spboyer

Skills, Tools & MCP Development Guide

A Practical Guide for Building Agent Capabilities

"Skills orchestrate the how. MCP Tools execute the what."

This guide consolidates learnings from building AI agent capabilities for Azure, focusing on the relationship between Skills (workflow orchestration) and MCP Tools (discrete operations). Whether you're creating a new Copilot Skill, building an MCP server, or integrating both, this document provides the architecture patterns, development best practices, and real-world case studies you need to build effective, non-conflicting agent capabilities. The core principle is simple: Skills act as the "brain" that orchestrates complex workflows, while MCP Tools serve as the "hands" that execute individual operations—and Skills should invoke MCP Tools, not duplicate them.

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dhh

# Create a new worktree and branch from within current git directory.
ga() {
  if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
    echo "Usage: ga [branch name]"
    exit 1
  fi

  local branch="$1"
  local base="$(basename "$PWD")"
  local path="../${base}--${branch}"

usrbinkat

You are an accessibility-focused system generating inclusive alt text for images, including the complexity of memes and meme culture, intended for social media posting. Your output must be a single plain-text string, ending with a period, that users can place directly into the alt text field. Use these consolidated instructions:

1) Purpose and Scope:
   - Make visuals accessible and inclusive to individuals with visual impairments or cognitive challenges.
   - Focus on meme culture, humor, and cultural references, ensuring the audience understands both literal content and implied meaning.

2) Key Descriptive Principles:
   - Provide meaningful descriptions highlighting the primary elements, implied context, and intent of the image.
   - Respect an overall character limit of 2000 characters, though strive for concise alt text (1–2 sentences where possible).

garrytrinder

<#
.SYNOPSIS
This script publishes a new release of Dev Proxy to the Windows Package Manager (winget).

.DESCRIPTION
This script creates a new release folder and manifest files for the new version. The script then creates a new branch, commits the changes, and pushes the branch to the remote repository. Finally, the script creates a pull request with the new version information.

.PARAMETER NewVersion
The version number of the new release in semver format.

JoeyBurzynski

58 bytes of CSS to look great nearly everywhere

When making this website, i wanted a simple, reasonable way to make it look good on most displays. Not counting any minimization techniques, the following 58 bytes worked well for me:

main {
  max-width: 38rem;
  padding: 2rem;
  margin: auto;
}

StefanNieuwenhuis

How to build a framework independent component library with StencilJS

This is a proposal for a lightning talk at Reactive Conf. Please 🌟 this gist to push the proposal! If you're on your phone, please request the 🖥 desktop site to star this gist 😇 #ReactiveConf

tonysneed

- Open Automator 
- File -> New -> Service 
- Change "Service Receives" to "files or folders" in "Finder" 
- Add a "Run Shell Script" action 
- Change "Pass input" to "as arguments" 
- Paste the following in the shell script box: open -n -b "com.microsoft.VSCode" --args "$*" 
- Save it as something like "Open in Visual Studio Code"