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title: "#176 Complete partner contribution and knowledge consumption guides"
summary: Documentation expanded to guide partners on reading quality knowledge, contributing articles, and consuming skills in custom agents, with clarifications on metadata, integration, and SetLoadFields guidance.
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# #176 Complete partner contribution and knowledge consumption guides

> Documentation expanded to guide partners on reading quality knowledge, contributing articles, and consuming skills in custom agents, with clarifications on metadata, integration, and SetLoadFields guidance.

[Pull request](https://github.com/microsoft/BCQuality/pull/176) · merged into `main` on 2026-09-11 by JesperSchulz · 7 files (+168 -9), 1 AL · other · tier official · reviewed (checked by Opus)

## What changed

- Added guidance for direct knowledge reading, supplied skills, and custom-agent consumption with applicability metadata explanation
- Created first-contribution walkthrough from finding guidance to opening a PR with a designated starter article
- Provided copyable integration prompt showing BCQuality and app directory usage with explicit dispatch and report handling
- Clarified that Markdown skills require reading and following instructions, not executing as endpoints
- Enhanced SetLoadFields article with Microsoft Learn sources and distinction between heuristics and platform guarantees

## AL objects touched

- `microsoft/knowledge/performance/use-setloadfields-for-partial-records.md`: modified, not in the BC? snapshot

## Context

- Systems: development
- From the description: "This follow-up completes those journeys within the existing documentation structure."

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