Skills, MCP servers, Custom Agents, Agents.md for SDKs to ground Coding Agents
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- Agent Framework Azure Ai PyMicrosoftOfficialBuild Azure AI Foundry agents using the Microsoft Agent Framework Python SDK (agent-framework-azure-ai). Use when creating persistent agents with AzureAIAgentsProvider, using hosted tools (code interpreter, file search, web search), integrating MCP servers, managing conversation threads, or implementing streaming responses. Covers function tools, structured outputs, and multi-tool agents.
- Applicationinsights Web TsMicrosoftOfficialInstrument browser/web apps with the Application Insights JavaScript SDK (@microsoft/applicationinsights-web). Use for Real User Monitoring (RUM) — page views, clicks, AJAX/fetch dependencies, exceptions, custom events, and browser-side GenAI agent traces correlated to backend OpenTelemetry traces.
- Azure Ai Agents Persistent DotnetMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Agents Persistent SDK for .NET. Low-level SDK for creating and managing AI agents with threads, messages, runs, and tools. Use for agent CRUD, conversation threads, streaming responses, function calling, file search, and code interpreter. Triggers: "PersistentAgentsClient", "persistent agents", "agent threads", "agent runs", "streaming agents", "function calling agents .NET".
- Azure Ai Agents Persistent JavaMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Agents Persistent SDK for Java. Low-level SDK for creating and managing AI agents with threads, messages, runs, and tools. Triggers: "PersistentAgentsClient", "persistent agents java", "agent threads java", "agent runs java", "streaming agents java".
- Azure Ai Anomalydetector JavaMicrosoftOfficialBuild anomaly detection applications with Azure AI Anomaly Detector SDK for Java. Use when implementing univariate/multivariate anomaly detection, time-series analysis, or AI-powered monitoring.
- Azure Ai Contentsafety JavaMicrosoftOfficialBuild content moderation applications with Azure AI Content Safety SDK for Java. Use when implementing text/image analysis, blocklist management, or harm detection for hate, violence, sexual content, and self-harm.
- Azure Ai Contentsafety PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Content Safety SDK for Python. Use for detecting harmful content in text and images with multi-severity classification. Triggers: "azure-ai-contentsafety", "ContentSafetyClient", "content moderation", "harmful content", "text analysis", "image analysis".
- Azure Ai Contentsafety TsMicrosoftOfficialAnalyze text and images for harmful content using Azure AI Content Safety (@azure-rest/ai-content-safety). Use when moderating user-generated content, detecting hate speech, violence, sexual content, or self-harm, or managing custom blocklists.
- Azure Ai Contentunderstanding PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Content Understanding SDK for Python. Use for multimodal content extraction from documents, images, audio, and video. Triggers: "azure-ai-contentunderstanding", "ContentUnderstandingClient", "multimodal analysis", "document extraction", "video analysis", "audio transcription".
- Azure Ai Document Intelligence DotnetMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Document Intelligence SDK for .NET. Extract text, tables, and structured data from documents using prebuilt and custom models. Use for invoice processing, receipt extraction, ID document analysis, and custom document models. Triggers: "Document Intelligence", "DocumentIntelligenceClient", "form recognizer", "invoice extraction", "receipt OCR", "document analysis .NET".
- Azure Ai Document Intelligence TsMicrosoftOfficialExtract text, tables, and structured data from documents using Azure Document Intelligence (@azure-rest/ai-document-intelligence). Use when processing invoices, receipts, IDs, forms, or building custom document models.
- Azure Ai Formrecognizer JavaMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Document Intelligence SDK for Java (com.azure:azure-ai-documentintelligence). Use for extracting text, tables, key-value pairs from documents, receipts, invoices, IDs, or building custom document models.
- Azure Ai Language Conversations PyMicrosoftOfficialImplement Conversational Language Understanding (CLU) using the azure-ai-language-conversations Python SDK. Use when working with ConversationAnalysisClient to analyze conversation intent and entities, building NLP features, or integrating language understanding into applications.
- Azure Ai Ml PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure Machine Learning SDK v2 for Python. Use for ML workspaces, jobs, models, datasets, compute, and pipelines. Triggers: "azure-ai-ml", "MLClient", "workspace", "model registry", "training jobs", "datasets".
- Azure Ai Openai DotnetMicrosoftOfficialAzure OpenAI SDK for .NET. Client library for Azure OpenAI and OpenAI services. Use for chat completions, embeddings, image generation, audio transcription, and assistants. Triggers: "Azure OpenAI", "AzureOpenAIClient", "ChatClient", "chat completions .NET", "GPT-4", "embeddings", "DALL-E", "Whisper", "OpenAI .NET".
- Azure Ai Projects DotnetMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Projects SDK for .NET. High-level client for Azure AI Foundry projects including agents, connections, datasets, deployments, evaluations, and indexes. Use for AI Foundry project management, versioned agents, and orchestration. Triggers: "AI Projects", "AIProjectClient", "Foundry project", "versioned agents", "evaluations", "datasets", "connections", "deployments .NET".
- Azure Ai Projects JavaMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Projects SDK for Java. High-level SDK for Azure AI Foundry project management including connections, datasets, indexes, and evaluations. Triggers: "AIProjectClient java", "azure ai projects java", "Foundry project java", "ConnectionsClient", "DatasetsClient", "IndexesClient".
- Azure Ai Projects PyMicrosoftOfficialBuild AI applications using the Azure AI Projects Python SDK (azure-ai-projects). Use when working with Foundry project clients, creating versioned agents with PromptAgentDefinition, running evaluations, managing connections/deployments/datasets/indexes, or using OpenAI-compatible clients. This is the high-level Foundry SDK - for low-level agent operations, use azure-ai-agents-python skill.
- Azure Ai Projects TsMicrosoftOfficialBuild AI applications using Azure AI Projects SDK for JavaScript (@azure/ai-projects). Use when working with Foundry project clients, agents, connections, deployments, datasets, indexes, evaluations, or getting OpenAI clients.
- Azure Ai Textanalytics PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Text Analytics SDK for sentiment analysis, entity recognition, key phrases, language detection, PII, and healthcare NLP. Use for natural language processing on text. Triggers: "text analytics", "sentiment analysis", "entity recognition", "key phrase", "PII detection", "TextAnalyticsClient".
- Azure Ai Transcription PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Transcription SDK for Python. Use for real-time and batch speech-to-text transcription with timestamps and diarization. Triggers: "transcription", "speech to text", "Azure AI Transcription", "TranscriptionClient".
- Azure Ai Translation Document PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Document Translation SDK for batch translation of documents with format preservation. Use for translating Word, PDF, Excel, PowerPoint, and other document formats at scale. Triggers: "document translation", "batch translation", "translate documents", "DocumentTranslationClient".
- Azure Ai Translation Text PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Text Translation SDK for real-time text translation, transliteration, language detection, and dictionary lookup. Use for translating text content in applications. Triggers: "text translation", "translator", "translate text", "transliterate", "TextTranslationClient".
- Azure Ai Translation TsMicrosoftOfficialBuild translation applications using Azure Translation SDKs for JavaScript (@azure-rest/ai-translation-text, @azure-rest/ai-translation-document). Use when implementing text translation, transliteration, language detection, or batch document translation.
- Azure Ai Vision Imageanalysis JavaMicrosoftOfficialBuild image analysis applications with Azure AI Vision SDK for Java. Use when implementing image captioning, OCR text extraction, object detection, tagging, or smart cropping.
- Azure Ai Vision Imageanalysis PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Vision Image Analysis SDK for captions, tags, objects, OCR, people detection, and smart cropping. Use for computer vision and image understanding tasks. Triggers: "image analysis", "computer vision", "OCR", "object detection", "ImageAnalysisClient", "image caption".
- Azure Ai Voicelive DotnetMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Voice Live SDK for .NET. Build real-time voice AI applications with bidirectional WebSocket communication. Use for voice assistants, conversational AI, real-time speech-to-speech, and voice-enabled chatbots. Triggers: "voice live", "real-time voice", "VoiceLiveClient", "VoiceLiveSession", "voice assistant .NET", "bidirectional audio", "speech-to-speech".
- Azure Ai Voicelive JavaMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI VoiceLive SDK for Java. Real-time bidirectional voice conversations with AI assistants using WebSocket. Triggers: "VoiceLiveClient java", "voice assistant java", "real-time voice java", "audio streaming java", "voice activity detection java".
- Azure Ai Voicelive PyMicrosoftOfficialBuild real-time voice AI applications using Azure AI Voice Live SDK (azure-ai-voicelive). Use this skill when creating Python applications that need real-time bidirectional audio communication with Azure AI, including voice assistants, voice-enabled chatbots, real-time speech-to-speech translation, voice-driven avatars, or any WebSocket-based audio streaming with AI models.
- Azure Ai Voicelive TsMicrosoftOfficialAzure AI Voice Live SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript. Build real-time voice AI applications with bidirectional WebSocket communication. Use for voice assistants, conversational AI, real-time speech-to-speech, and voice-enabled chatbots in Node.js or browser environments.
- Azure Appconfiguration JavaMicrosoftOfficialAzure App Configuration SDK for Java. Centralized application configuration management with key-value settings, feature flags, and snapshots. Triggers: "ConfigurationClient java", "app configuration java", "feature flag java", "configuration setting java", "azure config java".
- Azure Appconfiguration PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure App Configuration SDK for Python. Use for centralized configuration management, feature flags, and dynamic settings. Triggers: "azure-appconfiguration", "AzureAppConfigurationClient", "feature flags", "configuration", "key-value settings".
- Azure Appconfiguration TsMicrosoftOfficialBuild applications using Azure App Configuration SDK for JavaScript (@azure/app-configuration). Use when working with configuration settings, feature flags, Key Vault references, dynamic refresh, or centralized configuration management.
- Azure Communication Callautomation JavaMicrosoftOfficialBuild call automation workflows with Azure Communication Services Call Automation Java SDK. Use when implementing IVR systems, call routing, call recording, DTMF recognition, text-to-speech, or AI-powered call flows.
- Azure Communication Callingserver JavaMicrosoftOfficialAzure Communication Services CallingServer (legacy) Java SDK. Note - This SDK is deprecated. Use azure-communication-callautomation instead for new projects. Only use this skill when maintaining legacy code.
- Azure Communication Chat JavaMicrosoftOfficialBuild real-time chat applications with Azure Communication Services Chat Java SDK. Use when implementing chat threads, messaging, participants, read receipts, typing notifications, or real-time chat features.
- Azure Communication Common JavaMicrosoftOfficialAzure Communication Services common utilities for Java. Use when working with CommunicationTokenCredential, user identifiers, token refresh, or shared authentication across ACS services.
- Azure Communication Sms JavaMicrosoftOfficialSend SMS messages with Azure Communication Services SMS Java SDK. Use when implementing SMS notifications, alerts, OTP delivery, bulk messaging, or delivery reports.
- Azure Compute Batch JavaMicrosoftOfficialAzure Batch SDK for Java. Run large-scale parallel and HPC batch jobs with pools, jobs, tasks, and compute nodes. Triggers: "BatchClient java", "azure batch java", "batch pool java", "batch job java", "HPC java", "parallel computing java".
- Azure Containerregistry PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure Container Registry SDK for Python. Use for managing container images, artifacts, and repositories. Triggers: "azure-containerregistry", "ContainerRegistryClient", "container images", "docker registry", "ACR".
- Azure Cosmos Db PyMicrosoftOfficialBuild Azure Cosmos DB NoSQL services with Python/FastAPI following production-grade patterns. Use when implementing database client setup with dual auth (DefaultAzureCredential + emulator), service layer classes with CRUD operations, partition key strategies, parameterized queries, or TDD patterns for Cosmos.
- Azure Cosmos JavaMicrosoftOfficialAzure Cosmos DB SDK for Java. NoSQL database operations with global distribution, multi-model support, and reactive patterns. Triggers: "CosmosClient java", "CosmosAsyncClient", "cosmos database java", "cosmosdb java", "document database java".
- Azure Cosmos PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure Cosmos DB SDK for Python (NoSQL API). Use for document CRUD, queries, containers, and globally distributed data. Triggers: "cosmos db", "CosmosClient", "container", "document", "NoSQL", "partition key".
- Azure Cosmos RustMicrosoftOfficialAzure Cosmos DB library for Rust (NoSQL API). Document CRUD, containers, and globally distributed data. Triggers: "cosmos db rust", "CosmosClient rust", "document crud rust", "NoSQL rust", "partition key rust".
- Azure Cosmos TsMicrosoftOfficialAzure Cosmos DB JavaScript/TypeScript SDK (@azure/cosmos) for data plane operations. Use for CRUD operations on documents, queries, bulk operations, and container management. Triggers: "Cosmos DB", "@azure/cosmos", "CosmosClient", "document CRUD", "NoSQL queries", "bulk operations", "partition key", "container.items".
- Azure Data Tables JavaMicrosoftOfficialBuild table storage applications with Azure Tables SDK for Java. Use when working with Azure Table Storage or Cosmos DB Table API for NoSQL key-value data, schemaless storage, or structured data at scale.
- Azure Data Tables PyMicrosoftOfficialAzure Tables SDK for Python (Storage and Cosmos DB). Use for NoSQL key-value storage, entity CRUD, and batch operations. Triggers: "table storage", "TableServiceClient", "TableClient", "entities", "PartitionKey", "RowKey".
- Azure Eventgrid DotnetMicrosoftOfficialAzure Event Grid SDK for .NET. Client library for publishing and consuming events with Azure Event Grid. Use for event-driven architectures, pub/sub messaging, CloudEvents, and EventGridEvents. Triggers: "Event Grid", "EventGridPublisherClient", "CloudEvent", "EventGridEvent", "publish events .NET", "event-driven", "pub/sub".