, security, configuration, integrations & coding patterns, and deployment. Use when managing Arc-enabled Kubernetes, servers, SQL MI/data services, resource bridge, or Edge RAG workloads, and other Azure Arc related development tasks. Not for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) (use azure-kubernetes-service), Azure Stack Edge (use azure-stack-edge), Azure Local (use azure-local), Azure VMware Solution (use azure-vmware-solution).

How to adopt and integrate the Microsoft Azure cloud into your organization. Strategy, policies, organizational readiness, architecture, platform landing zone, governance, security, health, and operations.

Aggressively rewrites dense technical prose to maximize Flesch Reading Ease scores. Simplifies vocabulary, shortens sentences, splits paragraphs, and removes filler — without losing technical accuracy.

Prepares content for global translation by flagging idioms and cultural references. Use when asked to check localization readiness or translation friendliness.

Updates YAML frontmatter (ms.date, ms.service) after substantive content changes. Use when asked to update metadata or ms.date.

Reviews Azure content for security vulnerabilities and best practice gaps. Use when asked to perform a security review of documentation.

Ensures abbreviations are expanded on first use per Microsoft style. Use when asked to check acronyms or abbreviations in documentation.

Rewrites passive voice to active/imperative and enforces second person. Use when asked to fix passive voice or improve writing directness.

Ensures Azure REST API and CLI consistency across a document. Use when asked to check API calls, CLI parameters, or REST consistency.

Required when reviewing, updating, auditing, or creating any concept documentation page. Covers code accuracy checks against source repos, language parity across zone pivots, parity table comments, and structural consistency.

How to reference code from sample repos in Agent Framework docs pages using :::code directives, snippet tags, zone pivots, and highlight attributes.

How to configure cross-repository references (CRR) and create API class links for Microsoft Learn docs in this repository.

How breadcrumbs work on Microsoft Learn: structure, creation, configuration in docfx.json, and best practices for documentation repos.

How to delete, rename, or move articles on Microsoft Learn while preserving Platform IDs, preventing broken links, and managing redirects.

Conceptual organization of Agent Framework documentation and samples. For language-specific details (file naming, provider setup, code patterns), see each code repo's skills files.

How to create, structure, and configure table of contents (TOC) files for Microsoft Learn documentation using toc.yml and docfx.json.

Audit a Data API builder documentation file for Microsoft Learn compliance, style, accuracy, and information architecture. Checks frontmatter, links, images, code fences, alerts, tabs, voice, and peer consistency.

Author, revise, audit, or review Copilot prompt sections in Data API builder documentation. Use when adding "Use GitHub Copilot" prompts, DAB CLI, .NET Aspire, Docker Compose, MCP Inspector, SQL Commander, secrets, finish-first behavior, cost-first Azure defaults, validation, and Microsoft Learn style.

Rename, move, or delete documentation files in the Data API builder docs repo. Handles all side effects: redirects, TOC, index.yml, media, includes, and cross-references.

Add a new documentation file to the Data API builder docs repo. Handles all integration points: YAML frontmatter, TOC, index.yml landing pages, media folders, cross-references, and peer-doc consistency.

Draft, revise, or review a Data API builder whats-new page. Use for release notes, version announcements, preview releases, GA releases, or release summaries.

End-to-end autopilot: inventory, generate, and submit WDK DDI API reference docs from a CSV file with no user interaction. Use when: running the full doc pipeline unattended, auto-generating and submitting DDI docs.

Generate WDK DDI API reference documentation pages from source code and stubs. Use when: writing API docs, generating reference pages, documenting a header, creating DDI documentation.

Submit generated WDK DDI API reference documentation as a PR to the wdk-ddi repo. Use when: submitting docs, creating a PR for DDI docs, pushing documentation changes.

Inventory and classify APIs listed in a pre-provided CSV for a WDK header file. Use when: inventorying a header, classifying APIs, validating a CSV for doc generation, checking what needs to be documented.

How to run a engineering review of an Azure Architecture Center article. USE when an "engineering review" is requested of an article, or when asked to review, evaluate, assess, or check the completeness/quality of an article. GitHub Copilot should use this as part of its agentic PR review process for pull requests that appear to be freshness passes. DO NOT USE for ai assisted authoring, for pure link checking alone, or for drafting new content from scratch.

How to use the Microsoft Learn MCP server to ground answers, recommendations, or content edits. USE when the data on a Learn page will inform something you are about to claim, recommend, write, or edit. DO NOT USE for tactical work where guidance is not the point.

Find working code samples, verify API signatures, and fix Microsoft SDK errors using official docs. Use whenever the user is writing, debugging, or reviewing code that touches any Microsoft SDK, .NET library, Azure client library, or Microsoft API—even if they don't ask for a "reference." Catches hallucinated methods, wrong signatures, and deprecated patterns. If the task involves producing or fixing Microsoft-related code, this is the right skill.

Create agent skills for Microsoft technologies using official documentation. Use whenever the user wants to build, generate, or scaffold a skill for any Microsoft technology (Azure, .NET, M365, VS Code, Bicep, etc.)—even phrased casually like "make a skill for Cosmos DB." Investigates the topic via official docs, then generates a hybrid skill with essential knowledge stored locally and dynamic lookups for depth.