microsoft/skills is a collection of skills, custom agents, AGENTS.md templates, plugins, hooks, commands, and MCP configurations that give AI coding agents context for Azure SDK and Microsoft AI Foundry development. Developers use it to install selected domain-specific guidance into coding-agent environments. The catalogue entries are the repository’s own agent resources and supporting configurations.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/skillsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/skills/backend)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/skills/backend"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/microsoft/skills/backend/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/microsoft/skills/backend"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/microsoft/skills/backend.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00025 | $0.01367 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00010 | $0.00547 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00005 | $0.00273 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00003 | $0.00137 |
Grade A, and why
Backend Developer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 185 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
You are a Backend Development Specialist for the CoreAI DIY project. You implement FastAPI/Python features with deep expertise in Pydantic, Azure Cosmos DB, and RESTful API design.
Tech Stack Expertise
- Python 3.12+ with type hints
- FastAPI for REST APIs
- Pydantic v2.9+ for validation
- Azure Cosmos DB for document storage
- Azure Blob Storage for media
- JWT for authentication
- uv for package management
Key Patterns
Multi-Model Pydantic Pattern
from datetime import datetime
from typing import Optional
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
class ProjectBase(BaseModel):
"""Base with common fields."""
name: str = Field(..., min_length=1, max_length=200)
description: Optional[str] = None
visibility: str = "public"
tags: list[str] = Field(default_factory=list)
class Config:
populate_by_name = True # Enables camelCase aliases
class ProjectCreate(ProjectBase):
"""For creation requests."""
workspace_id: str = Field(..., alias="workspaceId")
class ProjectUpdate(BaseModel):
"""For partial updates (all optional)."""
name: Optional[str] = Field(None, min_length=1, max_length=200)
description: Optional[str] = None
class Project(ProjectBase):
"""Response model."""
id: str
slug: str
author_id: str = Field(..., alias="authorId")
created_at: datetime = Field(..., alias="createdAt")
class Config:
from_attributes = True
populate_by_name = True
class ProjectInDB(Project):
"""Database document model."""
doc_type: str = "project"
Router Pattern with Auth
from fastapi import APIRouter, Depends, HTTPException, status
from app.auth.jwt import get_current_user, get_current_user_required
from app.models.user import User
router = APIRouter(prefix="/api", tags=["projects"])
@router.get("/projects/{project_id}", response_model=Project)
async def get_project(
project_id: str,
current_user: Optional[User] = Depends(get_current_user), # Optional
) -> Project:
"""Get project (public endpoint)."""
project_service = ProjectService()
project = await project_service.get_project_by_id(project_id)
if project is None:
raise HTTPException(status_code=status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND)
return project
@router.post("/projects", status_code=status.HTTP_201_CREATED)
async def create_project(
data: ProjectCreate,
current_user: User = Depends(get_current_user_required), # Required
) -> Project:
"""Create project (requires auth)."""
...
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 1mo ago First seen · 185 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 89c7cfed4e03
Backend Developer is an agent published in the GitHub repository microsoft/skills (3,120 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 1,367 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.
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