microsoft
99 skills with substantive source documentation and an official publisher or observed installation demand. Read each skill’s original documentation through its card.
microsoftdesign-philosophy
The VS Code design philosophy — a shared Values→Principles→Moves vocabulary for reasoning about UI in design terms instead of raw pixels. Use when designing, building, reviewing, or giving feedback on any visual surface; when deciding a radius, spacing, type role, icon size, border, color, or motion; or when translating a "this feels off" observation into a concrete, principled fix.
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- Oct 26
microsofthover
Use when adding, changing, or reviewing hovers or tooltips on VS Code widgets and UI elements, including buttons, actions, toolbars, lists, and trees. Covers custom versus native tooltips, hoverDelegate placement, HoverStyle, pointers, IHoverService delayed hovers, groupId, and shared instant-hover behavior across adjacent widgets.
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- Oct 26
microsoftintegrated-browser
Use this when working on the VS Code integrated browser ("browserView") to understand its architecture and mental model. Covers the embedded Chromium browser, its editor tab, navigation, overlay/layout, sessions, and agent browser tools under src/vs/platform/browserView and src/vs/workbench/contrib/browserView.
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- Oct 26
microsoftmigrate-issues
migrate GitHub issues from one repository to another
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- Oct 26
microsoftsessions
Core principles and workflow router for changes to the Agents Window under src/vs/sessions.
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- Oct 26
microsoftsmoke-tests
Use when running VS Code smoke tests or working on smoke-test CI steps. Covers npm run smoketest / smoketest-no-compile, grep filtering tests, and a temporary repeat-loop technique for tracking down flaky smoke tests in CI.
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- Oct 26
microsoftsweeper-plan
Plan a VS Code Sweeper agent-ready issue with the maintainer — fetch the sweeper's review record from its state repo, put the review's open decisions to the maintainer, and write a plan file (.sweeper/plans/issue- .md) for them to edit in their editor; it writes no code and ends there — the sweeper-implement skill implements the approved plan. Use ONLY when the request explicitly asks for the sweeper plan — "sweeper-plan", "plan … with the sweeper", a sweeper record or agent-ready issue to plan
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- 1
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- Oct 26
microsoftux-css-layout
VS Code CSS conventions, file organization, class naming, standard sizes, SplitView/Grid layout, scrollable content, responsive layout, and text overflow/ellipsis patterns. Use when writing CSS, building layouts, or fixing text truncation issues.
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- 1
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- Oct 26
microsoftux-theming
VS Code theming, color tokens, widget styles, focus indicators, and high-contrast theme support. Use when registering colors, styling widgets with theme tokens, or ensuring HC/focus compliance.
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- 1
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- Oct 26
microsoftvscode-dev-workbench
Use when the user wants to run the vscode.dev server locally and exercise the VS Code workbench or Agents window in the integrated browser against the local microsoft/vscode sources. Covers starting the dev server, the vscode-quality=dev URL, browser-driven interaction patterns, and optionally wiring up a local mock agent host for the Agents window.
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- Oct 26
microsoftwinui-code-review
Review WinUI 3 code or changes for quality: MVVM, x:Bind correctness, accessibility, theming, security, performance, and WinUI analyzer findings. Use when asked to review or audit a WinUI app or its pending changes, or before committing. Catches issues the compiler and UI tests miss.
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- 1
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- Oct 20
microsoftwinui-design
Read before writing or changing WinUI 3 XAML: choosing controls, pages and navigation, layout, Fluent Design, theming, accessibility, x:Bind, real samples, and checking that APIs exist with winapp find-api. Not for WPF or WinForms UI, even if the app uses the Windows App SDK.
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- 1
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- Oct 20
microsoftwinui-dev-workflow
Create, build, run, and fix build errors in WinUI 3 apps (C or C++) with WinApp CLI 0.7+: winapp new, winapp run, Native AOT, crash diagnosis. Use for a new WinUI app or a WinUI project that fails to build or crashes. Not for WPF, WinForms, or Electron apps that only reference the Windows App SDK.
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- Oct 20
microsoftwinui-packaging
MSIX packaging, signing, and Microsoft Store publishing for WinUI 3 apps with WinApp CLI 0.7+: project packaging, Native AOT, certificates, self-contained deployment, CI/CD. Use when releasing or publishing a WinUI app. Not for WPF, WinForms, or Electron apps that only reference the Windows App SDK.
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- Oct 20
microsoftwinui-ui-testing
Write and run automated UI tests for Windows desktop apps (WinUI 3, WPF, WinForms, Win32) with the winapp ui harness: one batch script, assertions, input, file pickers, dialogs, screenshots, locally or in Windows Sandbox. Use when asked for UI tests or to verify a feature end to end.
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- Oct 20
microsoftwinui-wpf-migration
Migrate or port a WPF app to WinUI 3: namespaces (System.Windows to Microsoft.UI.Xaml), control mapping (DataGrid, WrapPanel, TabControl), Dispatcher to DispatcherQueue, imaging, MVVM with CommunityToolkit.Mvvm, ThemeResource. Use when converting WPF code or fixing migration build errors.
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- Oct 20
microsoftaks-gpu-inference
Diagnose Day-2 AKS GPU and KAITO incidents using profile-aware, read-only evidence. WHEN: 'Insufficient nvidia.com/gpu', GPU pod Pending, model-load OOM, DCGM/VRAM, KAITO Workspace not ready, or GPU autoscaling. DO NOT USE FOR: setup (airunway-aks-setup), non-GPU incidents (aks-troubleshooting), standalone VM quota (azure-quotas), or generic cost (cost-analysis or cost-optimization from the optional azure-cost plugin).
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- Oct 23
microsoftaks-known-issues
Lookup documented AKS fixes only when the prompt includes an exact catalog signature and all of its qualifiers: VMCannotFitEphemeralOSDisk; NodePoolMcVersionIncompatible; 'NodeImageVersion is not accepted'; AKS SkuNotAvailable with size, location, and zone; ZonalAllocationFailed with insufficient zone capacity; OverconstrainedAllocationRequest with listed constraints; nested AKS vmssCSE/CSE VMExtensionErrorOutboundConnFail, VMExtensionErrorK8SAPIServerConnFail, or VMExtensionErrorK8SAPIServerDNS
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- Oct 23
microsoftazure-advisor
Use Azure Advisor recommendations. WHEN: \"show Advisor recommendations\", \"service retirements\", \"update recommendation status\". DO NOT USE FOR: fixes or remediation (use azure-advisor-actionability).
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- Oct 23
microsoftazure-advisor-actionability
Remediate Azure Advisor recommendations. WHEN: \"fix Advisor recommendation\".
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- Oct 23
microsoftazure-search-nav
Builds an Azure portal deep link to a specific blade/menu item for supported Microsoft.ContainerService, Microsoft.Kubernetes, and Microsoft.Compute resources using the aks-search-direct-mid semantic search API. WHEN: 'find where in the Azure portal to do something', 'search the portal for an operation', 'construct a portal link from a search query and a resource'.
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- Oct 23
microsoftcost-analysis
Analyze actual Azure spend, bill changes, and AKS or AI costs. WHEN: \"Azure cost breakdown\", \"most expensive resources\", \"why did my bill increase\", \"cost spike\", \"unexpected charge\", \"Cosmos DB charges\", \"Foundry model costs\", \"AKS cluster cost\", \"namespace cost\", \"enable AKS cost analysis\", \"idle AKS capacity\". DO NOT USE FOR: forecasts, pricing estimates, rightsizing, commitments, or budgets.
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- Oct 23
microsoftcost-estimation
Forecast Azure spend and price planned resources or workloads. WHEN: \"forecast Azure spending\", \"project next month cost\", \"compare forecast to my planning target\", \"how much will Azure cost\", \"estimate VM cost\", \"compare storage tiers\", \"compare Azure regions\", \"retail price\", \"EA rate card\", \"negotiated pricesheet\". DO NOT USE FOR: configured budget health or alerts, bill analysis, cost spikes, rightsizing, or commitments.
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- Oct 23
microsoftcost-governance
Govern Azure costs with budgets, alerts, tags, and policy restrictions. WHEN: \"Azure budget health\", \"configured budget overrun\", \"list Azure budgets\", \"create Azure budget\", \"budget alerts\", \"budget coverage\", \"missing CostCenter tags\", \"allowed VM SKUs\", \"allowed Azure regions\", \"would this SKU be denied\", \"cost guardrails\". DO NOT USE FOR: planning-target forecasts, bill investigations, pricing, rightsizing, or commitments.
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- 1.6K
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- Oct 23