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/practicalswan/agent-skills/microsoft-developmentnpx skills add PracticalSwan/agent-skills --skill microsoft-developmentgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PracticalSwan/agent-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/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/microsoft-development)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/microsoft-development"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/practicalswan/agent-skills/microsoft-development.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 5.1 | $0.00044 | $0.01422 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.00711 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00284 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00142 |
Grade A, and why
microsoft-development 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 today.
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 — 144 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Microsoft Development
Optimized for current Microsoft Graph, Entra ID, PowerShell 7.x, and Microsoft 365 integration workflows.
Use this skill when the answer should come from Microsoft documentation rather than memory or third-party summaries.
- Leverage native parallel subagent dispatch and 200k+ context windows where available.
Current MCP Reality
Microsoft's Learn Docs MCP server is publicly documented and currently exposes these core tools:
microsoft_docs_searchmicrosoft_docs_fetchmicrosoft_docs_extract_code_examplesmicrosoft_docs_search_by_product
Microsoft's getting-started docs also describe installation through npx -y @microsoft/learn-docs-mcp.
Activation Conditions
Use symptom -> action triggers: when one matches, apply this skill and verify with the protocol below.
- Verifying Azure SDK usage, limits, or configuration
- Looking up .NET, Graph, Windows, or Microsoft 365 APIs
- Pulling official code examples before implementation
- Checking product-specific guidance for Azure, Power BI, or Power Platform
Recommended Workflow
- Search first with
microsoft_docs_search. - Narrow by product with
microsoft_docs_search_by_productwhen results are broad. - Fetch the relevant page with
microsoft_docs_fetchfor details. - Extract code examples with
microsoft_docs_extract_code_examplesif the user needs working snippets. - Prefer official code and limits over recollection.
Query Patterns
"Azure Container Apps scale rules""BlobClient UploadAsync Azure.Storage.Blobs"product="power-bi" query="row level security dax"product="microsoft-graph" query="send mail application permissions"
Guardrails
- Use Microsoft Learn MCP for Microsoft-specific answers before browsing elsewhere.
- Treat package versions, quotas, and service capabilities as time-sensitive.
- If Learn MCP is unavailable in the current client, use the included scripts and references as local fallbacks, then browse official docs.
What ships with it
7 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
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.
- today Changed 89cd2f361b14
- 2d ago First seen · 144 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 9f0b6308d0fe
microsoft-development is a skill published in the GitHub repository PracticalSwan/agent-skills (13 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,422 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.
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