Beside the skills: one plugin is on the shelf, and one MCP connection is waiting for review.
Three ways in — prompted, adapted, or recorded — and one governed skill lifecycle. Member-made skills stay in maker review until a leader publishes them.
Your organization's own GitHub holds the files; Aristo holds the index and the receipts.
3 skills on the shelf · 1 awaiting review · 1 refused at the door · 1 plugin on the shelf · 1 MCP connection awaiting review
GitHub documents that Copilot reads project skills from a repository's .github/skills folder, so a skill on your organization's shelf is readable by every agent that opens that repository — GitHub Copilot, VS Code, JetBrains and Claude Code alike.
Who may publish
Leaders and sponsors. A member asks, and a leader approves — the same two pairs of eyes as before.
Reviewed before it lands
Yes — every version waits for your organization's reviewer.
Your organization requires two-factor sign-in
Yes
Your organization requires a review
Yes
Files your organization blocks
Your organization blocks file kinds of its own on top of Aristo's rules.
Members of the connected GitHub organization
240
On your organization's shelf
Skills are reusable instructions, not agent packages, so they do not enter the Agent Forge promotion board.
The maker creates one portable SKILL.md.
The safety sweep and quality rubric run before saving.
A member copy stays private until its maker asks and a leader approves.
Downloads and confirmed OneDrive pushes are counted.
1 in maker review · 5 offered to the organization. A leader can withdraw an organization skill to stop new shelf access; copies already downloaded or placed in OneDrive cannot be recalled.
Prompted here
2
1 ship-ready
Found and adapted
2
2 ship-ready
Recorded once
2
2 ship-ready
Taken by somebody
3
downloaded or Graph-confirmed push
Awaiting first recorded use
3
exists, but nobody has taken it
Movement
1 more taking than last month.
2026-09 vs 2026-08
In a connected tenant, a signed-in leader can paste or upload the recorder's SKILL.md here. This illustrative scenario is read-only, so it shows the governed shelf without offering a write that would pretend to work.
The recording happens on your own machine — the recorder captures your screen locally.
Its Analyze step is the part to know about: that one sends screen frames, window titles and URLs, and your spoken narration to GitHub’s cloud to turn the demonstration into a skill.
So never record credentials, secrets, or a screen with tenant-sensitive data on it. Record the job, not the sign-in.
Aristo never receives or stores a recording. The only thing that reaches us is the finished SKILL.md you choose to bring — that is true by architecture, not by policy.
Recorded once
Turns a meeting transcript into owners, dates and the three actions that matter, ready to paste into Planner.
4 measured takings · Microsoft Skill Recorder export · illustrative scenario
On your organization's shelf · version 3 · published by the leader · readable by every agent that opens it
Prompted here
Finds the closest approved answer to each RFP question in past proposals and says where it came from.
3 measured takings · Created in Aristo · illustrative scenario
On your organization's shelf · version 2 · published by the leader · readable by every agent that opens it
Found and adapted
Walks the finance close step by step and says which step is waiting on which team.
2 measured takings · Approved internal skill library · illustrative scenario
On your organization's shelf · version 1 · published by the leader · readable by every agent that opens it
Recorded once
Rewrites a customer email in the house tone — warm, plain, one ask — without changing what it promises.
No measured taking yet — awaiting first use · Microsoft Skill Recorder export · illustrative scenario
On your organization's shelf · version 1 · awaiting review
Found and adapted
Checks a trip request against the travel policy and lists what needs an approval before booking.
No measured taking yet — awaiting first use · Approved internal skill library · illustrative scenario
Not published — Programs and installers never go on the shelf.
Prompted here
Draft skill held in its maker's review: its escalation and source-boundary instructions are incomplete.
No measured taking yet — awaiting first use · Created in Aristo · illustrative scenario
There are no per-person rows here. Maker cohorts remain subject to the 5-person privacy floor, and a skill is never called “used” merely because it exists.