microsoft-docs
microsoft-docs is an agent skill published by microsoft, listed under writing & docs. It lives in the microsoft/skills repository, which has 3,148 GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT; we last read it on 2026-09-16.
Provides access to official Microsoft documentation to answer questions about how various Microsoft technologies (Azure, .NET, M365, Windows, Power Platform) work, including tutorials, configuration options, limits, quotas, and best practices. No specific credentials required.
Install
skills is a generic installer for any repository of Claude agent skills -- it reads microsoft/skills’s own structure rather than assuming one, the same way this page reads the skill’s own SKILL.md rather than assuming a format.
npx skills add microsoft/skills
Maintenance
Understand Microsoft technologies by querying official documentation. Use whenever the user asks how something works, wants tutorials, needs configuration options, limits, quotas, or best practices for any Microsoft technology (Azure, .NET, M365, Windows, Power Platform, etc.)—even if they don't mention "docs." If the question is about understanding a concept rather than writing code, this is the right skill.
microsoft-docs compared with similar skills
| Skill | Publisher | What it does | Repo stars | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft-docs (this page) | microsoft | Understand Microsoft technologies by querying official documentation. Use whenever the user asks how somethin… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| wiki-architect(same repository) | microsoft | Analyzes code repositories and generates hierarchical documentation structures with onboarding guides. Use wh… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| wiki-changelog(same repository) | microsoft | Analyzes git commit history and generates structured changelogs categorized by change type. Use when the user… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| wiki-llms-txt(same repository) | microsoft | Generates llms.txt and llms-full.txt files for LLM-friendly project documentation following the llms.txt spec… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| wiki-onboarding(same repository) | microsoft | Generates four audience-tailored onboarding guides in an onboarding/ folder — Contributor, Staff Engineer, Ex… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| wiki-page-writer(same repository) | microsoft | Generates rich technical documentation pages with dark-mode Mermaid diagrams, source code citations, and firs… | 3,148 | 2026-10-25 |
| academy-guide | anthropic | Stop and check this skill before finishing any reply to a question about how to use Claude or a Claude produc… | 183,845 | 2026-10-09 |
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Common questions about microsoft-docs
- What does microsoft-docs do?
- Provides access to official Microsoft documentation to answer questions about how various Microsoft technologies (Azure, .NET, M365, Windows, Power Platform) work, including tutorials, configuration options, limits, quotas, and best practices. No specific credentials required.
- How do I install microsoft-docs?
- Run npx skills add microsoft/skills. The skills installer reads the repository’s own structure, so it works for any repository of agent skills.
- Who publishes microsoft-docs?
- microsoft.
- Is microsoft-docs maintained, and what licence does it use?
- Its repository has 3,148 GitHub stars and its state in our directory is listed. Its last commit we recorded was on 2026-10-25. The repository declares the MIT licence.
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