Guidelines for writing Agent Skills that comply with the agentskills.io specification. WHEN: "create a skill", "new skill", "write a skill", "skill template", "skill structure", "review skill", "skill PR", "skill compliance", "SKILL.md format", "skill frontmatter", "skill best practices".
Install
npx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill skill-authoringnpx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill skill-authoring -a claude-code -gnpx skills add microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure --skill skill-authoring -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure.git --path .github/skills/skill-authoringgh skill install microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure skill-authoringgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure /tmp/microsoft__GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/microsoft__GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure/.github/skills/skill-authoring ~/.claude/skills/skill-authoring # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/microsoft__GitHub-Copilot-for-Azure/.github/skills/skill-authoring ~/.agents/skills/skill-authoring # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode