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Creating Recipes with GitHub Copilot

This repository includes a GitHub Copilot skill that provides structured guidance for creating AutoPkg recipes. When you ask Copilot to create a download, munki, or pkg recipe, it automatically follows dataJAR conventions and linting standards.

Prerequisites

• VS Code with the GitHub Copilot extension
• AutoPkg installed and configured
• pre-commit installed (brew install pre-commit then pre-commit install)
• Basic understanding of AutoPkg recipe structure

Usage

1. Open this repository in VS Code
2. Open GitHub Copilot Chat
3. Ask Copilot to create a recipe, for example:
   • “Create a download and munki recipe for AppName”
   • “Create a download recipe for AppName that uses Sparkle”
   • “Create a pkg recipe for AppName”
4. Copilot will use the skill to generate recipes following repository conventions
5. Test with autopkg run -v RecipeName.download
6. Verify with pre-commit run --files

What the Skill Covers

• Download recipes — Direct URL, Sparkle, GitHub Releases, web scraping, architecture-specific downloads
• Munki recipes — Complete pkginfo, installs array generation, version detection, pkg unpacking
• Pkg recipes — PkgCopier, AppPkgCreator, PkgRootCreator patterns
• Linting standards — Formatting, key ordering, naming conventions
• Processor reference — Core processors with MinimumVersion requirements

Skill Reference Files

Related Resources

AutoPkg Documentation

• AutoPkg GitHub
• AutoPkg Wiki
• Processor Documentation

dataJAR Repositories

• dataJAR-recipes
• Shared Processors

Community Resources

• AutoPkg Google Group
• MacAdmins Slack #autopkg
• Noteworthy Processors