Skill Authoring

If you're writing skills for the agentskills.io spec, this walks you through the constraints: frontmatter rules, token budgets (SKILL.md under 500 tokens soft limit, references under 1000 each), and progressive disclosure patterns. It's clear about the gotchas, like linking to specific reference files instead of folders, and the fact that references only load when explicitly linked. Includes validation scripts for checking broken links and token counts. The guidance is crisp and example-driven, which matters when you're trying to figure out whether to use WHEN triggers or how to structure multi-option skills with the recipes pattern. Authored by Microsoft, so it reflects real production constraints.

Install to Claude Code

npx -y skills add microsoft/github-copilot-for-azure --skill skill-authoring --agent claude-code