🤖 Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations

A community created collection of custom agents, prompts, and instructions to supercharge your GitHub Copilot experience across different domains, languages, and use cases.

🚀 What is Awesome GitHub Copilot?

This repository provides a comprehensive toolkit for enhancing GitHub Copilot with specialized:

• 👉 Awesome Agents - Specialized GitHub Copilot agents that integrate with MCP servers to provide enhanced capabilities for specific workflows and tools
• 👉 Awesome Prompts - Focused, task-specific prompts for generating code, documentation, and solving specific problems
• 👉 Awesome Instructions - Comprehensive coding standards and best practices that apply to specific file patterns or entire projects
• 👉 Awesome Skills - Self-contained folders with instructions and bundled resources that enhance AI capabilities for specialized tasks
• 👉 Awesome Collections - Curated collections of related prompts, instructions, agents, and skills organized around specific themes and workflows

🌟 Featured Collections

Discover our curated collections of prompts, instructions, and agents organized around specific themes and workflows.

| Name | Description | Items | Tags | | ---- | ----------- | ----- | ---- | | Awesome Copilot | Meta prompts that help you discover and generate curated GitHub Copilot agents, collections, instructions, prompts, and skills. | 5 items | github-copilot, discovery, meta, prompt-engineering, agents | | Copilot SDK | Build applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK across multiple programming languages. Includes comprehensive instructions for C#, Go, Node.js/TypeScript, and Python to help you create AI-powered applications. | 4 items | copilot-sdk, sdk, csharp, go, nodejs, typescript, python, ai, github-copilot | | Partners | Custom agents that have been created by GitHub partners | 20 items | devops, security, database, cloud, infrastructure, observability, feature-flags, cicd, migration, performance |

MCP Server

To make it easy to add these customizations to your editor, we have created a MCP Server that provides a prompt for searching and installing prompts, instructions, agents, and skills directly from this repository. You'll need to have Docker installed and running to run the server.

{
  "servers": {
    "awesome-copilot": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/microsoft/mcp-dotnet-samples/awesome-copilot:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

🔧 How to Use

🤖 Custom Agents

Custom agents can be used in Copilot coding agent (CCA), VS Code, and Copilot CLI (coming soon). For CCA, when assigning an issue to Copilot, select the custom agent from the provided list. In VS Code, you can activate the custom agent in the agents session, alongside built-in agents like Plan and Agent.

🎯 Prompts

Use the / command in GitHub Copilot Chat to access prompts:

/awesome-copilot create-readme

📋 Instructions

Instructions automatically apply to files based on their patterns and provide contextual guidance for coding standards, frameworks, and best practices.

🎯 Why Use Awesome GitHub Copilot?

• Productivity: Pre-built agents, prompts and instructions save time and provide consistent results.
• Best Practices: Benefit from community-curated coding standards and patterns.
• Specialized Assistance: Access expert-level guidance through specialized custom agents.
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest patterns and practices across technologies.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guidelines for details on how to:

• Add new prompts, instructions, agents, or skills
• Improve existing content
• Report issues or suggest enhancements

For AI coding agents working with this project, refer to AGENTS.md for detailed technical guidance on development workflows, setup commands, and contribution standards.

Quick Contribution Guide

1. Follow our file naming conventions and frontmatter requirements
2. Test your contributions thoroughly
3. Update the appropriate README tables
4. Submit a pull request with a clear description

📖 Repository Structure

├── prompts/          # Task-specific prompts (.prompt.md)
├── instructions/     # Coding standards and best practices (.instructions.md)
├── agents/           # AI personas and specialized modes (.agent.md)
├── collections/      # Curated collections of related items (.collection.yml)
├── scripts/          # Utility scripts for maintenance
└── skills/           # AI capabilities for specialized tasks

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🛡️ Security & Support

• Security Issues: Please see our Security Policy
• Support: Check our Support Guide for getting help
• Code of Conduct: We follow the Contributor Covenant

ℹ️ Disclaimer

The customizations in this repository are sourced from and created by third-party developers. GitHub does not verify, endorse, or guarantee the functionality or security of these agents. Please carefully inspect any agent and its documentation before installing to understand permissions it may require and actions it may perform.

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Contributors ✨

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