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microsoft/skills: Microsoft Ships an Official Skills + MCP + Custom-Agent Repo with 174 Skills for Coding Agents
Microsoft's official 'skills' repo (~2,500 stars) provides 174 domain-specific skills, pre-configured MCP servers, role-specific agent personas, and AGENTS.md templates to ground coding agents on Azure SDKs and Microsoft AI Foundry, spread across Python (39), .NET (28), TypeScript (25), Java (25), and Rust (7). Coming days after Google open-sourced its own agent-skills repo, this confirms a vendor land-grab to make GitHub-distributed Skills the standard grounding mechanism for coding agents. Found via Phase 2; significant because a major platform is now distributing first-party skills rather than leaving them to the community.
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