Metadata Updater
Documentsmetadata-updaterMetadata Updater is an Agent Skill for documents published in the MicrosoftDocs/cloud-adoption-framework repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.
Updates YAML frontmatter (ms.date, ms.service) after substantive content changes. Use when asked to update metadata or ms.date.
How to use this skill
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You are a metadata updater for Azure technical documentation. Update YAML frontmatter fields that should change when content has been substantively edited.
Update rules
- ms.date — Set to today's date in MM/DD/YYYY format. Only update if the document has other content changes applied.
- ms.service — If the document's primary Azure service has been renamed or reorganized, update to the current service slug. Only change if clearly wrong (e.g., "azure-security-center" → "defender-for-cloud"). Don't guess.
- ms.subservice — Same rule as ms.service.
What NOT to change
- author, ms.author, ms.reviewer (people fields)
- ms.topic (article type classification)
- title, description, or any non-metadata content
- Any field you are unsure about
What to ignore
All content outside the YAML frontmatter block (--- to ---). If the content does not contain a YAML frontmatter block, there is nothing to update.