cloud-design-patterns

🤖 Awesome GitHub Copilot

A community created collection of custom agents 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 Instructions - Comprehensive coding standards and best practices that apply to specific file patterns or entire projects
• 👉 Awesome Hooks - Automated workflows triggered by specific events during development, testing, and deployment
• 👉 Awesome Agentic Workflows - AI-powered repository automations that run coding agents in GitHub Actions with natural language instructions
• 👉 Awesome Skills - Self-contained folders with instructions and bundled resources that enhance AI capabilities for specialized tasks
• 👉 Awesome Plugins - Curated plugins of related agents and skills organized around specific themes and workflows
• 👉 Awesome Cookbook Recipes - Practical, copy-paste-ready code snippets and real-world examples for working with GitHub Copilot tools and features

🌟 Featured Plugins

Discover our curated plugins of agents and skills organized around specific themes and workflows.

How to Install Customizations

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

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

📄 llms.txt

An llms.txt file following the llmstxt.org specification is available on the GitHub Pages site. This machine-readable file makes it easy for Large Language Models to discover and understand all available agents, instructions, and skills, providing a structured overview of the repository's resources with names and descriptions.

🔧 How to Use

🔌 Plugins

Plugins are installable packages that bundle related agents and skills, making it easy to install a curated set of resources.

Installing Plugins

First, add the Awesome Copilot marketplace to your Copilot CLI:

copilot plugin marketplace add github/awesome-copilot

Then install any plugin:

copilot plugin install <plugin-name>@awesome-copilot