Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations
Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations is a community-created repository that collects, curates, and documents customizations for GitHub Copilot. It provides ready-made prompts, instructions, specialized agents, skills, and curated collections that help users get more focused, consistent, and productive results from Copilot in coding, documentation, and other developer workflows.
Key features
- Awesome Agents: Specialized Copilot agents (personas/chat modes) that can integrate with MCP servers to provide tailored behavior for particular workflows, tools, or domains.
- Awesome Prompts: Task-specific prompts designed to be used directly in GitHub Copilot Chat (e.g., via
/commands) to generate code, docs, tests, or refactors with minimal setup. - Awesome Instructions: File- or project-scoped instructions (coding standards, patterns, best practices) that automatically apply contextual guidance to specific file types or repo areas.
- Awesome Skills & Collections: Self-contained skill folders and curated collections bundling related prompts, instructions, and agents for common themes or technologies.
- MCP Server integration: Provides an MCP Server implementation that allows searching and installing prompts/instructions/chat modes from the repository via a local server (Docker-based), easing installation into VS Code, CCA, or other clients.
Contents and structure
The repo is organized into folders such as agents/, prompts/, instructions/, collections/, and scripts/. Each contribution follows naming/frontmatter conventions to enable discoverability and automated tooling. README files and docs describe how to use items in Copilot Chat, VS Code, and other supported environments.
How to use
- In GitHub Copilot Chat, access prompts with the
/command (for example/awesome-copilot create-readme). - For editors like VS Code, you can install or connect to the provided MCP Server (Docker-based) to browse and activate custom agents and chat modes directly from the repository.
- Custom agents can be selected when assigning tasks to Copilot in Copilot coding agent (CCA) or activated in agents sessions in supported editors.
Contribution & governance
The project welcomes community contributions — prompts, instructions, agents, and improvements. It uses the all-contributors specification and includes contributor lists and contribution guidelines. Contributions are reviewed and maintained in the repo; authors are predominantly community members with repository stewardship by GitHub.
License, security & disclaimers
The repository is MIT licensed. It includes a SECURITY.md and SUPPORT.md for reporting issues. The README explicitly notes that customizations are third-party contributions and are not verified/endorsed by GitHub; users should inspect agents and their permissions before installing.
Who is this for
Developers and teams using GitHub Copilot who want curated, shareable prompts/instructions/agents to enforce coding standards, automate repetitive tasks, and tailor Copilot behavior to specific languages, frameworks, or organizational needs.
