Microsoft Docs

by microsoft

Microsoft Docs is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in skills.

2.9K stars331 forkson microsoft/skillsAdded 2026/08/17+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/14

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Install Microsoft Docs

Copy Microsoft Docs into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/skills/microsoft-docs ~/.claude/skills/microsoft-docs

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .github/skills/microsoft-docs/SKILL.md in microsoft/skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/microsoft-docs
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Microsoft Docs does

Microsoft Docs searches and fetches official Microsoft documentation so an agent can answer questions about Azure, .NET, M365, Windows, Power Platform, and other Microsoft technologies with current, accurate information. Use it when users ask how something works, need tutorials, configuration options, limits, quotas, or best practices.

Microsoft Docs is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Microsoft Docs comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents, azure, foundry and mcp.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Microsoft Docs

Tools

Tool	Use For
`microsoft_docs_search`	Find documentation—concepts, guides, tutorials, configuration
`microsoft_docs_fetch`	Get full page content (when search excerpts aren't enough)

When to Use

Understanding concepts — "How does Cosmos DB partitioning work?"
Learning a service — "Azure Functions overview", "Container Apps architecture"
Finding tutorials — "quickstart", "getting started", "step-by-step"
Configuration options — "App Service configuration settings"
Limits & quotas — "Azure OpenAI rate limits", "Service Bus quotas"
Best practices — "Azure security best practices"

Query Effectiveness

Good queries are specific:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Microsoft Docs

What else does microsoft publish alongside Microsoft Docs?
Microsoft Docs is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Application Insights Web, Azure AI Agents Persistent .NET and Azure AI Document Intelligence .NET. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Microsoft Docs does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/skills page.
How does Microsoft Docs compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Microsoft Docs ranks #713 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Microsoft Docs against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.