Agent skills by microsoft

Update the committed blocks-ci screenshot hashes after the "Screenshots & Tests" check fails, or investigate a screenshot diff reported on a PR. Use when asked to update, accept, or refresh component screenshot…

Audit code for memory leaks and disposable issues. Use when reviewing event listeners, DOM handlers, lifecycle callbacks, or fixing leak reports. Covers addDisposableListener, Event.once, MutableDisposable,…

Core principles and workflow router for changes to the Agents Window under src/vs/sessions.

Use when validating Azure DevOps pipeline changes for the VS Code build. Covers queueing builds, checking build status, viewing logs, and iterating on pipeline YAML changes without waiting for full CI runs.

Identify all files a specific author contributed to on a branch vs its upstream, tracing code through renames. Use when asked who edited what, what code an author contributed, or to audit authorship before a merge. This…

Primary accessibility skill for VS Code. REQUIRED for new feature and contribution work, and also applies to updates of existing UI. Covers accessibility help dialogs, accessible views, verbosity settings, signals, ARIA…

DevOps workflows for Playwright - CI failure analysis, workflow debugging, and release operations.

Explains how to develop Playwright - add APIs, MCP tools, CLI commands, and vendor dependencies.

Automate browser interactions, test web pages and work with Playwright tests.

Development workflows for the playwright-cli repository. Use when the user asks about rolling dependencies, releasing, or other repo maintenance tasks.

Agent Package Manager

Activate for changes to project positioning, release communication, community-facing artifacts, or breaking-change decisions in microsoft/apm. Triggers on README, MANIFESTO, PRD, CHANGELOG, release workflows, and issue…

Agent Package Manager

Activate when the user asks about APM (Agent Package Manager): installing, configuring, authoring, or troubleshooting AI-agent packages, dependencies, compilation, MCP servers, policy, or any `apm` CLI command.

Activate when code touches token management, credential resolution, git auth flows, GITHUB_APM_PAT, ADO_APM_PAT, AuthResolver, HostInfo, AuthContext, or any remote host authentication -- even if 'auth' isn't mentioned…

Agent Package Manager

Use this skill when editing or creating CLI output, logging, warnings, error messages, progress indicators, or diagnostic summaries in the APM codebase. Activate whenever code touches console helpers (_rich_success,…

Activate when designing or modifying CLI command surfaces, command help text, install/init/run flows, error wording, or first-run experience in the APM CLI -- even when the user does not say "UX" explicitly.

Use this skill when the docs-impact-classifier returns a structural verdict, signalling that the documentation TOC must change to accommodate the PR. Proposes TOC deltas (new pages, moves, merges) and emits new-page…

Use this skill to classify the documentation impact of a pull request diff, returning one of three verdicts -- no-change, in-place edit, or structural change -- with bounded LLM cost. Activate as a sibling skill of…

Use this skill to translate a classifier's in-place verdict into a precise, page-by-page work plan for the docs-sync panel. Activate after docs-impact-classifier returns verdict in_place; reads the candidate page list,…

Use this skill whenever a pull request is opened, reopened, or synchronized in microsoft/apm to assess whether and how the documentation corpus must change to stay truthful with the proposed code change. Activate even…

An example skill from the mock plugin

Agent Package Manager