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Skills are live in SharePoint. I'm building the directory.

A growing library of production-ready AI Skills you can drop straight into your tenant. Built and tested in real client SharePoint environments. Free for the first wave of subscribers.

What changed

Skills turn AI in SharePoint from prompts into a practice.

In April 2026, Microsoft shipped Skills in public preview as part of AI in SharePoint. They take a multi-step workflow, capture the steps and the rules, and save it as a reusable asset. Anyone on the site can run it. You write the Skill once. Your team runs it forever.

That is a real shift. AI in SharePoint moves from one-off prompts to a controlled, repeatable layer with version history, permissions, and a published source of truth.

The catch: Skills are stored as Markdown files at /Agent Assets/Skills/<name>/SKILL.md. The format is open. The quality of the Skill depends entirely on how well it is written. Get it wrong and the agent runs the wrong steps, in the wrong order, on the wrong files. Most teams will spend weeks rewriting the same dozen patterns badly.

I'm building the directory so they don't have to.

/Agent Assets/Skills/contract-review/SKILL.md
# Contract review skill
 
## When to use
When a user asks to review or validate one
or more contract documents in this site.
 
## Inputs
Selected document(s) in chat
Or library path passed by the user
 
## Steps
1. Read the contract.
2. Find the lawyer ID. Format: xxx-xxx.
3. If missing or wrong, add the file
   name to the Invalid Contracts list.
4. Create the list if it doesn't exist.
 
## Output
A short summary back in chat with
pass/fail count and any flagged files.
Inside the directory

Real Skills for the jobs SharePoint teams actually do.

Six categories at launch. Every Skill ships with the source Markdown, the prompt that triggers it cleanly, the permission model it needs, and a one-page note on what to test before you let your team run it.

Document review and validation

12 Skills

Contract checks, format validation, mandatory field detection, exception flagging into a tracking list.

contract-review policy-mandatory-fields invoice-format-check

Content governance

9 Skills

Sensitivity audits, owner reassignment, broken link sweeps, ROT (redundant, outdated, trivial) flagging.

rot-flagger orphan-owner-finder link-sweep

Metadata and tagging

8 Skills

Auto-tagging from content, controlled vocabulary enforcement, folder-to-metadata migration.

auto-tag-from-body vocabulary-guard folder-to-metadata

Reporting and summarisation

7 Skills

Weekly digests, cross-document briefs, named-entity rollups, status-change summaries for leadership.

weekly-digest cross-doc-brief entity-rollup

List automation

6 Skills

Triage, routing, status transitions tied to document state. Lists become the system of record without writing code.

request-triage status-from-document approval-router

Library housekeeping

5 Skills

Folder restructures, naming convention enforcement, archival staging. Quiet work that pays back every week.

naming-enforcer archive-stager folder-rebalance

47 Skills in the launch wave. New ones added monthly. Each one tested in a real tenant before it ships.

How it works

Pick. Install. Run. Three steps.

Skills are Markdown files. The format is documented by Microsoft. There is no installer, no licence, no admin centre to configure. If you have Edit permission on the site, you can drop a Skill in. If you have View, you can run it.

01

Pick a Skill from the directory

Filter by category, by what you want to fix, or by the SharePoint feature it touches (libraries, lists, metadata). Read the one-page note before you commit.

02

Install it in your tenant

Drop the .md file into /Agent Assets/Skills/ on the target site. Or paste the source into AI in SharePoint chat and ask it to create the Skill for you.

03

Run it from chat

Trigger it by name or let AI in SharePoint load it automatically when the prompt matches. Test on a small selection first. Share across the team once it behaves the way you expect.

Who's behind this

Behind this is me.

I'm Daniel Anderson. I run an AI solutions firm called ShiftF5.ai. Microsoft Partner, with active Anthropic-side work for the heavier custom builds that Skills are not designed to carry on their own.

I'm publishing this directory while I'm in client SharePoint tenants every week, building, breaking, and rewriting Skills in production. Every Skill that lands here gets tested in a live environment first. If a pattern doesn't hold up, it doesn't ship.

By design, Skills cannot connect to external systems or run custom code. That is the right boundary. It also means the Skills you find here stay native, portable, and safe to run inside your tenant. Anything that needs to reach beyond SharePoint is a different shape of work, and I'll be honest about that.

  • Every Skill tested in a live tenant before it ships
  • Source Markdown is open, readable, and yours to fork
  • Permission model and risks documented per Skill
  • Updated as Microsoft ships new AI in SharePoint capabilities

Daniel Anderson

Founder, ShiftF5.ai · Microsoft Partner

Twenty years watching tech rollouts land badly because someone optimised the wrong layer. SharePoint and Microsoft 365 since the early days. Anthropic and Claude for the work Copilot alone can't carry.

Public preview AI in SharePoint Skills Opt-in at site or tenant. Set-SPOTenant -KnowledgeAgent for tenant-wide.
/Agent Assets/Skills/<name>/SKILL.md Where Skills live in your tenant. Markdown. Versioned. Permissioned.
Microsoft 365 Copilot licence No extra cost for Skills during preview. Included in the SKU your users already have.
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P.S. AI in SharePoint Skills is currently in Microsoft public preview. Get the first wave of Skills, plus a short note when each new one lands and when Microsoft moves Skills to GA.