Awesome GitHub Copilot
GitHub’s community collection of Copilot instructions, agents, skills, hooks, workflows and plugins.
About Awesome GitHub Copilot
A community-created collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows, and plugins to supercharge your GitHub Copilot experience. It includes specialised Copilot agents that integrate with MCP servers, instructions (coding standards applied automatically by file pattern), skills (self-contained folders with instructions and bundled assets), plugins (curated bundles of agents and skills for specific workflows) and a cookbook of copy-paste recipes for the Copilot APIs. Details were read from the publisher’s repository and documentation; nothing was installed or executed.
What you can do
- Copilot instructions by file pattern
- Custom Copilot agents
- Skills, hooks and plugins
- API cookbook
Rules file
- Format
- Instruction file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .cursorrules or similar)
- Works with
- GitHub Copilot
- License
- MIT
How to install
From the publisher
Copy an instructions file into .github/ of your repository (for example .github/copilot-instructions.md), or install the agents, skills and plugins as the repository README describes.
How do I use Awesome GitHub Copilot?
The publisher’s steps are shown above. Copy the file into the place your agent reads: CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md at the repository root, .cursorrules or .cursor/rules/ for Cursor, .github/copilot-instructions.md for GitHub Copilot. Then edit it for your project.
Which agents read Awesome GitHub Copilot?
The publisher lists GitHub Copilot.
Is it free?
Open source; free to run yourself.
Questions and answers
What is Awesome GitHub Copilot?
Awesome GitHub Copilot is a rules file in the Developer tools category. GitHub’s community collection of Copilot instructions, agents, skills, hooks, workflows and plugins.
How do I use Awesome GitHub Copilot?
Copy the file into the place your agent reads: CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md at the repository root, .cursorrules or .cursor/rules/ for Cursor, .github/copilot-instructions.md for GitHub Copilot. Then edit it for your project. The publisher's steps: Copy an instructions file into .github/ of your repository (for example .github/copilot-instructions.md), or install the agents, skills and plugins as the repository README describes.
Is Awesome GitHub Copilot free?
Open source; free to run yourself.
What can Awesome GitHub Copilot do?
According to the published details: Copilot instructions by file pattern; Custom Copilot agents; Skills, hooks and plugins; API cookbook.
Which agents or platforms work with Awesome GitHub Copilot?
The publisher lists GitHub Copilot.
Where is Awesome GitHub Copilot published?
Its homepage is https://awesome-copilot.github.com/ and its source repository is https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot. RUAGENTIC read these details from Publisher repository on October 1, 2026 and did not install or run the project.
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