231 skills
Separates DAX data-fetching from TypeScript presentation. Guides when to use DAX vs. TypeScript vs. Vega-Lite for aggregation, total rows, FORMAT(), SELECTCOLUMNS, BLANK handling, filtering, multi-grain queries, cross-filtering and cross-highlight subset/overlay queries, and format strings.
Use when building or modifying the app layout, creating UI components, or making any visual design decisions. Ensures consistency, accessibility, and a polished, unique app.
Ensure web apps, HTML pages, and Power Platform components meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines. Use this skill WHENEVER building, reviewing, or refactoring any web UI or Power Platform artifact — standalone HTML/CSS/JS pages, websites and single-page apps, React/web artifacts, PCF (PowerApps Component Framework) controls, HTML/JS web resources, model-driven apps and forms, canvas apps, or Power Pages — even if the user does not say "accessibility". Trigger on requests to create pages or components, build forms, style UI, add buttons/inputs/grids/charts, theme an app, apply a Power Apps mode
Use this skill whenever the user asks to design, prepare, deliver, evaluate, improve, localize, or modernize Microsoft technical learning experiences, instructor-led training, workshops, demonstrations, hands-on labs, certification preparation, assessments, surveys, or learning enablement initiatives. Apply an instructional intelligence assessment before generating training assets or recommendations.
Turns vague or complex business requests (decisions, problems, projects, incidents, processes, ideas, documents, communications) into a clear outcome, an appropriately sized plan, and a verified result. Also assesses whether repeated work should become a reusable Skill and can draft that Skill package. Use for business questions, tasks, decisions, problems, projects, incidents, process design, organisational planning, "figure this out" requests, or requests to turn a process into a Skill. Do not use for casual conversation, trivial rewrites, or work already covered by a more specific installed
Use this skill whenever the user asks to check, review, or fix the accessibility of a PowerPoint deck, Word document, HTML page, or Markdown file, and before handing over any deck or document this agent just generated, so it does not ship with missing alt text, untitled slides, or unreadable colour contrast.
Use only when the user explicitly requests a deep Aspire architectural or pattern review of an existing PR or diff, or when a generic reviewer escalates a named Aspire-domain question it cannot resolve. Do not use for ordinary review, implementation, debugging, explanation, or design discussion—even when a PR is referenced—and never select it from changed file paths alone.
Use this skill when editing or creating CLI output, logging, warnings, error messages, progress indicators, or diagnostic summaries in the APM codebase. Activate whenever code touches console helpers (_rich_success, _rich_warning, _rich_error, _rich_info, _rich_echo), DiagnosticCollector, STATUS_SYMBOLS, CommandLogger, or any user-facing terminal output — even if the user doesn't mention "logging" or "UX" explicitly.
Use this skill when editing or creating CLI output, logging, warnings, error messages, progress indicators, or diagnostic summaries in the APM codebase. Activate whenever code touches console helpers (_rich_success, _rich_warning, _rich_error, _rich_info, _rich_echo), DiagnosticCollector, STATUS_SYMBOLS, CommandLogger, or any user-facing terminal output — even if the user doesn't mention "logging" or "UX" explicitly.
Structured tradeoff analysis methodology — the 8-dimension comparison frame, tradeoff matrix template, and common tradeoff patterns. Use when evaluating design alternatives, comparing technology choices, or when the answer is 'it depends.'
Use when the /systems-design-review mode is active. 7-step design review methodology -- understand the design, classify the system, evaluate against codebase, adversarial analysis, tradeoff validation, synthesis, and action items. Governs conversation flow, delegation patterns, and user validation checkpoints.
Use when the /systems-design mode is active. 9-phase structured design methodology -- problem framing, system classification, constraints, candidate architectures, tradeoff analysis, risk review, refinement, migration planning, and documentation. Governs conversation flow, delegation patterns, and user validation checkpoints.
Domain patterns for workflow orchestration systems — long-running processes, state machines, saga coordination, human-in-the-loop gates, retry and timeout hierarchies, and failure modes. Use when designing or evaluating workflow engines, job orchestrators, or multi-step business process systems.
Domain patterns for real-time and collaborative systems — persistent connections, state synchronization, conflict resolution, presence, fan-out, and failure modes. Use when designing or evaluating chat systems, collaborative editors, live dashboards, gaming backends, or any system with bidirectional real-time communication.
Domain patterns for peer-to-peer system architecture — network topologies, NAT traversal, peer discovery, data distribution, consistency without central authority, identity and trust, and incentive mechanisms. Use when designing or evaluating a decentralized, peer-to-peer, or mesh-networked system.
Domain patterns for event-driven and message-based systems — pub/sub, event sourcing, CQRS, sagas, delivery guarantees, schema evolution, and failure modes. Use when designing or evaluating systems built around events, messages, or asynchronous workflows.
Domain patterns for enterprise integration — legacy modernization, strangler fig, anti-corruption layers, API gateways, canonical data models, event-carried state transfer, and failure modes. Use when designing or evaluating integration between existing enterprise systems, legacy modernization, or multi-system orchestration.
Foundational patterns for distributed systems — consensus, consistency models, replication, partitioning, clock synchronization, distributed transactions, and failure modes. Use when designing or evaluating any system that spans multiple nodes, processes, or failure domains.
Domain patterns for CLI tools and developer SDKs — command structure, configuration layering, plugin architecture, distribution, backward compatibility, shell integration, and failure modes. Use when designing or evaluating command-line tools, developer platforms, or SDK libraries.
Object-oriented design principles as a lens for system architecture — SOLID, composition over inheritance, the actor model, design patterns (and when they're wrong), encapsulation, polymorphism, and responsibility-driven design. Use when evaluating code organization, module boundaries, or object/component relationships.
The Unix/Linux design philosophy as a lens for system design — mechanism vs policy, composability, small tools, text streams, convention over configuration, and the principle of least surprise. Use when evaluating designs for composability, simplicity, or separation of concerns.
Domain-Driven Design as a lens for system architecture — bounded contexts, aggregates, ubiquitous language, context mapping, domain events, and strategic vs tactical patterns. Use when modeling complex business domains, defining service boundaries, or evaluating whether a system's structure reflects its domain.
