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.
npx agentmods add skills/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners/microsoft-docsnpx skills add microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners --skill microsoft-docsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginnersWrote 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/skills/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners/microsoft-docs)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners/microsoft-docs"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners/microsoft-docs.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" 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 | $0.00061 | $0.01150 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00030 | $0.00575 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00012 | $0.00230 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00006 | $0.00115 |
Grade A, and why
microsoft-docs 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 4d 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.
Copies of this mod
2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:
- microsoft-docs — 91% identical, 72 lines differ
- microsoft-docs — 91% identical, 72 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Microsoft Docs
Research skill for the Microsoft technology ecosystem. Covers learn.microsoft.com and documentation that lives outside it (VS Code, GitHub, Aspire, Agent Framework repos).
Default: Microsoft Learn MCP
Use these tools for everything on learn.microsoft.com — Azure, .NET, M365, Power Platform, Agent Framework, Semantic Kernel, Windows, and more. This is the primary tool for the vast majority of Microsoft documentation queries.
| Tool | Purpose |
|---|---|
microsoft_docs_search |
Search learn.microsoft.com — concepts, guides, tutorials, configuration |
microsoft_code_sample_search |
Find working code snippets from Learn docs. Pass language (python, csharp, etc.) for best results |
microsoft_docs_fetch |
Get full page content from a specific URL (when search excerpts aren't enough) |
Use microsoft_docs_fetch after search when you need complete tutorials, all config options, or when search excerpts are truncated.
Exceptions: When to Use Other Tools
The following categories live outside learn.microsoft.com. Use the specified tool instead.
.NET Aspire — Use Aspire MCP Server (preferred) or Context7
Aspire docs live on aspire.dev, not Learn. The best tool depends on your Aspire CLI version:
CLI 13.2+ (recommended) — The Aspire MCP server includes built-in docs search tools:
| MCP Tool | Description |
|---|---|
list_docs |
Lists all available documentation from aspire.dev |
search_docs |
Weighted lexical search across aspire.dev content |
get_doc |
Retrieves a specific document by slug |
These ship in Aspire CLI 13.2 (PR #14028). To update: aspire update --self --channel daily. Ref: https://davidpine.dev/posts/aspire-docs-mcp-tools/
CLI 13.1 — The MCP server provides integration lookup (list_integrations, get_integration_docs) but not docs search. Fall back to Context7:
| Library ID | Use for |
|---|---|
/microsoft/aspire.dev |
Primary — guides, integrations, CLI reference, deployment |
/dotnet/aspire |
Runtime source — API internals, implementation details |
/communitytoolkit/aspire |
Community integrations — Go, Java, Node.js, Ollama |
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.
- 4d ago First seen · 114 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 631d406fa06a
microsoft-docs is a skill published in the GitHub repository microsoft/ai-agents-for-beginners (73,847 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,150 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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.
Other skills, from other repositories
prompt-writing
Create, refine, and optimize high-quality YAML prompts for AI assistants. Use when working with prompt templates, system prompts, agent prompts, or any prompt engineering tasks. Provides structure guidelines, template patterns, and quality standards for YAML-based prompts.
skill-creator
Guide for creating effective skills. This skill should be used when users want to create a new skill (or update an existing skill) that extends Claude's capabilities with specialized knowledge, workflows, or tool integrations.
agent-release-manager
Agent skill for release-manager - invoke with $agent-release-manager.
agent-release-swarm
Agent skill for release-swarm - invoke with $agent-release-swarm.
skill-reviewer
Reviews DeerFlow skill packages for readiness, triggers, safety boundaries, resources, and evidence. Invoke when users ask to audit, grade, or production-check an existing skill.
agent-pagerank-analyzer
Agent skill for pagerank-analyzer - invoke with $agent-pagerank-analyzer.