Awesome Copilot
GitHub's official customization library — prompts, instructions, chat modes, and agents for Copilot.
About
Awesome Copilot (github/awesome-copilot) is GitHub's official community collection for customizing GitHub Copilot: reusable prompts (slash-command task templates), custom instructions (coding standards applied per file pattern), custom chat modes (specialized personas like planner or DBA), agents, and curated collections for domains from .NET to data engineering. An MCP server lets editors search and install customizations directly, with one-click installs for VS Code, Insiders, and Visual Studio.
The honest picture: quality varies — it's a community collection, so some entries are thin or outdated, and the repo has spawned many forks of uneven value. Customizations are Copilot/VS Code-centric; they don't always transfer cleanly to other agents. But as the canonical, Microsoft-blessed starting point for shaping Copilot's behavior, it is the first place to look before writing custom instructions from scratch.
What it can do
- Reusable slash-command prompts
- Pattern-based custom instructions
- Custom chat modes (personas)
- Curated collections by domain
- MCP server for in-editor discovery
Setup
Browse github.com/github/awesome-copilot, copy prompts/instructions/chatmodes into .github/ in your repo, or install via the MCP server with Docker.
Prerequisites
GitHub Copilot (VS Code, Insiders, or Visual Studio); Docker for the MCP server install path.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 54; Trending score 80/100 from researcher assessment.
Sources
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