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- wiki-researchermicrosoft/skillsConducts multi-turn iterative deep research on specific topics within a codebase with zero tolerance for shallow analysis. Use when the user wants an in-depth investigation, needs to understand how something works across multiple files, or asks for comprehensive analysis of a specific system or pattern.OfficialScienceNo warnings★ 3.1K↓ —
- cost-estimationmicrosoft/skillsForecast Azure spend and price planned resources or workloads. WHEN: "forecast Azure spending", "project next month cost", "compare forecast to my planning target", "how much will Azure cost", "estimate VM cost", "compare storage tiers", "compare Azure regions", "retail price", "EA rate card", "negotiated pricesheet". DO NOT USE FOR: configured budget health or alerts, bill analysis, cost spikes, rightsizing, or commitments.OfficialDevOpsNo warnings★ 3.1K↓ —Also in 1 other repo
- azure-aigatewaymicrosoft/skillsConfigure Azure API Management as an AI Gateway for AI models, MCP tools, and agents. WHEN: semantic caching, token limit, content safety, load balancing, AI model governance, MCP rate limiting, jailbreak detection, add Azure OpenAI backend, add AI Foundry model, test AI gateway, LLM policies, configure AI backend, token metrics, AI cost control, convert API to MCP, import OpenAPI to gateway.OfficialDevOpsNo warnings★ 3.1K↓ —Also in 2 other repos
- skillopt-sleepmicrosoft/SkillOptUse when the user wants Codex to self-improve from past usage, asks about a nightly/offline 'sleep' or 'dream' cycle, wants Codex to review past sessions, learn preferences, consolidate memory/skills, run dry-run/run/adopt/status for SkillOpt-Sleep, or schedule background self-optimization. Drives the skillopt_sleep engine: harvest past sessions -> mine recurring tasks -> replay through a selected backend -> consolidate validated memory + skills behind a held-out gate.EngineeringNo warnings★ 18.7K↓ —
- ara-compilerOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsCompiles any research input — PDF papers, GitHub repositories, experiment logs, code directories, or raw notes — into a complete Agent-Native Research Artifact (ARA) with cognitive layer (claims, concepts, heuristics), physical layer (configs, code stubs), exploration graph, and grounded evidence. Use when ingesting a paper or codebase into a structured, machine-executable knowledge package, building an ARA from scratch, or converting research outputs into a falsifiable, agent-traversable form.DocumentsNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- ara-research-managerOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsRecords research provenance as a post-task epilogue, scanning conversation history at the end of a coding or research session to extract decisions, experiments, dead ends, claims, heuristics, and pivots, and writing them into the ara/ directory with user-vs-AI provenance tags. Use as a session epilogue — never during execution — to maintain a faithful, auditable trace of how a research project actually evolved.ScienceNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- run-experimentwanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleepDeploy and run ML experiments on local or remote GPU servers. Use when user says "run experiment", "deploy to server", "跑实验", or needs to launch training jobs.DevOpsNo warnings★ 18.1K↓ —
- systems-paper-writingOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsComprehensive guide for writing systems papers targeting OSDI, SOSP, ASPLOS, NSDI, and EuroSys. Provides paragraph-level structural blueprints, writing patterns, venue-specific checklists, reviewer guidelines, LaTeX templates, and conference deadlines. Use this skill for all systems conference paper writing.ScienceNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- pytorch-lightningOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsHigh-level PyTorch framework with Trainer class, automatic distributed training (DDP/FSDP/DeepSpeed), callbacks system, and minimal boilerplate. Scales from laptop to supercomputer with same code. Use when you want clean training loops with built-in best practices.EngineeringNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- sparse-autoencoder-trainingOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsProvides guidance for training and analyzing Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) using SAELens to decompose neural network activations into interpretable features. Use when discovering interpretable features, analyzing superposition, or studying monosemantic representations in language models.OtherNo warnings★ 14K↓ —Also in 1 other repo
- speculative-decodingOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsAccelerate LLM inference using speculative decoding, Medusa multiple heads, and lookahead decoding techniques. Use when optimizing inference speed (1.5-3.6× speedup), reducing latency for real-time applications, or deploying models with limited compute. Covers draft models, tree-based attention, Jacobi iteration, parallel token generation, and production deployment strategies.PlanningNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- azure-search-documents-tsmicrosoft/skillsBuild search applications using Azure AI Search SDK for JavaScript (@azure/search-documents). Use when creating/managing indexes, implementing vector/hybrid search, semantic ranking, or building agentic retrieval with knowledge bases.OfficialDevOpsNo warnings★ 3.1K↓ —
- faissOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsFacebook's library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors. Supports billions of vectors, GPU acceleration, and various index types (Flat, IVF, HNSW). Use for fast k-NN search, large-scale vector retrieval, or when you need pure similarity search without metadata. Best for high-performance applications.OtherNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- knowledge-distillationOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsCompress large language models using knowledge distillation from teacher to student models. Use when deploying smaller models with retained performance, transferring GPT-4 capabilities to open-source models, or reducing inference costs. Covers temperature scaling, soft targets, reverse KLD, logit distillation, and MiniLLM training strategies.DevOpsNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- formula-derivationwanshuiyin/Auto-claude-code-research-in-sleepStructures and derives research formulas when the user wants to 推导公式, build a theory line, organize assumptions, turn scattered equations into a coherent derivation, or rewrite theory notes into a paper-ready formula document. Use when the derivation target is not yet fully fixed, the main object still needs to be chosen, or the user needs a coherent derivation package rather than a finished theorem proof.ScienceNo warnings★ 18.1K↓ —
- awq-quantizationOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsActivation-aware weight quantization for 4-bit LLM compression with 3x speedup and minimal accuracy loss. Use when deploying large models (7B-70B) on limited GPU memory, when you need faster inference than GPTQ with better accuracy preservation, or for instruction-tuned and multimodal models. MLSys 2024 Best Paper Award winner.DevOpsNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- azure-messagingmicrosoft/skillsTroubleshoot and resolve issues with Azure Messaging SDKs for Event Hubs and Service Bus. Covers connection failures, authentication errors, message processing issues, and SDK configuration problems. WHEN: event hub SDK error, service bus SDK issue, messaging connection failure, AMQP error, event processor host issue, message lock lost, message lock expired, lock renewal, lock renewal batch, send timeout, receiver disconnected, SDK troubleshooting, azure messaging SDK, event hub consumer, service bus queue issue, topic subscription error, enable logging event hub, service bus logging, eventhub python, servicebus java, eventhub javascript, servicebus dotnet, event hub checkpoint, event hub not receiving messages, service bus dead letter, batch processing lock, session lock expired, idle timeout, connection inactive, link detach, slow reconnect, session error, duplicate events, offset reset, receive batch.OfficialDevOpsNo warnings★ 3.1K↓ —Also in 2 other repos
- upgrade-stripestripe/aiGuide for upgrading Stripe API versions, webhook endpoints, server-side SDKs, Stripe.js, and mobile SDKsOfficialEngineeringNo warnings★ 2K↓ —Also in 4 other repos
- pytorch-fsdp2Orchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsAdds PyTorch FSDP2 (fully_shard) to training scripts with correct init, sharding, mixed precision/offload config, and distributed checkpointing. Use when models exceed single-GPU memory or when you need DTensor-based sharding with DeviceMesh.ProductivityNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- krillinai-ttskrillinai/OpenCreatorUse when generating target-language dubbing with KrillinAI CLI from SRT subtitles, including TTS audio creation and optional dubbed video generation.MediaNo warnings★ 13.9K↓ —
- training-llms-megatronOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsTrains large language models (2B-462B parameters) using NVIDIA Megatron-Core with advanced parallelism strategies. Use when training models >1B parameters, need maximum GPU efficiency (47% MFU on H100), or require tensor/pipeline/sequence/context/expert parallelism. Production-ready framework used for Nemotron, LLaMA, DeepSeek.ProductivityNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- applicationinsights-web-tsmicrosoft/skillsInstrument browser/web apps with the Application Insights JavaScript SDK (@microsoft/applicationinsights-web). Use for Real User Monitoring (RUM) — page views, clicks, AJAX/fetch dependencies, exceptions, custom events, and browser-side GenAI agent traces correlated to backend OpenTelemetry traces. Covers SDK Loader Script and npm setup, framework extensions (React, React Native, Angular), Click Analytics, telemetry initializers, and OTel GenAI semantic conventions for agent/tool/model spans emitted from the browser.OfficialDataNo warnings★ 3.1K↓ —Also in 1 other repo
- pyvene-interventionsOrchestra-Research/AI-Research-SKILLsProvides guidance for performing causal interventions on PyTorch models using pyvene's declarative intervention framework. Use when conducting causal tracing, activation patching, interchange intervention training, or testing causal hypotheses about model behavior.TestingNo warnings★ 14K↓ —
- krillinai-coverkrillinai/OpenCreatorUse when generating a cover image with the KrillinAI CLI from a complete image prompt, including validating image-provider configuration and inspecting the generated image and saved prompt.MediaNo warnings★ 13.9K↓ —
azure-search-documents-dotnet
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OfficialDevOpsUpdated 16 hours ago
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Azure AI Search SDK for .NET (Azure.Search.Documents). Use for building search applications with full-text, vector, semantic, and hybrid search. Covers SearchClient (queries, document CRUD), SearchIndexClient (index management), and SearchIndexerClient (indexers, skillsets). Triggers: "Azure Search .NET", "SearchClient", "SearchIndexClient", "vector search C#", "semantic search .NET", "hybrid search", "Azure.Search.Documents".
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npx skills add microsoft/skills --skill azure-search-documents-dotnet -a claude-code
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