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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.

Open in Claude176.mdPull request #176

Pull request · 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.”

Source: metadata of a merged pull request in microsoft/BCQuality (bcquality): title, labels, changed paths and counts, with a summary in our words. No source text and no description beyond one short quote (D10, D61).