Create and manage code signing certificates for Windows apps and MSIX packages. Use when generating a certificate, signing a Windows app or installer, or fixing certificate trust issues.

Framework-specific Windows development guidance for Electron, .NET (WPF, WinForms), C++, Rust, Flutter, and Tauri. Use when packaging or adding Windows features to an Electron app, .NET desktop app, Flutter app, Tauri app, Rust app, or C++ app.

Guide for creating effective GitHub Copilot skills (.github/skills/) in this repository. Use when creating a new skill, updating an existing skill, or when asked about skill structure, format, or best practices for the vscode-documentdb project.

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Write, build, and run C tests for the VoxelPic library. USE FOR: adding new C test cases, understanding the test data format, debugging test failures, or running the existing C test suite.

Build, test, and validate changes in the vstest repository. Use when building vstest projects, running unit tests, smoke tests, or acceptance tests, or when deploying locally built vstest.console for manual testing.

Run smoke tests to verify extension functionality in a real VS Code environment. Use this when checking if basic features work after changes.

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**WORKFLOW SKILL** - Evaluate AI agent skills using structured benchmarks with YAML specs, fixture isolation, and pluggable validators. USE FOR: run waza, waza help, run eval, run benchmark, evaluate skill, test agent, generate eval suite, init eval, compare results, score agent, agent evaluation, skill testing, cross-model comparison. DO NOT USE FOR: improving skill frontmatter (use waza dev), creating new skills from scratch (use skill-creator), token counting or budget checks (use waza tokens). INVOKES: Copilot SDK executor, mock engine, code/regex validators. FOR SINGLE OPERATIONS: use waza run directly for a single benchmark.

Multi-model council planning for implementation and architecture decisions. Use when the user asks to 'plan with council', 'multi-model plan', 'get different perspectives on approach', 'council plan', or wants multiple models to independently propose plans for the same task. Also use when the user asks to 'debate approaches', 'compare strategies', or 'cross-plan'.

Guide for creating AL tests for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Use this when asked to write, create, or generate AL test codeunits, test procedures, or test automation for Business Central.

'Manage GitLab merge requests and pipelines with a Python CLI - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core'

Enable Windows package identity for desktop apps to access Windows APIs like push notifications, background tasks, share target, and startup tasks. Use when adding Windows notifications, background tasks, or other identity-requiring Windows features to a desktop app.

Validate a container image change via backdoor deployment. Use when: deploying test image to a cluster, comparing data volume between deployments, comparing resource consumption, backdoor deploy, validate container image, image regression testing, build and deploy branch.

Use when creating or updating component fixtures for screenshot testing, or when designing UI components to be fixture-friendly. Covers fixture file structure, theming, service setup, CSS scoping, async rendering, and common pitfalls.

Download screenshot baselines from the latest CI run and commit them. Use when asked to update, accept, or refresh component screenshot baselines from CI, or after the screenshot-test GitHub Action reports differences. This skill should be run as a subagent.

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Guide for diagnosing GitHub Actions test failures, extracting failed tests from runs, and creating or updating failing-test issues. Use this when asked to investigate GitHub Actions test failures, download failure logs, create failing-test issues, or debug CI issues.

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Use when running unit tests in the VS Code repo. Covers the runTests tool, scripts/test.sh (macOS/Linux) and scripts/test.bat (Windows), and their supported arguments for filtering, globbing, and debugging tests.

Create a beachball change file for the current changes. Determines change type (patch/minor) and generates a description from the diff.

Use this skill for any Kusto query or telemetry investigation specifically related to Fluid Framework or its partners. Triggers include: writing or running a Kusto query against the Office Fluid database, investigating Fluid Framework telemetry or error rates, querying Office_Fluid_FluidRuntime_* tables, looking up a Fluid session by Session_Id or docId, investigating a Fluid-related error in Loop or Whiteboard telemetry, monitoring an FF bump or partner ring deployment, checking Fluid render reliability or Scriptor errors, or when the user mentions Fluid-specific tables (Office_Fluid_FluidRuntime_*, OwhLoads, HostTracker, Scriptor) or Fluid-specific error types (dataCorruptionError, dataProcessingError, DeltaConnectionFailureToConnect, ICE, ACE). Do NOT trigger for general Kusto questions that are not related to Fluid Framework.

Answers AI agent evaluation methodology questions with practical, opinionated guidance grounded primarily in Microsoft's agent evaluation ecosystem (MS Learn, Eval Scenario Library, Triage & Improvement Playbook, Eval Guidance Kit) supplemented by select industry sources.

Generate a daily analytics report of what GitHub Copilot helped accomplish. Shows tasks completed, human effort equivalent, token usage, and a narrative story. Sends a formatted email summary. Use when the user asks about their daily activity, what Copilot helped with today, or wants a digest of the day's work.

Sales reps often have meetings scheduled with little prep time. This skill rapidly synthesizes all available Dataverse information about an account into a concise, actionable meeting brief. In Quick P

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Format the codebase with pnpm and recover from common formatting failures.

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Investigate CI failures on OpenVMM PRs. Load when a PR has failing CI checks, you need to download and analyze test artifacts, or you need to diagnose build, fmt, clippy, or VMM test failures.

Set up a Windows app project for MSIX packaging, Windows SDK access, or Windows API usage. Use when adding Windows support to an Electron, .NET, C++, Rust, Flutter, or Tauri project, or restoring SDK packages after cloning.

Execute Appium BDD test scenarios and automatically generate Python step implementation files.

Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS Code version. Use when investigating chat rendering regressions, validating perf-sensitive changes to chat UI, or checking for memory leaks in the chat response pipeline.

Writes TypeSpec http-client-python generator mock API tests (azure/unbranded/shared) from a Spector case. Use when given a Spector case link or a PR link that modifies Spector cases under http-specs/azure-http-specs.

Run VMM tests locally with cargo xflowey vmm-tests-run. Load when running or debugging VMM tests, or when you need to understand the petri test framework, artifact handling, or cross-compilation for VMM tests.

Sync the current session branch with its upstream branch, or publish the current session branch to a remote. Use when the user asks to sync a branch, pull latest changes, rebase onto upstream, push current branch, publish branch, or set upstream.

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

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Domain patterns for ML/AI serving and training systems — model serving, feature stores, training pipelines, experiment tracking, A/B testing, GPU scheduling, and failure modes. Use when designing or evaluating machine learning infrastructure, model serving platforms, or AI-powered product features.

Fixes diagnostics reported by the Chat Customizations Evaluations extension on the active prompt file. Reads the current diagnostics from the editor and applies suggested improvements.

Add generative answer nodes (SearchAndSummarizeContent or AnswerQuestionWithAI) to a Copilot Studio topic. Use this instead of /add-node when the user asks to add grounded answers, knowledge search, generative answers, or AI-powered responses — these nodes require specific patterns (ConditionGroup follow-up, knowledge source references, autoSend, responseCaptureType) that /add-node does not cover.

Produces a concrete eval suite plan grounded in Microsoft's Eval Scenario Library and MS Learn agent evaluation guidance — scenario types, evaluation methods, quality signals, thresholds, and priority order — before any test cases are generated or evals are run.

Add child agents, connected agents, or other multi-agent patterns to a Copilot Studio agent. Use when the user asks to create a sub-agent, child agent, connected agent, or call another agent.

Generates a hands-on practice exercise for a specified GitHub Copilot feature.

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Send workflow bot messages to Microsoft Teams personal chat via an Azure Logic App HTTP trigger.

Merges the latest Library.Template into this repo (at position of HEAD) and resolves conflicts.

'Jira issue workflows for search, issue updates, transitions, comments, and field discovery via the Jira REST API. Use when you need to search with JQL, inspect an issue, create or update work items, move an issue between statuses, post comments, or discover required fields for issue creation. - Brought to you by microsoft/hve-core'

Launch and automate VS Code Insiders with the Copilot Chat extension using agent-browser via Chrome DevTools Protocol. Use when you need to interact with the VS Code UI, automate the chat panel, test the extension UI, or take screenshots. Triggers include 'automate VS Code', 'interact with chat', 'test the UI', 'take a screenshot', 'launch with debugging'.