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Skills for GitHub Copilot

159,000+ SKILL.md files you can adapt for GitHub Copilot. Port a skill's guidance into Copilot's custom-instructions files and it becomes standing context for Chat and agent mode. Free to browse. Pro unlocks the multi-signal Quality Score.

cat <skill>/SKILL.md >> .github/copilot-instructions.md
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What is GitHub Copilot?

GitHub Copilot is GitHub's AI pair programmer — completions, Copilot Chat, and agent mode across VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, and more. It doesn't load SKILL.md as a runtime skill, but it does honor repository custom instructions, which is where a skill's guidance goes.

How to install a skill on GitHub Copilot

Compatibility notes

Be honest about the fit: Copilot has no progressive-disclosure skill loader like an agent CLI. You adapt the skill's guidance into custom instructions. What that means:

Frequently asked — GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot skills, answered

Does GitHub Copilot support SKILL.md?
Not as a runtime skill — Copilot has no skills directory or progressive-disclosure loader. Instead it reads repository custom instructions, so you port a SKILL.md's guidance into .github/copilot-instructions.md (or a scoped .instructions.md file).
Where do Copilot custom instructions live?
Repo-wide in .github/copilot-instructions.md; path-scoped in .github/instructions/<name>.instructions.md with an applyTo glob. Both apply to Copilot Chat and agent mode.
Which skills work best with Copilot?
Guidance and convention skills — coding standards, review checklists, framework conventions. Tool-running skills that depend on an agent loop don't transfer cleanly, since Copilot won't execute bundled scripts.