Agent skill · microsoft
feature-tryouts
Use when adding, reviewing, or troubleshooting an interactive release-note Try This experience, including commands, views, editor samples, Chat drafts, guided spotlights, prerequisites, scoped targets, or Agents-window handoff.
What it needs
About 6k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
Feature tryouts Feature tryouts connect release-note links to trusted product interactions. Use this skill to choose the least invasive useful experience, keep behavior feature-owned, bind guidance to the correct UI instance, fail closed, and validate the real journey. The authoritative contributor contract is src/vs/workbench/contrib/onboarding/README.md. Read it before implementation. This skill owns the execution workflow and must not duplicate a catalogue of current tryouts. 1. Classify the experience Choose the least invasive level that provides value: Level Use when --- --- Try it Behavior can be prepared safely with isolated data Guide me Opening and highlighting a real control is sufficient Help me get ready The user must perform a prerequisite Use my context The action must bind to an exact editor, session, or widget Explain only Interaction would be unsafe, misleading, or impossible A spotlight alone can be useful. A tryout does not need to reproduce the complete feature. 2. Establish ownership and side effects Before editing, answer: 1. What useful state should the user reach? 2. Which component owns that behavior? 3. What may the tryout change? 4. What must remain an explicit user action? 5. What prerequisites can be missing? 6. Can several matching controls be visible? 7. Does preparation need an exact editor, session, or widget? 8. Does execution cross into the Agents window? 9. Is this an AI feature subject to Chat, provider, model, workspace, or managed-policy gates? 10. How will cancellation suppress late asynchronous effects? Prefer feature-owned contributions and commands. Shared onboarding code should provide reusable lifecycle and presentation primitives, not feature policy. 3. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills microsoft/feature-tryouts