Skill Creator

by microsoft

Skill Creator 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 Skill Creator

Copy Skill Creator 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/skill-creator ~/.claude/skills/skill-creator

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

What Skill Creator does

Skill Creator guides creation of effective skills for AI coding agents working with Azure SDKs and Microsoft Foundry services. Use it when creating new skills or updating existing ones.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Skill Creator

Guide for creating skills that extend AI agent capabilities, with emphasis on Azure SDKs and Microsoft Foundry.

Required Context: When creating SDK or API skills, users MUST provide the SDK package name, documentation URL, or repository reference for the skill to be based on.

About Skills

Skills are modular knowledge packages that transform general-purpose agents into specialized experts:

Procedural knowledge — Multi-step workflows for specific domains
SDK expertise — API patterns, authentication, error handling for Azure services
Domain context — Schemas, business logic, company-specific patterns
Bundled resources — Scripts, references, templates for complex tasks

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

Frequently asked about Skill Creator

What else does microsoft publish alongside Skill Creator?
Skill Creator 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 Skill Creator does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/skills page.
How does Skill Creator compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Skill Creator ranks #715 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 Skill Creator against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.