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Expert knowledge for Azure Advisor development including best practices, decision making, limits & quotas, security, configuration, and integrations & coding patterns. Use when configuring Advisor alerts/digests, managing rec states, using workbooks, Resource…

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…

Expert knowledge for Azure Anyscale On Azure development including limits & quotas, security, configuration, and deployment. Use when authoring ARM templates, hardening images, configuring Private Link, or checking Anyscale regional availability, and other…

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 configuring…

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 running Azure…

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…

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 using Arc-enabled…

Expert guidance for designing Azure solutions using Azure Architecture. Covers reference architectures, solution ideas, design patterns, technology choices, architecture styles, best practices, anti-patterns, example workloads, and migration guides. Use when…

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.

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.

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.

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

Route gh-aw design, creation, diagnosis, patching, active debugging, and upgrade requests to the right strategies.

How to run an engineering review of an Azure Architecture Center article when a human explicitly requests it. USE when an "engineering review" is requested of an article, or when asked to review, evaluate, assess, or check the completeness/quality of an…

How GitHub Copilot runs its automated pull request review of an Azure Architecture Center article. USE only as part of GitHub Copilot's agentic PR review process. DO NOT USE for human-requested interactive reviews (use pnp-engineering-review instead)

How to write a text-equivalent long description (alt text) for a complex image, such as an Azure architecture diagram, decision tree, process flow, or detailed screenshot. USE when generating, reviewing, or improving the alternative text for a complex image…

How to delete an Azure Architecture Center article from this repository so no reader hits a 404 and no dangling reference is left behind. USE when asked to delete, remove, retire, or take down an article. DO NOT USE for moving or renaming an article that…

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…

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…

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.

Use the Microsoft Learn CLI to retrieve current official Microsoft documentation and code samples when Microsoft Learn MCP tools are unavailable. Use for questions about Microsoft technologies, SDKs, APIs, configuration, limits, best practices, tutorials, or…

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…

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…