Microsoft Skills
Skills, MCP servers, custom agents, and Agents.md configurations from Microsoft for grounding coding agents. 2,269 GitHub stars and 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.
“Skills, MCP servers, custom agents, and Agents.md configurations from Microsoft for grounding coding agents. 2,269 stars and 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.”
INSTALL THIS SERVER
{
"mcpServers": {
"microsoft-skills": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@microsoft/skills-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"microsoft-skills": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@microsoft/skills-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"microsoft-skills": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@microsoft/skills-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"microsoft-skills": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@microsoft/skills-mcp"
]
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"microsoft-skills": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@microsoft/skills-mcp"
]
}
}
}
5 TOOLS AVAILABLE
OUR ASSESSMENT
- Microsoft official maintenance.
- 2,269 GitHub stars.
- 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.
- MIT license.
- Agents.md spec native support.
- Curated catalog beats ad-hoc skill aggregation.
- Catalog scope is Microsoft-curated; non-Microsoft skills require manual addition.
- invoke_skill side-effects depend on the underlying skill; agent prompt path needs review.
- Not all skills in the catalog are Microsoft-authored; quality varies.
No authentication for the catalog itself. Individual skill invocations may require domain-specific credentials (Azure, GitHub, Microsoft 365); review the skill definition before invoking in production.
Teams adopting Agents.md for project configuration; Microsoft-stack development where the agent should ground in Microsoft-curated skills; engineering orgs standardising on a curated skill catalog rather than ad-hoc MCP installs.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
ADOPTION METRICS
// Reading this2,269 stars on microsoft/skills. 100 commits on main in the last 30 days.
// Reading thisPairs with MCP Registry, MCP Inspector, MCP Apps, MCPHub, Context7, Claude Code MCP for the meta-tooling layer of dev-tools.
SOURCES & VERIFICATION
We don't take any single directory's word for it. Before scoring, we cross-reference 5 public MCP sources, install the server ourselves against the clients we cover, and record when we last re-verified.
The same server, 5 different lenses. We reconcile these signals into our editorial score, which is why our number sometimes diverges from a directory-aggregate star count.
| Source | Their rating | Their star count | Their downloads | Last synced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AutomationSwitch This page | 4.6editorial | 2,269 | — | MAY 9, 2026 |
| PulseMCP | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 9, 2026 |
| MCP.so | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 9, 2026 |
| Glama | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 9, 2026 |
| Smithery | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 9, 2026 |
| Official MCP Registry | — unrated | unavailable | unavailable | MAY 9, 2026 |
// Counts are directory-reported; we don't adjust them. Discrepancies usually come from different snapshot times or star-caching.
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