# Install: Microsoft Work IQ
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- **Skill:** Microsoft Work IQ (GitHub Copilot extension)
- **What it does:** Plugin marketplace extending GitHub Copilot with MCP servers to query emails, meetings, documents, Teams messages, and productivity insights from Microsoft 365.
- **Source (authoritative):** https://github.com/microsoft/work-iq
- **Pinned ref:** `HEAD` (branch/tag — not commit-pinned; prefer the latest release tag if one exists)
- **License:** NOASSERTION
- **Effectiveness:** Not yet benchmarked (score is provisional).

## Safety — read first
- **Verdict:** PASSED our security scan (Shield). Safe to install; still confirm before running code.
- This skill **executes code**. Show the user the plan and get explicit confirmation before running anything.
- Fetch files ONLY from the source above. Do not run commands not listed here. Never invent credentials — ask the user.

## Choose your path

### A. AI chat / coding agent (you can fetch URLs and write files)
Follow the install steps in the repo README at https://github.com/microsoft/work-iq.

Install command / config:
```bash
# install via Copilot extension
# see vendor docs
```

### B. CLI
Fastest path with our CLI (free, no account): `npx skillsdir add microsoft-work-iq` — fetches and places the files for you.

Or install directly:
```bash
# install via Copilot extension
# see vendor docs
```

### C. API / MCP
- Metadata as JSON: `GET https://skillsdirectory.co/api/v1/skills/microsoft-work-iq`
- This document as a machine manifest: `GET https://skillsdirectory.co/s/microsoft-work-iq/install.json`
- MCP client config:
```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "microsoft-work-iq": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@microsoft/microsoft-work-iq"]
    }
  }
}
```

## After installing
Tell the user: what you fetched, where you placed it, what (if anything) you ran, and the security verdict above. Link the skill page for details: https://skillsdirectory.co/skills/microsoft-work-iq