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GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/cli-mastery/SKILL.md
Interactive training for the GitHub Copilot CLI. Guided lessons, quizzes, scenario challenges, and a full reference covering slash commands, shortcuts, modes, agents, skills, MCP, and configuration. Say "cliexpert" to start.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/cloud-design-patterns/SKILL.md
Cloud design patterns for distributed systems architecture covering 42 industry-standard patterns across reliability, performance, messaging, security, and deployment categories. Use when designing, reviewing, or implementing distributed system architectures.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/codebase-memory-mcp/SKILL.md
Use when exploring unfamiliar code, mapping architecture, finding symbols or relationships, tracing callers, callees, data flow or dependencies, assessing impact, auditing dead or complex code, or handling explicit Codebase Memory requests. Otherwise skip tasks confined to a supplied known file, tiny one-file check, exact literal, configuration value, error string, or non-code text.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/code-exemplars-blueprint-generator/SKILL.md
Technology-agnostic prompt generator that creates customizable AI prompts for scanning codebases and identifying high-quality code exemplars. Supports multiple programming languages (.NET, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Python) with configurable analysis depth, categorization methods, and documentation formats to establish coding standards and maintain consistency across development teams.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/codeql/SKILL.md
Comprehensive guide for setting up and configuring CodeQL code scanning via GitHub Actions workflows and the CodeQL CLI. This skill should be used when users need help with code scanning configuration, CodeQL workflow files, CodeQL CLI commands, SARIF output, security analysis setup, or troubleshooting CodeQL analysis.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/code-tour/SKILL.md
Use this skill to create CodeTour .tour files — persona-targeted, step-by-step walkthroughs that link to real files and line numbers. Trigger for: "create a tour", "make a code tour", "generate a tour", "onboarding tour", "tour for this PR", "tour for this bug", "RCA tour", "architecture tour", "explain how X works", "vibe check", "PR review tour", "contributor guide", "help someone ramp up", or any request for a structured walkthrough through code. Supports 20 developer personas (new joiner, bug fixer, architect, PR reviewer, vibecoder, security reviewer, and more), all CodeTour step types (file/line, selection, pattern, uri, commands, view), and tour-level fields (ref, isPrimary, nextTour). Works with any repository in any language.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/comment-code-generate-a-tutorial/SKILL.md
Transform this Python script into a polished, beginner-friendly project by refactoring the code, adding clear instructional comments, and generating a complete markdown tutorial.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/commit-message-storyteller/SKILL.md
Analyzes git diffs or staged changes and generates narrative commit messages that explain WHY a change was made, not just what changed — following Conventional Commits format. Use when asked to "write a commit message", "generate a commit", "describe my changes", "what should I commit this as", "commit this", "summarize my diff", or "help me commit". Works with git diff output, staged files, or plain descriptions of changes.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/competitor-ad-intelligence/SKILL.md
Use this skill when the user asks to analyze, tear down, or reverse-engineer a competitor''s paid ads. Trigger for prompts like "what ads is [competitor] running", "tear down their ad strategy", "competitor ad analysis", "find ad angles we haven''t tried", or "reverse-engineer their paid funnel". Do not trigger for organic/SEO competitor research or website positioning analysis.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/containerize-aspnetcore/SKILL.md
Containerize an ASP.NET Core project by creating Dockerfile and .dockerfile files customized for the project.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/containerize-aspnet-framework/SKILL.md
Containerize an ASP.NET .NET Framework project by creating Dockerfile and .dockerfile files customized for the project.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/content-management-systems/SKILL.md
Workflow for building and modifying content management systems across WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Drupal, WooCommerce, Joomla, HubSpot CMS Hub, Webflow, Adobe Experience Manager, and similar platforms. Use when working on CMS themes, plugins, apps, modules, admin panels, media uploads, content models, editors, markdown pipelines, or static export workflows.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/context-map/SKILL.md
Generate a map of all files relevant to a task before making changes
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/conventional-branch/SKILL.md
Create Git branches following the Conventional Branch specification (feature/, bugfix/, hotfix/, release/, chore/). Use when creating a new branch, naming a branch, or checking whether a branch name complies with the spec.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/conventional-commit/SKILL.md
Prompt and workflow for generating conventional commit messages using a structured XML format. Guides users to create standardized, descriptive commit messages in line with the Conventional Commits specification, including instructions, examples, and validation.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/convert-excel-to-md/SKILL.md
Converts Excel (.xlsx) workbooks into Markdown so their contents can be accurately analyzed, summarized, searched, or extracted from. Use this skill whenever the user shares, references, or asks about a .xlsx file — even if they don''t say "convert" or "markdown" explicitly. This includes requests to "read", "summarize", "review", "extract data from", "compare", "chart", or "analyze" a spreadsheet, workbook, budget, data export, or tracker. Always run the bundled conversion script to produce Markdown first; do not attempt to parse .xlsx content directly or write ad-hoc extraction code. Also use this skill for batch requests involving a whole folder of Excel workbooks. IMPORTANT: When the user references a folder or set of documents containing multiple file types (.pdf, .docx, .xlsx), invoke ALL three sibling skills — convert-pdf-to-md, convert-word-to-md, and convert-excel-to-md — so no file type is silently skipped.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/convert-pdf-to-md/SKILL.md
Converts PDF (.pdf) documents into Markdown so their contents can be accurately analyzed, summarized, searched, or extracted from. Use this skill whenever the user shares, references, or asks about a .pdf file — even if they don''t say "convert" or "markdown" explicitly. This includes requests to "read", "summarize", "review", "extract data from", "compare", or "analyze" a PDF report, paper, invoice, form, contract, or scanned document. Always run the bundled conversion script to produce Markdown first; do not attempt to parse PDF content directly or write ad-hoc extraction code. Also use this skill for batch requests involving a whole folder of PDF documents. IMPORTANT: When the user references a folder or set of documents containing multiple file types (.pdf, .docx, .xlsx), invoke ALL three sibling skills — convert-pdf-to-md, convert-word-to-md, and convert-excel-to-md — so no file type is silently skipped.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/convert-plaintext-to-md/SKILL.md
Convert a text-based document to markdown following instructions from prompt, or if a documented option is passed, follow the instructions for that option.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/convert-word-to-md/SKILL.md
Converts Word (.docx) documents into Markdown so their contents can be accurately analyzed, summarized, searched, or extracted from. Use this skill whenever the user shares, references, or asks about a .docx file — even if they don''t say "convert" or "markdown" explicitly. This includes requests to "read", "summarize", "review", "extract data from", "compare", or "analyze" a Word document, resume, report, contract, or proposal. Always run the bundled conversion script to produce Markdown first; do not attempt to parse .docx content directly or write ad-hoc conversion code. Also use this skill for batch requests involving a whole folder of Word documents. IMPORTANT: When the user references a folder or set of documents containing multiple file types (.pdf, .docx, .xlsx), invoke ALL three sibling skills — convert-pdf-to-md, convert-word-to-md, and convert-excel-to-md — so no file type is silently skipped.
GitHubSkillgithub/awesome-copilot/skills/copilot-cli-quickstart/SKILL.md
Use this skill when someone wants to learn GitHub Copilot CLI from scratch. Offers interactive step-by-step tutorials with separate Developer and Non-Developer tracks, plus on-demand Q&A. Just say "start tutorial" or ask a question! Note: This skill targets GitHub Copilot CLI specifically and uses CLI-specific tools (ask_user, sql, fetch_copilot_cli_documentation).
Plain text files in a repository that tell a coding agent how the project works: commands to run, conventions to follow and things to avoid. CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, cursor rules and skills are the common kinds.
CLAUDE.md is read by Claude Code. AGENTS.md is an open format that Codex, Cursor and other agents read. Many projects keep one and point the other at it.
A folder with a SKILL.md that describes one capability, such as filling PDFs or reviewing code. The agent loads it only when the task calls for it.
Your agents already can, over MCP, limited to the files you're allowed to read. Searching them from this page is coming.
