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Add agents from the public microsoft/discovery GitHub repository to this workspace, either (a) locally for the Copilot app by emitting a `.agent.md` companion per agent (so each is invocable via `runSubagent`), (b) into a Microsoft Discovery project via `UpsertAgent` sourced fresh from upstream (binding pre-existing tool ARM resources when present, or building + pushing + registering them in Azure first when missing), or (c) promoting an agent already added to the local Copilot app (sourced from
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Skill details
Versionv1.0.0
AuthorMicrosoft
Categorycoding
Skill IDmicrosoft/discovery/skills/add-example-agents
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