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MSFT Gold Explore Queue — 21 May 2026

Curated by Atlas after a 2nd-pass scan of mcaps-microsoft (817 repos scanned, 195 name-matches, 121 desc-only matches). This file is the durable list so we don't lose track. Future Personal Atlas Cockpit will have a tab that auto-scans these orgs on a schedule — until then, this manual queue is the source of truth.

Scan recency: all repos below pushed within the last 7 days (most within 2 days). The internal AI-tooling space is moving at ridiculous speed.

🔥 INSTALL THIS WEEK (5 picks, ready to use, immediate leverage)

These are plug-in-and-go — they target real friction in Sush's day job, they're packaged as Copilot CLI plugins or wired-up MCP servers, and they're owned by real people inside MCAPS (not abandoned prototypes).

# Repo One-line Install Why now
1 mcaps-microsoft/MSX-MCP 24 MCP tools + 16 Copilot skills + @msx expert agent — pipeline + ACR cross-ref + milestone coaching + Connect doc gen. Combines MSX Dataverse with Power BI MSXi consumption. copilot plugin install mcaps-microsoft/MSX-MCP Mother lode for Sush's job. Replaces multiple manual MSX clickthroughs.
2 mcaps-microsoft/MSX-Milestones-Skill Owned-only milestone updater. Pulls only YOUR milestones, optional WorkIQ context-grounding, proposes status transitions, per-row confirm before patch. copilot plugin install mcaps-microsoft/MSX-Milestones-Skill Sush touches MSX milestones every week. This is the painful bit, automated safely.
3 mcaps-microsoft/mcp-gateway 1 sign-in instead of 10. MSAL-backed OAuth, WAM-broker silent refresh, fixes cold-start race + mid-session 401s. Already in anz-clawpilot recommendation. See repo README (config-driven, one entry per AAD audience) Once installed, the whole MCP fleet just works. Install pays for itself in week 1.
4 mcaps-microsoft/clawpilot-seismic-bridge In a customer call, ask "latest Power Apps vs Anthropic positioning?" → get the actual deck slide content + speaker notes back. No Playwright, no service principals, uses Sush's already-signed-in Edge session. See repo README (3-step install) Direct customer-call leverage. Cuts "tab to Seismic, search, scroll deck" out of the loop.
5 mcaps-microsoft/iq-core Copilot Chat plugin for fast grounded answers about Azure consumption + MSX/Dataverse CRM workflows. Marketplace + Power BI + Dataverse all wired. copilot plugin install mcaps-microsoft/iq-core Pairs perfectly with MSX-MCP. Different angle (consumption + marketplace), same toolchain.

Install order: mcp-gateway first (fixes the auth pain that the others would otherwise hit), then MSX-MCP, then iq-core, then MSX-Milestones-Skill, then seismic-bridge. ~30 min total if VPN is happy.

🟢 TRY-AND-COMPARE (4 picks, 1–2 weeks of side-by-side evaluation)

These overlap with things Sush either already has or is planning. Run them in parallel for 1–2 weeks before deciding to adopt / merge / pass.

6. mcaps-microsoft/CSA-Sherpa-Agent — v3.64.3 (very mature)

  • What: AI-powered work journal that runs inside Copilot CLI. 30 workflows, 13 skills, 6 personas, 4 MCP integrations. Mountain-climbing metaphor (sunrise / peaks / valleys / summit / journey).
  • Killer feature for Sush: auto-generates Connect self-assessment drafts (connect prep workflow). MSX milestones auto-surface, IDs deep-link to Dataverse records.
  • Overlap: Sush's ~/.copilot/connect-tracking/ system (#connect codeword → rolling-journal.md → cycle archive). Sush already invested in this manually.
  • Decision required: replace ours / merge patterns / keep custom. Don't decide in 5 minutes — try both for a week.

7. mcaps-microsoft/Frontier-Fast-Start

  • What: VS Code-first Copilot wrapper for MSX. Derived from MCAPS-IQ. Reads pipeline, updates CRM (with confirmation), searches M365.
  • Lineage note (from their README): "This repo is derived from the MCAPS-IQ pattern — same agent architecture, skills, and MCP server integrations — repackaged for broader distribution."
  • Overlap: Frontier SE (parallel session is evaluating). Fast-Start = VS Code flavour; Frontier SE = Electron desktop flavour. Both share lineage with MCAPS-IQ.
  • Decision required: Frontier SE vs Frontier-Fast-Start vs PAC. The 3-way comparison is what the parallel session needs to land before PAC mocking starts.

8. mcaps-microsoft/copilot-account-research

  • What: 10 parallel research agents → Microsoft-branded LaTeX/PDF + Beamer slide deck per customer account. ~45–75 min per account.
  • Fit for Sush: Pre-call deep research for the 5 NZ Modern Work accounts SSPs Tam/Riki/Ben are working. Run overnight, get a polished deck by morning.
  • Cost: ~1 hr compute + Azure OpenAI tokens per account. Acceptable if it lands one deal.
  • Try it on: BNZ (active engagement with Yahya), Spark, ASB. One of those three.

9. mcaps-microsoft/MSXelerate (MSXpert)

  • What: Dashboard for SEs to manage milestones, opportunities, pipeline hygiene.
  • Why try: It's the closest existing thing to PAC's MSX tab. Look at it before mocking PAC's MSX screen — either confirm the gap exists or pivot PAC to wrap it.

🔵 ANZ-RELEVANT LEARN-FROM (4 picks, read for patterns)

These are direct parallels to what Sush is building or considering. Read them like architectural references.

10. mcaps-microsoft/belux-clawpilot

  • What: Literally another country's guide on setting up Clawpilot for their region (Belgium + Luxembourg).
  • Anz-Clawpilot parallel: This IS what anz-clawpilot (parked, Wed 27 May reminder) wants to be. Steal structure, voice, governance.
  • Key supporting projects they cite: MSX-MCP, Agency (aka.ms/agency), AI Sales Kit, Clawpilot. All four are in this queue or already in scouting.

11. mcaps-microsoft/uspro-se-toolbox

  • What: US Public Sector Infra SE community toolbox. Agents/skills/prompts/automations/MCP servers/recipes — one canonical home.
  • Governance pattern: maintainer rotates quarterly, CODEOWNERS per folder, office hours every other week aligned to community series.
  • Why this matters for ANZ: if anz-clawpilot ever goes from "Sush's repo" to "ANZ team toolbox", this is the governance blueprint. Read CONTRIBUTING.md.

12. mcaps-microsoft/clawpilot-skills (SMB Clawpilot Skills Marketplace)

  • What: 7 curated skills + GitHub Pages marketplace site + install ZIP. Skills: Portfolio & Account Planning, Customer Meeting Prep, ACR Growth, Funding & Partner Activation, Solution & Value Design, Pipeline & MSX Hygiene, Forecast & Business Review.
  • Two levers:
  • Install the 7 skills directly (~\.copilot\skills\ + restart) — they're general-enough that NZ Sush should benefit from at least 4 of them.
  • Marketplace pattern — if PAC ever ships skills, this is the distribution shape to copy.

13. mcaps-microsoft/Cooking-with-Cowork (TeamSkillTree)

  • What: Inner-source framework for building/testing/distributing Microsoft 365 Copilot skills across orgs.
  • Why read: It's the substrate that could let ANZ ship skills without reinventing the build pipeline. Especially relevant if clawpilot-skills (above) ever gets cloned for ANZ.

🟡 KNOW-IT-EXISTS / future cockpit-scan-tab fodder

Repo One-line Action
mcaps-microsoft/msx-mcp-server Migrated INTO frontier-solution-engineer repo. Standalone repo is now legacy. Note — install path is via Frontier SE now.
mcaps-microsoft/clippy-sales & msx-clippy-sales-belux React/Electron floating "Clippy" that wraps MSX-MCP. Cute, persona-driven. Skim for UX ideas in PAC. Not core.
mcaps-microsoft/msx-kit TypeScript SDK + Desk desktop app. Pre-v1, internal. Substrate — relevant if PAC needs MSX integration TS-side.
mcaps-microsoft/msx-se-whitespace-helper Finds milestone team members across MSX opportunities. One-purpose tool. Install if doing whitespace analysis.
mcaps-microsoft/copilot-cli-workshop Field Days workshop content (45-min talk + hands-on). Skim for the 3 reusable patterns (CLI as local assistant / WorkIQ / Playwright MCP).
mcaps-microsoft/snappy-copilot-config Snap Copilot config hosting. (No README accessible.) Skip for now.
mcaps-microsoft/Frontier-Six (hackathon team) RCG Hackathon May 29 team repo. Watch the demo when it lands.
mcaps-microsoft/agentops-toolkit CLI to evaluate AI agents. If PAC ever ships agents, this is the eval layer.
mcaps-microsoft/ise-agent-eval-framework Eval framework for agentic systems. Same as above — eval substrate.
mcaps-microsoft/ai-sales-kit Already known. AGENTIC sales toolkit. 26 skills, 7 Agent365 HTTP MCPs. Confirmed cited by belux-clawpilot — bigger deal than I tagged it.

How this changes Personal Atlas Cockpit (PAC)

It doesn't change Phase 0 (mockups only, locked decisions stand). But it sharpens PAC's positioning.

What we now know exists in the same space: - Frontier SE (Electron desktop) — already being evaluated in parallel session. - Frontier-Fast-Start (VS Code wrapper, MCAPS-IQ-derived) — same DNA. - MSX-IQ (Electron app, MCAPS sellers) — direct sibling. - MSXelerate (dashboard for SEs) — closest existing match to PAC's MSX tab. - CSA-Sherpa-Agent (CLI work journal) — overlaps with PAC's "Today" + Connect tabs. - uspro-se-toolbox (community pattern) — pattern PAC could publish into.

PAC's unique positioning becomes clearer: - The above are all terminal-or-Electron surfaces. PAC's menubar/tray + popover surface is the gap nobody else has filled. - PAC's "Today" popover is always-visible, glance-only. Frontier SE / MSX-IQ / Sherpa want you to type at them. PAC wants you to glance. - The 4 visual directions Sush will mock in the next session (TARS Console / Paper Cockpit / Linear Dense / Mission Departure Board) become more important — because the aesthetic is one of PAC's few defensible differentiators.

Recommended addendum to PAC spec: the Daily Brief + MSX tab in PAC should be a thin shell that surfaces the OUTPUT of MSX-MCP + iq-core + (maybe) Sherpa, not duplicate their query logic. PAC = orchestrator + glance surface. Workers = MSX-MCP + iq-core + WorkIQ.

Future cockpit auto-scan-tab spec (rough)

Once PAC v1 ships, add a "Scout" tab that does what I just did manually:

  • Schedule: weekly cron, Sunday morning
  • Scope: mcaps-microsoft + ms-copilot + microsoft + Azure-Samples + OfficeDev orgs
  • Filter: repos pushed in last 7 days where name OR description matches a watch-list of keywords (msx, copilot, clawpilot, skill, agent, seismic, connect, pipeline, mcp, digital natives, cooking, etc.)
  • Diff: what's new since last week's scan
  • Score: title + first 200 chars of README → Azure OpenAI → "leverage score 1–10 for an NZ Copilot SE" + 2-sentence verdict
  • Output: push top-5 weekly scout digest into PAC's "Today" popover as a "What's new this week internally?" card
  • One-click: "Try this" button → kicks off copilot plugin install <repo> in a new terminal

This is the killer differentiator PAC could ship that nothing else above does — none of the existing tools auto-discover and triage internal MSFT tooling for you.

What I did NOT scan

  • microsoftgraph (mostly SDK churn — low signal)
  • MicrosoftDocs (docs, not tools)
  • MSFTOSS (mostly old open-source releases)
  • Azure (huge, mostly infra — not Sush's seam)
  • Internal-only EMU orgs Sush isn't a member of (e.g. anything that requires explicit MSFT-internal SSO beyond ssutheesh_microsoft)
  • ms-copilot (only 4 repos, mostly inactive — covered in prior session)

Next pass (or PAC scout-tab) should cover the gaps above.

🟦 Scout adds — 1 Jun 2026 (Atlas batch triage from 15e1d76a handoff)

Surfaced as carry-forward in next-session handoff. EMU auth resolved earlier 404s; descriptions probed via gh repo view mcaps-microsoft/<repo>.

Repo One-line Verdict Why this lane
mcaps-microsoft/rob-dashboards Industry Advisors weekly ROB dashboards (FSI / M&M / HLS verticals) 🟡 KNOW-IT-EXISTS ROB context is industry-advisor-side, not SE-side. atlas-portfolio already covers Sush's daily ROB shape via Pulse Brief + per-customer atlas-brief. Skim quarterly for FSI patterns reusable in NZ banking customers.
mcaps-microsoft/polaris Dashboard + agent for Revenue Forecasting, Pipeline, Margin Analysis, Snapshots, Executive insights · revenue-by-DME, engagement-level trends 🔵 LEARN-FROM Closest sibling to atlas-portfolio's Pulse + Pipeline tabs but oriented to management consolidation, not SE daily-driver. Read for the revenue-by-DME pattern and the engagement-trend signal shape. Don't adopt — atlas-portfolio's bento+pulse story is purpose-fit for Sush's seam.
mcaps-microsoft/AItomium Belux AITomium skills repository 🟡 KNOW-IT-EXISTS Sibling of clawpilot-skills (#12) and belux-clawpilot (#10) — same region-flavour skill-pack pattern. ANZ doesn't have an equivalent today. Watch as a pattern source if anz-clawpilot returns from park (Wed 27 May reminder).
mcaps-microsoft/project-phoenix-core Core service monorepo for Project Phoenix Planning Rethink 🟡 KNOW-IT-EXISTS Internal MS planning-system project (not Copilot-presales seam). Watchlist only — surface if/when Phoenix touches MSX or surfaces to SEs as a customer-facing motion.

Already in queue — re-confirmed 1 Jun 2026, no triage delta: - mcaps-microsoft/clawpilot-skills — at row #12 (LEARN-FROM section). 7-skill marketplace pattern. Still valid. - mcaps-microsoft/msx-kit — at KNOW-IT-EXISTS table row. TypeScript MSX SDK + Desk desktop app, pre-v1. Still valid.

Net add: 4 new entries. None reach INSTALL or TRY-AND-COMPARE — closest is polaris (LEARN-FROM, read for patterns). The internal AI-tooling space remains active; next Monday scouting sweep can re-pass.