institutional-knowledge

Extract and preserve a departing senior leader's institutional knowledge — projects, decisions, rationale, relationships, tribal knowledge — into a structured, multi-phase archive built from M365 signals (emails, Teams, meetings, SharePoint/OneDrive). Resumable across multiple sessions. Use when the user asks to "build an institutional knowledge archive", "preserve institutional knowledge", "capture a departing leader's knowledge", "run a knowledge extraction for an executive handoff", "document a leadership transition before someone retires", or otherwise to capture/preserve a specific leader's decision history and expertise before they leave. Do not trigger on incidental mentions of someone retiring, leaving, or being out of office.

Agent Skill from microsoft/cat-agent-skills

Copilot Studio

Passes documented load rules

No documented load rule failed.

Microsoft 365 Copilot Preview, Frontier tenants only

Needs changes

Fails: Instructions are under 20,000 characters (M365-INSTRUCTIONS)
instructions are 24,523 characters
rule · Microsoft 365 Copilot: What is a skill

An agent can have at most 8 skills. Custom skills aren't available in tenants that use Microsoft Purview Information Barriers.

Compatible isn't the same as safe. These verdicts only say whether a skill's files follow Microsoft's documented load rules. The checker reads files and never runs them, and it doesn't review what a skill or its scripts actually do. Read a skill's instructions and scripts before you add it to an agent.

Standards signals

Meets the agentskills.io required fields.

Frontmatter	Present and parsed Spec: frontmatter
name	Meets the spec (1-64 chars, a-z 0-9 hyphens) Spec: name
description	Present, 1-1,024 characters Spec: description
compatibility	Absent or under 500 characters Spec: compatibility
Name matches folder	Yes (`institutional-knowledge`) Spec: name

Observed from the public SKILL.md at the commit above on 2026-10-24. Not a certification: AAIF and the Agent Skills project don't certify skills. Validate your own skill with skills-ref validate.

Source repo	microsoft/cat-agent-skills
Path	submissions/institutional-knowledge/SKILL.md
Commit checked	`5c8cad25a6f1`
Repo license	MIT
Files	3
Scripts	None
Instructions	24,523 characters
Deepest folder	0 below the skill folder
Installs (skills.sh)	6
Rules version	2026-10-22

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