Microsoft Foundry Skill: Reusable Guidance for Coding Agent Workflows
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junjieli
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Summary
The Microsoft Foundry Skill is a meta-skill for coding agents that provides reusable guidance for Foundry agent workflows. It helps standardize deployment, evaluation, prompt optimization, dataset curation from traces, and troubleshooting tasks across agent-enabled development environments. The skill assists coding agents in choosing the right Foundry workflow, loading matching sub-skills, inspecting available Foundry MCP tools, and maintaining consistent deployment and evaluation context across interactions. It includes specialized sub-skills for various areas and can be used with coding agents like GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, Copilot CLI, and Claude Code.
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The microsoft-foundry skill is a meta skill for Foundry work.
It helps a coding agent choose the right Foundry workflow, load the matching sub-skill, inspect available Foundry MCP tools, and keep deployment and evaluation context consistent across turns.
The installed skill includes specialized sub-skills for those areas.
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