🤖 Awesome GitHub Copilot for Testers

This repository is a collection of resources (prompts, instructions, custom agents, agent skills, hooks, plugins, and orchestration examples) for using GitHub Copilot to enhance test automation and quality engineering workflows.

It is designed to help testers, developers, and quality engineers leverage AI to improve their testing practices, automate repetitive tasks, and enhance the overall quality of software products.

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• 🇬🇧 English
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[!TIP] This project is heavily inspired by Awesome GitHub Copilot - a curated list of resources for using GitHub Copilot effectively. We have adapted the structure and content to focus specifically on testing and quality engineering, providing tailored resources for this domain.

Table of Contents

• 🎯 GitHub Copilot Customization Features
  • 📋 Resources
    • Custom Instructions
    • Custom Prompt Templates
    • Custom Chat Modes (Deprecated)
    • Custom Agents
    • Agent Orchestration
    • Custom Sets
    • Agent Skills
    • Hooks
    • Plugins
  • 📚 Additional Resources
  • 🌱 Contributing
  • 📞 Contact & Support
• 📚 Learning Resources
  • 🇵🇱 Polish Resources
  • 🇬🇧 English Resources

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🎯 GitHub Copilot Customization Features

GitHub Copilot provides three main ways to customize AI responses and tailor assistance to your specific workflows, team guidelines, and project requirements:

• Custom Instructions: Define how Copilot should behave, what to prioritize, and how to communicate.
• Chat Modes: Create specialized chat modes for different roles or tasks, each with its own set of tools and instructions. With version 1.106 of VS Code, Chat Modes were renamed to Custom Agents.
• Custom Agents: Advanced chat modes that can utilize multiple instructions and tools to perform complex tasks.
• Prompt Templates: Predefined templates for common tasks or questions, allowing for quick and consistent responses.

[!TIP] More You can learn about these features in the official documentation and:

• VS Code Copilot Customization Documentation - Official Microsoft documentation
• Custom Instructions - Tailor Copilot's behavior
• Custom Chat Modes - Advanced chat configuration
• Custom Instructions - Customize Copilot's behavior
• Prompt Files - Using prompt templates
• Custom Agents - Advanced agent configuration
• Agent Skills - Extend agent capabilities with skills
• Hooks - Customize agent behavior with hooks
• Using agents in Visual Studio Code - Overview of agents and orchestration
• Subagents in Visual Studio Code - Using subagents for specialized tasks

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📋 Resources

Custom Instructions

[!TIP] Usage:

• copy these instructions to your .github/copilot-instructions.md file or
• create task-specific .github/.instructions.md files in your workspace's .github/instructions folder
• use Chat: Attach Instructions command from the command palette to apply them in the current chat

<!-- START_CUSTOM_INSTRUCTIONS -->

| Title | Description | Install | | ----- | ----------- | ------- | | 🤖 Custom Instructions for Testers | One-line intent of the rules | | | API test rules (Playwright + TypeScript) | API test rules for Playwright + TypeScript: HTTP semantics, contract assertions, typed clients, data isolation, and flakiness prevention. | | | Playwright E2E rules | Playwright E2E test rules: test intent, isolation, locator strategy, waiting discipline, flake prevention, and diagnostics. | | | Page Objects / App Actions rules (Playwright + TS) | Page Object Model conventions for Playwright + TypeScript: structure, locators, actions, waits, and composition rules. | | | Playwright Typescript | Playwright test generation instructions with best practices and patterns. | | | TypeScript style rules | TypeScript style rules: explicit types at API boundaries, typed errors, import hygiene, and async conventions. | |

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Custom Prompt Templates

[!TIP] Usage:

• copy these prompts to your .github/copilot-prompts/ folder
• use /prompt-name in VS Code chat,
• run Chat: Run Prompt command from the command palette

<!-- START_CUSTOM_PROMPT_TEMPLATES -->

| Title | Description | Install | | ----- | ----------- | ------- | | Accessibility audit — deep dive | Run a deeper accessibility audit for a page, sampled set of pages, or user flow with WCAG 2.2 mapping, manual verification guidance, and technical or stakeholder-ready output. For a quick single-URL check, use the a11y-webpage-audit prompt instead. | | | A11y webpage audit (single URL) | Analyze one webpage for accessibility with WCAG 2.1/2.2 m