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Skills · last verified 2026-10-23

github/awesome-copilot — install for GitHub Copilot

github.com/github/awesome-copilot · plugin marketplace · community Copilot customizations

What it does

A community collection of custom agents, instructions, skills, hooks, workflows and plugins for GitHub Copilot, curated in one repository with a searchable companion website. The README organizes the collection into agents (specialized Copilot agents, some integrating with MCP servers), instructions (coding standards applied by file pattern), skills (self-contained folders with instructions and bundled assets) and plugins (bundles for specific workflows).

Because the entries come from many third-party developers, the README itself advises inspecting an agent and its documentation before installing. That advice applies here too: this page verifies the marketplace install path, not every entry in the collection.

Install

Install a plugin (verified against the repo README's Install a Plugin section):

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

If the marketplace is not already registered, the README gives the two-step form:

copilot plugin marketplace add github/awesome-copilot
copilot plugin install <plugin-name>@awesome-copilot

Replace <plugin-name> with the plugin's name from the collection; the README does not name a single default plugin, so no specific name is given here.

Verified against github.com/github/awesome-copilot (README, Install a Plugin), 2026-10-23.

Trust score: not scored

No score is given for this page. This is a community collection of third-party entries, not a single skill, and the entries were not fully read in this pass, so a scored review would not be honest. What was checked is listed under Verification below.

Verification

Checked 2026-10-23 against the author's own repository. No install was run and no account was connected for this check.

What was checked: Author README (collection description, What's in this repo, Install a Plugin section, third-party sourcing note) was read from a fresh clone of the repo. Individual agents, instructions, skills and plugins in the collection were not reviewed.

Limits: Install commands checked against the author README; not executed in this pass. No entry in the collection was fully read, so no trust score is given.

Sources: github.com/github/awesome-copilot (README, Install a Plugin)

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