awesome-copilot-agents
✨ A curated list of awesome GitHub instructions, prompt, skills, MCPs and agent markdown files for enhancing your GitHub Copilot AI experience.
Install / Use
npx skills add Code-and-Sorts/awesome-copilot-agentsInstalls into whichever agent you are using.
Copilot Instructions
GitHub Copilot instructions
Quality Score
Category
Content & MediaSupported Platforms
Our assessment of awesome-copilot-agents
awesome-copilot-agents scores 80/100 on our quality scale, 1042nd of 1,178 Content & Media skills we index.
Its Copilot Instructions is 17 KB long, well organised into 53 sections and no code examples: a thorough specification that gives an agent plenty to work with.
It has 593 GitHub stars, a meaningful sign that others use it.
Maintenance, license and trust
- The repository was last updated about 6 months ago. That is recent enough to be usable, but agent tooling moves fast, so check the instructions against your agent's current version.
- Our last check on 2026-10-18 found the source still online.
- It is released under the CC0-1.0 license, a permissive license that allows use, modification and commercial use with attribution.
- Its trust signals score 94/100, with 1 caution from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.
Safety scan
No issues foundOur scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful.
AI review by kimi-k2.7-code on 2026-09-24. Automated pattern scan on 2026-09-24. It catches known dangerous patterns, not every risk — read a skill before letting an agent act on it.
awesome-copilot-agents compared with similar skills
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| Skill | Score | Stars | Updated | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| awesome-copilot-agents (this skill)by Code-and-Sorts | 80 | 593 | 6mo ago | Copilot Instructions |
| Agent-Reachby Panniantong | 100 | 109.8k | 1d ago | CLAUDE.md |
| headroomby headroomlabs-ai | 100 | 79.1k | today | CLAUDE.md |
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| Scraplingby D4Vinci | 100 | 99.1k | 1d ago | MCP Server |
Frequently asked questions
- How do I install awesome-copilot-agents?
- Run
npx skills add Code-and-Sorts/awesome-copilot-agents. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent. - Which AI agents does awesome-copilot-agents work with?
- It is written for GitHub Copilot, as a Copilot Instructions file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
- Is awesome-copilot-agents safe to use?
- Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. An AI review of the same text found nothing harmful. It is CC0-1.0-licensed and scores 94/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
- Is awesome-copilot-agents still maintained?
- The repository was last updated about 6 months ago. That is recent enough to be usable, but agent tooling moves fast, so check the instructions against your agent's current version.
Skill content
View source on GitHubContents
Why Copilot Agents
Customized instructions, prompts, agent skills, agent MCPs and custom agents help guide GitHub Copilot by providing contextual details about your repository such as the type of workflow your team follows, tools and other project specific details such as coding style, frameworks used or project specific rules.
Tip: Learn more about customizing GitHub Copilot in VS Code in the VS Code documentation.
Instructions
Instructions provides Copilot with repository-specific context, such as coding standards, frameworks, or workflows, to improve code suggestions.
Boilerplates & Templates
Templates
- General Language - Standard language template to build instruction files.
Boilerplate
- Standard IaC Tools Boilerplate - Standard tool boilerplate for infrastructure-as-code tools.
Language & Stack
C
- Standard Focus - System libraries, CLI tools, and embedded applications with POSIX/GNU libc.
C-Sharp
- Standard Focus - .NET applications with modern C# patterns and best practices.
C++
- Standard Focus - Modern C++ development with STL, RAII, and performance optimization.
Go
- Standard Focus - Go for microservices, CLI tools, and concurrent applications.
Java
- Standard Focus - Enterprise Java development with Spring framework and modern patterns.
JavaScript
- Standard Focus - Modern JavaScript with ES6+, Node.js, and browser development.
Kotlin
- Standard Focus - Kotlin for Android development and multi-platform projects.
Lua
- Standard Focus - Lua scripting for embedded systems, game development, and automation.
Python
- Standard Focus - Python development for web applications, data science, and automation.
Rust
- Standard Focus - Systems programming with Rust's ownership model and memory safety.
Swift
- Standard Focus - iOS and macOS development with Swift and SwiftUI.
TypeScript
- Standard Focus - TypeScript development for web and Node.js applications.
Framework / Library
Cobra CLI (Go)
- Charmbracelet Bubbles CLI - Interactive terminal applications with Charm's Bubble Tea framework and Golang Cobra CLI.
Node.js (TypeScript)
- Azure Function App - Azure Function Apps using TypeScript Node.js.
- Express API - REST API development with Express.js and TypeScript Node.js.
Tools
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Drupal
- Standard Focus for Drupal 11 - Drupal 11 module and theme development.
Infra as Code (IaC)
Terraform
- Standard Focus - Standard Terraform instructions.
- Atmos - Terraform workflow orchestration with Atmos framework.
Workflows
AI Development Instructions
A comprehensive workflow for AI-assisted development featuring structured approaches to planning, task generation, and execution.
- PRD Creation - Create detailed Product Requirements Documents.
- Task Generation - Break PRDs into actionable development tasks.
- Task Execution - Systematic task execution with proper testing and Git practices.
Prompts
Prompts are reusable tasks or workflow instructions that help guide Copilot to perform specific actions or generate certain outputs.
AI Development Tasks
A comprehensive workflow for AI-assisted development featuring structured approaches to planning, task generation, and execution.
- PRD Creation Prompt - Create detailed Product Requirements Documents using prompt tasks.
- Task Generation Prompt - Break PRDs into actionable development tasks using prompt tasks.
- Task Execution Prompt - Systematic task execution with proper testing and Git practices using prompt tasks.
Custom Agents
Custom agents let you set up different AI personas in VS Code for specific dev roles (like security reviewer, planner, or architect), each with its own instructions, tools, and behavior. You can also use handoffs to move between these specialized agents in a guided workflow (e.g., planning → implementation → review) with relevant context carried over.
The built-in available custom agents are:
- Agent
- Ask
- Edit
- Plan
- AIAgentExpert
- Configure Custom Agents (create your own)
AI Development Mode
- Architect - Design and plan software systems.
- Clean Code - Write clean, readable, and maintainable code using clean code best practices.
- Debugger - Debug your application code to find a fix.
- PRD Creation - Build Product Requirements Document (PRD).
Agent Skills
Agent Skills are portable, open standard, version-controlled folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that agents can discover and load on demand to do tasks more accurately and efficiently. They let agents gain domain expertise, new capabilities, and repeatable workflows—while making those same skills reusable across different compatible agent products and teams.
General
- Calculator - Performs arbitrary-precision arithmetic calculations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponents.
- Jira CLI - Interact with Jira from the command line to create, list, view, edit, and transition issues, manage sprints and epics, and perform common Jira workflows.
- Skill Creator - Create new skills, modify and improve existing skills, and measure skill performance.
Documents
- docx - Document creation, editing, and analysis with support for tracked changes, comments, formatting preservation, and text extraction.
- pdf - PDF manipulation toolkit for extracting text and tables, creating new PDFs, merging/splitting documents, and handling forms.
- pptx - Presentation creation, editing, and analysis.
- xlsx - Spreadsheet creation, editing, and analysis with support for formulas, formatting, data analysis, and visualization.
Cloud
- Az CLI - Azure CLI documentation to execute or ask about Azure CLI commands.
- Azure Prices - Look up and compare
Truncated for display — read the full file on GitHub.
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Languages
Trust signals
From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.