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Agent skills by microsoft
167 skills indexed from github.com/microsoft. Reference any of them in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install.
- .agents · Collection · 188,455 stars
- .agents · Collection · 188,455 stars
- .github · Collection · 188,455 stars
- accessibility · Skill · 188,455 stars
Primary accessibility skill for VS Code. REQUIRED for new feature and contribution work, and also applies to updates of existing UI. Covers accessibility h
- act-on-feedback · Skill · 188,455 stars
Act on user feedback attached to the current session. Use when the user submits feedback on the session's changes via the Submit Feedback button.
- agent-customization · Skill · 188,455 stars
**WORKFLOW SKILL** — Create, update, review, fix, or debug VS Code agent customization files (.instructions.md, .prompt.md, .agent.md, SKILL.md, copilot-in
- agent-host-e2e-tests · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use when writing, recording, updating, validating, or troubleshooting the agent host end-to-end tests under src/vs/platform/agentHost/test/node/e2e (black-
- agent-host-logs · Skill · 188,455 stars
Analyze Agent Host debug log exports. Use when given an ah-logs or ahp-logs zip/folder, an Export Agent Host Debug Logs bundle, events.jsonl, AHP JSONL tra
- assets · Collection · 188,455 stars
- author-contributions · Skill · 188,455 stars
Identify all files a specific author contributed to on a branch vs its upstream, tracing code through renames. Use when asked who edited what, what code an
- auto-perf-optimize · Skill · 188,455 stars
Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke ru
- azure-pipelines · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use when validating Azure DevOps pipeline changes for the VS Code build. Covers queueing builds, checking build status, viewing logs, and iterating on pipe
- chat-customizations-editor · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use when working on the Chat Customizations editor — the management UI for agents, skills, instructions, hooks, prompts, MCP servers, and plugins.
- chat-perf · Skill · 188,455 stars
Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS Code version. Use when investigating chat rendering regress
- chronicle · Skill · 188,455 stars
Analyze Copilot session history for standup reports, usage tips, session search, and session reindexing. Use when the user asks for a standup, daily summar
- code-oss-logs · Skill · 188,455 stars
Find and read timestamped process logs from Code OSS dev builds, including main.log, renderer.log, extension host logs, and agenthost.log. For bundles prod
- code-review · Skill · 188,455 stars
Perform a code review of the current session's changes. Use when the user requests a code review via the Run Code Review button in the Changes toolbar.
- commit · Skill · 188,455 stars
Commit staged or unstaged changes with an AI-generated commit message that matches the repository's existing commit style. Use when the user asks to 'commi
- component-fixtures · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use when creating or updating component fixtures for screenshot testing, or when designing UI components to be fixture-friendly. Covers fixture file struct
- copilot · Collection · 188,455 stars
- cpu-profile-analysis · Skill · 188,455 stars
Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-*.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, compar
- create-agent · Skill · 188,455 stars
Create a custom agent (.agent.md) for a specific job.
- create-draft-pr · Skill · 188,455 stars
Create a draft pull request for the current session. Use when the user wants to open a draft PR with the session's changes.
- create-hook · Skill · 188,455 stars
Create a hook (.json) to enforce policy or automate agent lifecycle events.
- create-instructions · Skill · 188,455 stars
Create an instructions file (.instructions.md) for a project rule or convention.
- create-pr · Skill · 188,455 stars
Create a pull request for the current session. Use when the user wants to open a PR with the session's changes.
- create-prompt · Skill · 188,455 stars
Create a reusable prompt file (.prompt.md) for a common task.
- create-skill · Skill · 188,455 stars
Create a reusable skill (SKILL.md) that packages a workflow.
- design-philosophy · Skill · 188,455 stars
The VS Code design philosophy — a shared Values→Principles→Moves vocabulary for reasoning about UI in design terms instead of raw pixels. Use when designin
- extensions · Collection · 188,455 stars
- fix-ci · Skill · 188,455 stars
Fix the failed CI checks for the current session. Use when the user requests a CI fix via the Fix Checks button in the Changes toolbar.
- fix-ci-failures · Skill · 188,455 stars
Investigate and fix CI failures on a pull request. Use when CI checks fail on a PR branch — covers finding the PR, identifying failed checks, downloading l
- flaky-smoke-tests · Skill · 188,455 stars
Diagnose intermittent VS Code Electron smoke-test failures from the Azure DevOps Flaky Smoke Tests pipeline (definition 700). Covers finding failed iterati
- generate-run-commands · Skill · 188,455 stars
Generate or modify run commands for the current session. Use when the user wants to set up or update run commands that appear in the session's Run button.
- get-search-view-results · Skill · 188,455 stars
Get the current search results from the Search view in VS Code
- github-copilot-upgrader · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use this to update the Github Copilot CLI/SDK
- heap-snapshot-analysis · Skill · 188,455 stars
Analyze V8 heap snapshots to investigate memory leaks and retention issues. Use when given .heapsnapshot files, asked to compare before/after snapshots, as
- init · Skill · 188,455 stars
Generate or update chat customization files for AI coding agents
- install-vscode-extension · Skill · 188,455 stars
How to install a VS Code extension from an extension ID. Useful when the user wants to add new capabilities to their VS Code environment by installing exte
- integrated-browser · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use this when working on the VS Code integrated browser ("browserView") to understand its architecture and mental model. Covers the embedded Chromium brows
- integration-tests · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use when running integration tests in the VS Code repo. Covers scripts/test-integration.sh (macOS/Linux) and scripts/test-integration.bat (Windows), their
- launch · Skill · 188,455 stars
Launch and automate VS Code Insiders with the Copilot Chat extension using @playwright/cli via Chrome DevTools Protocol. Use when you need to interact with
- launch · Skill · 188,455 stars
Launch Code OSS (VS Code from sources) into an isolated throwaway profile with unique debug ports so you can drive it with @playwright/cli AND attach a Nod
- memory-leak-audit · Skill · 188,455 stars
Audit code for memory leaks and disposable issues. Use when reviewing event listeners, DOM handlers, lifecycle callbacks, or fixing leak reports. Covers ad
- merge · Skill · 188,455 stars
Merge changes from the topic branch to the merge base branch. Use when the user wants to merge their session's work back to the base branch.
- otel · Skill · 188,455 stars
OpenTelemetry guidance for VS Code agent experiences. Use when changing Agent Host telemetry, local Copilot Chat telemetry, provider-native spans or metric
- project-setup-info-context7 · Skill · 188,455 stars
Comprehensive setup steps to help the user create complete project structures in a VS Code workspace. This tool is designed for full project initialization
- project-setup-info-local · Skill · 188,455 stars
Comprehensive setup steps to help the user create complete project structures in a VS Code workspace; this tool is designed for full project initialization
- prompts · Collection · 188,455 stars
- sessions · Skill · 188,455 stars
Core principles and workflow router for changes to the Agents Window under src/vs/sessions.
- sessions · Collection · 188,455 stars
- skills · Collection · 188,455 stars
- skills · Collection · 188,455 stars
- skills · Collection · 188,455 stars
- skills · Collection · 188,455 stars
- skills · Collection · 188,455 stars
- smoke-tests · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use when running VS Code smoke tests or working on smoke-test CI steps. Covers npm run smoketest / smoketest-no-compile, grep filtering tests, and a tempor
- src · Collection · 188,455 stars
- sweeper-fix · Skill · 188,455 stars
Implement a VS Code Sweeper fix spec — fetch the sweeper's agent-fixable review record from its public state repo, implement the narrow fix in the current
- symbolicate-crash-dump · Skill · 188,455 stars
Symbolicate a native VS Code crash dump (.dmp) using electron-minidump. Use when given a crash dump file, asked to symbolicate a crash, resolve missing met
- sync · Skill · 188,455 stars
Sync the current session branch with its upstream branch, or publish the current session branch to a remote. Use when the user asks to sync a branch, pull
- sync-upstream · Skill · 188,455 stars
Update a stale session branch by rebasing onto the latest origin. Use when the upstream has moved significantly and the session needs to catch up, resolvin
- troubleshoot · Skill · 188,455 stars
Investigate unexpected behavior in the current Copilot agent session by analyzing its event log. Use when the user asks why something happened, why a reque
- troubleshoot · Skill · 188,455 stars
Investigate unexpected chat agent behavior by analyzing direct debug logs in JSONL files. Use when users ask why something happened, why a request was slow
- unit-tests · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use when running unit tests in the VS Code repo. Covers the runTests tool, scripts/test.sh (macOS/Linux) and scripts/test.bat (Windows), and their supporte
- update-pr · Skill · 188,455 stars
Update the pull request for the current session. Use when the user wants to push new changes to an existing PR.
- update-screenshots · Skill · 188,455 stars
Update the committed blocks-ci screenshot hashes after the "Screenshots & Tests" check fails, or investigate a screenshot diff reported on a PR. Use when a
- update-skills · Skill · 188,455 stars
Create or update repository skills and instructions when major learnings are discovered during a session. Use when the user says "learn!", when a significa
- ux-css-layout · Skill · 188,455 stars
VS Code CSS conventions, file organization, class naming, standard sizes, SplitView/Grid layout, scrollable content, responsive layout, and text overflow/e
- ux-theming · Skill · 188,455 stars
VS Code theming, color tokens, widget styles, focus indicators, and high-contrast theme support. Use when registering colors, styling widgets with theme to
- vs · Collection · 188,455 stars
- vscode · Collection · 188,455 stars
- vscode-dev-workbench · Skill · 188,455 stars
Use when the user wants to run the vscode.dev server locally and exercise the VS Code workbench or Agents window in the integrated browser against the loca
- .claude · Collection · 94,118 stars
- packages · Collection · 94,118 stars
- playwright · Collection · 94,118 stars
- playwright-cli · Skill · 94,118 stars
Automate browser interactions, test web pages and work with Playwright tests.
- playwright-component-testing · Skill · 94,118 stars
Set up component testing with Playwright using a story gallery — scaffold stories and a gallery dev page driven by the built-in mount fixture, no dedicated
- playwright-core · Collection · 94,118 stars
- playwright-dev · Skill · 94,118 stars
Explains how to develop Playwright - add APIs, MCP tools, CLI commands, and vendor dependencies.
- playwright-devops · Skill · 94,118 stars
DevOps workflows for Playwright - CI failure analysis, workflow debugging, and release operations.
- playwright-test-results · Skill · 94,118 stars
Query Playwright CI test results from the aggregated DuckDB database. Answers questions about flaky tests, failure rates, slow tests, and per-run/SHA/PR re
- playwright-trace · Skill · 94,118 stars
Inspect Playwright trace files from the command line — list actions, view requests, console, errors, snapshots and screenshots.
- playwright-triage · Skill · 94,118 stars
Triage a Playwright bug report by reproducing it from the information in the issue. Use when asked to triage, reproduce, or verify a GitHub issue (a new bu
- skills · Collection · 94,118 stars
- skills · Collection · 94,118 stars
- src · Collection · 94,118 stars
- tools · Collection · 94,118 stars
- .claude · Collection · 12,375 stars
- dev · Skill · 12,375 stars
Development workflows for the playwright-cli repository. Use when the user asks about rolling dependencies, releasing, or other repo maintenance tasks.
- playwright-cli · Skill · 12,375 stars
Automate browser interactions, test web pages and work with Playwright tests.
- playwright-cli · Collection · 12,375 stars
- skills · Collection · 12,375 stars
- skills · Collection · 12,375 stars
- .github · Collection · 1,356 stars
- airunway-aks-setup · Skill · 1,356 stars
Set up AI Runway on AKS — from bare cluster to running model. Covers cluster verification, controller install, GPU assessment, provider setup, and first de
- airunway-aks-setup · Skill · 1,356 stars
Set up AI Runway on AKS — from bare cluster to running model. Covers cluster verification, controller install, GPU assessment, provider setup, and first de
- appinsights-instrumentation · Skill · 1,356 stars
Guidance for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights. Provides telemetry patterns, SDK setup, and configuration references. WHEN: how to inst
- appinsights-instrumentation · Skill · 1,356 stars
Guidance for instrumenting webapps with Azure Application Insights. Provides telemetry patterns, SDK setup, and configuration references. WHEN: how to inst
- azure-ai · Skill · 1,356 stars
Use for Azure AI: Search, Speech, OpenAI, Document Intelligence. Helps with search, vector/hybrid search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcription, OC
- azure-ai · Skill · 1,356 stars
Use for Azure AI: Search, Speech, OpenAI, Document Intelligence. Helps with search, vector/hybrid search, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, transcription, OC
- azure-aigateway · Skill · 1,356 stars
Configure Azure API Management as an AI Gateway for AI models, MCP tools, and agents. WHEN: semantic caching, token limit, content safety, load balancing,
- azure-aigateway · Skill · 1,356 stars
Configure Azure API Management as an AI Gateway for AI models, MCP tools, and agents. WHEN: semantic caching, token limit, content safety, load balancing,
- azure-app-onboard · Skill · 1,356 stars
End-to-end orchestrator: from a business idea, app idea, or existing app to running Azure deployment with cost estimates and pre-deploy approval. Analyzes
- azure-app-onboard · Skill · 1,356 stars
End-to-end orchestrator: from a business idea, app idea, or existing app to running Azure deployment with cost estimates and pre-deploy approval. Analyzes
- azure-app-onboard-prereq · Skill · 1,356 stars
Assess whether source code is ready to deploy to Azure — the check BEFORE infrastructure work. Evaluates build health, app completeness, dependencies and l
- azure-app-onboard-prereq · Skill · 1,356 stars
Assess whether source code is ready to deploy to Azure — the check BEFORE infrastructure work. Evaluates build health, app completeness, dependencies and l
- azure-cloud-migrate · Skill · 1,356 stars
Assess and migrate cross-cloud workloads to Azure with reports and code conversion. Supports Lambda→Functions, Beanstalk/Heroku/App Engine→App Service, Far
- azure-cloud-migrate · Skill · 1,356 stars
Assess and migrate cross-cloud workloads to Azure with reports and code conversion. Supports Lambda→Functions, Beanstalk/Heroku/App Engine→App Service, Far
- azure-compliance · Skill · 1,356 stars
Run Azure compliance and security audits with azqr plus Key Vault expiration checks. Covers best-practice assessment, resource review, policy/compliance va
- azure-compliance · Skill · 1,356 stars
Run Azure compliance and security audits with azqr plus Key Vault expiration checks. Covers best-practice assessment, resource review, policy/compliance va
- azure-compute · Skill · 1,356 stars
Azure VM/VMSS router. WHEN: create / provision / deploy / spin-up VM, recommend VM size, compare VM pricing, VMSS, scale set, autoscale, burstable, lightwe
- azure-compute · Skill · 1,356 stars
Azure VM/VMSS router. WHEN: create / provision / deploy / spin-up VM, recommend VM size, compare VM pricing, VMSS, scale set, autoscale, burstable, lightwe
- azure-cost · Skill · 1,356 stars
Azure cost management: query costs, forecast spending, optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: \"Azure costs\", \"Azure bill\", \"cost breakdown\", \"how much am I
- azure-cost · Skill · 1,356 stars
Azure cost management: query costs, forecast spending, optimize to reduce waste. WHEN: \"Azure costs\", \"Azure bill\", \"cost breakdown\", \"how much am I
- azure-deploy · Skill · 1,356 stars
Execute Azure deployments for ALREADY-PREPARED applications that have existing .azure/deployment-plan.md and infrastructure files. DO NOT use this skill wh
- azure-deploy · Skill · 1,356 stars
Execute Azure deployments for ALREADY-PREPARED applications that have existing .azure/deployment-plan.md and infrastructure files. DO NOT use this skill wh
- azure-diagnostics · Skill · 1,356 stars
Debug Azure production issues on Azure using AppLens, Azure Monitor, resource health, and safe triage. WHEN: debug production issues, troubleshoot app serv
- azure-diagnostics · Skill · 1,356 stars
Debug Azure production issues on Azure using AppLens, Azure Monitor, resource health, and safe triage. WHEN: debug production issues, troubleshoot app serv
- azure-enterprise-infra-planner · Skill · 1,356 stars
Architect and provision enterprise Azure infrastructure from workload descriptions. For cloud architects and platform engineers planning networking, identi
- azure-enterprise-infra-planner · Skill · 1,356 stars
Architect and provision enterprise Azure infrastructure from workload descriptions. For cloud architects and platform engineers planning networking, identi
- azure-kubernetes · Skill · 1,356 stars
Plan, create, and configure production-ready Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Covers Day-0 checklist, SKU selection (Automatic vs Standard), networ
- azure-kubernetes · Skill · 1,356 stars
Plan, create, and configure production-ready Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) clusters. Covers Day-0 checklist, SKU selection (Automatic vs Standard), networ
- azure-kusto · Skill · 1,356 stars
Query and analyze data in Azure Data Explorer (Kusto/ADX) using KQL for log analytics, telemetry, and time series analysis. WHEN: KQL queries, Kusto databa
- azure-kusto · Skill · 1,356 stars
Query and analyze data in Azure Data Explorer (Kusto/ADX) using KQL for log analytics, telemetry, and time series analysis. WHEN: KQL queries, Kusto databa
- azure-messaging · Skill · 1,356 stars
Troubleshoot and resolve issues with Azure Messaging SDKs for Event Hubs and Service Bus. Covers connection failures, authentication errors, message proces
- azure-messaging · Skill · 1,356 stars
Troubleshoot and resolve issues with Azure Messaging SDKs for Event Hubs and Service Bus. Covers connection failures, authentication errors, message proces
- azure-prepare · Skill · 1,356 stars
Prepare azd-based Azure projects for deployment: generates azure.yaml, infrastructure (Bicep/Terraform), and Dockerfiles for the Azure Developer CLI (azd)
- azure-prepare · Skill · 1,356 stars
Prepare azd-based Azure projects for deployment: generates azure.yaml, infrastructure (Bicep/Terraform), and Dockerfiles for the Azure Developer CLI (azd)
- azure-quotas · Skill · 1,356 stars
Check/manage Azure quotas and usage across providers. For deployment planning, capacity validation, region selection. WHEN: \"check quotas\", \"service lim
- azure-quotas · Skill · 1,356 stars
Check/manage Azure quotas and usage across providers. For deployment planning, capacity validation, region selection. WHEN: \"check quotas\", \"service lim
- azure-reliability · Skill · 1,356 stars
Assess and improve the reliability posture of PaaS Applications (Azure Functions and Azure App Service). Scans deployed resources for zone redundancy, ZRS
- azure-reliability · Skill · 1,356 stars
Assess and improve the reliability posture of PaaS Applications (Azure Functions and Azure App Service). Scans deployed resources for zone redundancy, ZRS
- azure-resource-lookup · Skill · 1,356 stars
List, find, and show Azure resources across subscriptions or resource groups. Handles prompts like \"list the websites in my subscription\", \"list my web
- azure-resource-lookup · Skill · 1,356 stars
List, find, and show Azure resources across subscriptions or resource groups. Handles prompts like \"list the websites in my subscription\", \"list my web
- azure-resource-visualizer · Skill · 1,356 stars
Analyze Azure resource groups and generate detailed Mermaid architecture diagrams showing the relationships between individual resources. WHEN: create arch
- azure-resource-visualizer · Skill · 1,356 stars
Analyze Azure resource groups and generate detailed Mermaid architecture diagrams showing the relationships between individual resources. WHEN: create arch
- azure-skills · Collection · 1,356 stars
- azure-skills · Collection · 1,356 stars
- azure-storage · Skill · 1,356 stars
Azure Storage Services including Blob Storage, File Shares, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Data Lake. Answers questions about storage access tiers (hot,
- azure-storage · Skill · 1,356 stars
Azure Storage Services including Blob Storage, File Shares, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Data Lake. Answers questions about storage access tiers (hot,
- azure-upgrade · Skill · 1,356 stars
Assess and upgrade Azure workloads between plans, tiers, or SKUs, or modernize Azure SDK dependencies in source code. WHEN: upgrade Consumption to Flex Con
- azure-upgrade · Skill · 1,356 stars
Assess and upgrade Azure workloads between plans, tiers, or SKUs, or modernize Azure SDK dependencies in source code. WHEN: upgrade Consumption to Flex Con
- azure-validate · Skill · 1,356 stars
Pre-deployment validation for Azure readiness. Run deep checks on configuration, infrastructure (Bicep or Terraform), RBAC role assignments, managed identi
- azure-validate · Skill · 1,356 stars
Pre-deployment validation for Azure readiness. Run deep checks on configuration, infrastructure (Bicep or Terraform), RBAC role assignments, managed identi
- entra-agent-id · Skill · 1,356 stars
Provision Microsoft Entra Agent Identity Blueprints, BlueprintPrincipals, and per-instance Agent Identities via Microsoft Graph, and configure OAuth 2.0 to
- entra-agent-id · Skill · 1,356 stars
Provision Microsoft Entra Agent Identity Blueprints, BlueprintPrincipals, and per-instance Agent Identities via Microsoft Graph, and configure OAuth 2.0 to
- entra-app-registration · Skill · 1,356 stars
Guides Microsoft Entra ID app registration, OAuth 2.0 authentication, and MSAL integration. USE FOR: create app registration, register Azure AD app, config
- entra-app-registration · Skill · 1,356 stars
Guides Microsoft Entra ID app registration, OAuth 2.0 authentication, and MSAL integration. USE FOR: create app registration, register Azure AD app, config
- microsoft-foundry · Skill · 1,356 stars
Build, deploy, evaluate, optimize, fine-tune, and manage Microsoft Foundry agents, models, and resources end to end. USE FOR: azd ai agent, azd provision/d
- microsoft-foundry · Skill · 1,356 stars
Build, deploy, evaluate, optimize, fine-tune, and manage Microsoft Foundry agents, models, and resources end to end. USE FOR: azd ai agent, azd provision/d
- plugins · Collection · 1,356 stars
- python-appservice-deploy · Skill · 1,356 stars
Deploy Python (Flask/Django/FastAPI) code to Azure App Service Linux. WHEN: \"Flask App Service\", \"Django App Service\", \"FastAPI App Service\", \"deplo
- python-appservice-deploy · Skill · 1,356 stars
Deploy Python (Flask/Django/FastAPI) code to Azure App Service Linux. WHEN: \"Flask App Service\", \"Django App Service\", \"FastAPI App Service\", \"deplo
- skills · Collection · 1,356 stars
- skills · Collection · 1,356 stars
- agent-host-chat-contributions · Skill
Build and review cross-cutting agent-host chat behavior through lifecycle contributions. Use when adding turn lifecycle side effects, prompt or context inj
- azure-kusto-graph · Skill
Build and query Kusto graphs from natural language. Covers transient graphs (make-graph), persistent graph models/snapshots, pattern matching (graph-match)
- azure-kusto-graph-skills · Collection
- azure-kusto-irql · Skill
Compose IRQL (Incident Response Query Language) queries for Kusto cybersecurity investigations. Translates natural language hunting questions into composab
- azure-kusto-irql-graph · Skill
Apply IRQL graph functions to KQL or IRQL query results for Kusto Explorer visualization. Generates Lift_To_Graph mappings and composes Graph_Render_View,
- chat-pet-sprite-creation · Skill
Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions un
- customizations-in-the-agent-host · Skill
Architecture and hard-won debugging lessons for customization enablement (plugins, MCP servers, agents, skills, instructions) in the agent host. Use when c
- feedback-learning · Skill
Classify and record explicit corrective feedback without turning skills or instructions into append-only knowledge dumps.
- policy-and-managed-settings · Skill
Use whenever adding, modifying, or reviewing any Copilot, agent, LLM, AI, tool, permission, sandbox, MCP, model, telemetry, feature-gate, setting, configur
- skills · Collection
- validate-ui-scenario · Skill
Use when reproducing a UI bug or verifying a fix by driving a real VS Code window end to end and capturing evidence. Writes a scenario file, runs it agains