Agent Skills: Microsoft Just Shipped What You've Been Building

Microsoft Just Validated Your Architecture On May 13, 2026, Microsoft shipped Agent Skills in Visual Studio — a pattern for giving AI agents reusable, on-demand capabilities instead of cramming everything into prompts. It's the official productization of what builders like me have been doing for months: extracting repeatable procedures out of agent instructions and loading them only when needed. I've been running 71 skills across 50 production agents on GitHub Copilot since before Microsoft m...