DevOps skills

Diagnose OpenViking memory problems by checking plugin installation, client settings, server connections, and recent activity. The skill helps trace missing recalled context, failed saves, and authentication errors, then guides targeted fixes and checks whether they worked.

• Investigating missing recalled context
• Checking whether conversation records were saved
• Troubleshooting 401 or 403 authentication errors

Prepare and publish Windows apps to the Microsoft Store using msstore. Covers account credentials, application packaging, submission tracking, beta testing groups, gradual releases, and automated publishing through CI/CD pipelines.

• Set up credentials for Microsoft Store publishing
• Package and submit a Windows app
• Check submission status and update listing metadata

Create multi-stage Dockerfiles that separate building an application from running it. Guides image selection, caching, file inclusion, permissions, and health checks to produce smaller container images with only the dependencies needed at runtime.

• Separating build and runtime stages
• Reducing files and packages in the final image
• Reordering layers to reuse the build cache

Manage Namecheap domains and DNS records, which connect domain names to services, through its API. List domains, edit records, switch nameservers, and configure email forwarding, with guidance for initial credentials and allowed IP setup.

• List registered domains and current DNS records
• Add or update A, CNAME, MX, and TXT records
• Switch nameservers for a domain

Create a structured review after a production incident, focusing on systems and processes without blaming individuals. Reconstruct events, quantify impact, investigate causes, and document specific follow-up actions with named owners and deadlines.

• Write a review after a production outage
• Reconstruct an incident timeline from records
• Separate root causes from contributing factors

Turn existing Azure infrastructure into Terraform code using Azure Verified Modules, reusable infrastructure components. Discover resources, document dependencies, derive import addresses from module source, and check plans for unwanted changes to the live environment.

• Bring existing Azure resources under Terraform management
• Generate code for a subscription or resource group
• Document resource dependencies and architecture

Plan the deployment and management of MCP-connected agents in Microsoft 365. Get admin center instructions for approval, user and group assignments, access controls, security reviews, and monitoring throughout the agent lifecycle.

• Rolling out an agent to selected departments
• Reviewing authentication and permissions before deployment
• Planning internal or public store publication

Audit GitHub Codespaces startup time and spending, then identify up to three evidence-based improvements to development containers, machine sizes, prebuilds, or idle timeouts, with validation results and expected impact.

• Investigating slow Codespaces startup
• Reviewing Codespaces spending
• Trimming unused development container components

Create an agent user in Microsoft Entra ID so an AI agent can access services requiring a user identity. Covers validating the parent agent identity, creating the account, assigning a manager and licenses, and troubleshooting setup errors.

• Create a user identity linked to an existing agent identity
• Prepare an agent account for a mailbox and Teams
• Assign a manager for organizational chart visibility

Monitor Power Automate across an organization's tenant using FlowStudio MCP's cached data. Review failure rates, run-health trends, flow and app inventories, and inactive owners to prepare health and compliance reports. Requires FlowStudio for Teams or MCP Pro+.

• Identify flows with high failure rates across the organization
• Review run-health trends over a selected period
• Inventory environments, flows, apps, and connections

Design and review infrastructure and release workflows with checks tailored to the environment. Covers automated build and deployment pipelines, containers, health checks, rollback plans, feature flags, and mobile releases to help assess readiness before deployment.

• Reviewing deployment and rollback plans
• Designing automated build and deployment pipelines
• Checking Docker and Kubernetes configurations

Create and update prompt-based agents in Azure AI Foundry from a local JSON manifest, a file listing agent definitions. The skill prepares synchronization scripts, pushes instructions to the service, and verifies registered agents.

• Registering multiple agents from JSON definitions
• Synchronizing changes to agent instructions
• Preparing a manifest and synchronization script

Audit GitHub Actions workflows and run history to identify wasted automated checks and runner time. Get up to three evidence-based improvements aimed at reducing runtime or cost while preserving required validation.

• Investigate long GitHub Actions runs
• Review CI costs and unnecessary workflow runs
• Improve caching and cancellation of overlapping runs

Diagnose Fedora Linux problems with a structured troubleshooting plan. Get commands for checking services, logs, and packages, followed by remediation, validation, and rollback steps that account for SELinux and firewalld where relevant.

• Investigating a service that will not start
• Troubleshooting package-related problems
• Checking SELinux or firewall involvement

Update GitHub Actions when workflow logs warn about deprecated runtimes. The skill guides compatible version selection, pins actions to exact commits, preserves existing workflow behavior, and checks execution results and outputs after the upgrade.

• Addressing deprecated runtime warnings
• Upgrading actions while preserving workflow behavior
• Pinning action versions to exact commits

Create and review CSV geofeeds, files that publish location information for public IP addresses. Check formatting, country and region codes, and privacy concerns, then review suggested improvements in an HTML report.

• Create a location feed for public IP addresses
• Check CSV formatting and location codes
• Review privacy concerns in published location data

Create rollout plans for application and infrastructure changes. Organize readiness checks, deployment steps, health indicators, rollback procedures, and stakeholder communications, adapting the detail to the target environment, change type, and level of risk.

• Prepare a production deployment plan
• Define rollback steps and decision criteria
• Set post-deployment health checks

Turn an existing GitHub Actions workflow into a structured specification for maintenance and AI reference. Document its purpose, triggers, job dependencies, inputs, outputs, permissions, and failure handling, focusing on expected behavior rather than implementation details.

• Documenting an existing GitHub Actions workflow
• Reviewing job order and dependencies
• Organizing permissions and failure handling

Investigate Debian Linux issues through service checks, logs, and package tools. Receive repair commands, verification steps, and rollback guidance, with attention to AppArmor security restrictions or firewall settings when relevant.

• Investigating Debian service or package problems
• Checking whether security restrictions affect an issue
• Preparing repair, verification, and rollback steps

Review Azure infrastructure code and deployed resources against five Well-Architected Framework pillars. Identify configuration drift, classify risks, and produce remediation guidance and an architecture diagram, with GitHub issues created after user approval.

• Review Azure reliability and security risks
• Compare infrastructure code with deployed resources
• Assess opportunities to improve cost and performance

Choose an Azure role that grants only the permissions an identity needs. The skill finds suitable built-in roles, creates custom definitions when necessary, and generates CLI commands and Bicep infrastructure code for assigning the role.

• Choose a role for a specific set of Azure operations
• Create a custom role when built-in roles do not fit
• Generate CLI commands for a role assignment

Design or review distributed systems, where multiple computers work together, using 42 cloud design patterns. Organizes options for reliability, performance, messaging, security, and deployment, emphasizing why to choose each pattern and the trade-offs involved.

• Review a distributed system architecture
• Choose patterns for failures and recovery
• Compare caching, scaling, and load management approaches

Assess an Azure resource using logs and performance measurements, investigate failures and their impact, and produce a prioritized remediation plan with concrete steps, validation procedures, rollback options, and monitoring recommendations.

• Investigating Azure service failures
• Finding causes of slow responses
• Prioritizing fixes by operational impact

Diagnose CentOS problems using service status, logs, and RHEL-compatible commands. Get remediation commands, checks after major changes, and rollback steps, with attention to SELinux access controls and the firewalld firewall where relevant.

• Investigating a service that will not start
• Diagnosing package installation or update failures
• Checking SELinux or firewall restrictions