[QUESTION] How to install the Skills for fabric-cli and keep them updated?

[frithjofv]

Question

Hi,

I noticed the .ai-assets folder contains well-structured skills, prompts, and Copilot-related assets for working with the Fabric CLI.

However, these assets are not available when installing the CLI via pip install ms-fabric-cli, and they don’t appear to be automatically usable with tools like GitHub Copilot CLI or VS Code Copilot without manual setup.

Is there a recommended workflow for consuming these assets locally?

For example:

• Should users manually copy skills into .github/skills or another location?
• Or could you bundle these skills together with skills-for-fabric? https://github.com/microsoft/skills-for-fabric/

Context

Using GitHub Copilot CLI with fabric-cli

fabric-cli version (if relevant)

1.5.0

Operating System (if relevant)

Windows

CLI Mode (if relevant)

Not applicable

Have you checked the documentation?

• I have searched existing GitHub issues
• I have reviewed the fabric-cli documentation

Additional Information

No response

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[github-actions]

AI Assessment: Requires Additional Details

The .ai-assets folder is not documented as part of the official ms-fabric-cli CLI distribution or workflow. There is no recommended, supported method for integrating its contents with GitHub Copilot CLI or VS Code Copilot as part of the installation process. Usage of Copilot-related skills outside the CLI is not formally described in the CLI docs nor referenced in the Codebase Reference.

To advise on manual setup or integration (such as copying into .github/skills or using with skills-for-fabric), I need more information:

• What specific assets or file types from .ai-assets are you intending to use?
• What is your goal: skill usage in Copilot CLI, skill autocompletion, or guided workflow with Fabric CLI commands?
• Are you following a documented GitHub Copilot CLI workflow, or is this an experimental use case?

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[frithjofv]

I want the skills and guidelines to be available to GitHub Copilot CLI when GitHub Copilot CLI is using fabric-cli on my behalf. I am using GitHub Copilot CLI in VS Code.

Is there a recommended way to install the fabric-cli Skills in my local environment and keeping them automatically updated?