🤖 GitHub Copilot Handbook

A curated collection of GitHub Copilot customizations — instructions, prompts, agents, and skills — ready to drop into your project.

📖 Full documentation: nikiforovall.github.io/github-copilot-rules

Structure

.github/
├── instructions/      # Path-specific coding rules (applyTo patterns)
├── prompts/           # Reusable prompt templates
├── agents/            # Custom agent modes
└── skills/            # Auto-loaded agent capabilities
AGENTS.md              # Workspace-wide agent instructions

What’s Included

Instructions

Agents

Prompts

Skills

How to Use

1. Copy the files you need into your project’s .github/ directory
2. Configure .vscode/settings.json:

{
  "chat.useAgentsMdFile": true,
  "github.copilot.chat.commitMessageGeneration.instructions": [
    { "file": ".github/instructions/git-message.instructions.md" }
  ],
  "github.copilot.chat.reviewSelection.enabled": true,
  "github.copilot.chat.reviewSelection.instructions": [
    { "file": ".github/instructions/coding-guidelines.instructions.md" },
    { "file": ".github/instructions/coding-style.instructions.md" }
  ],
  "github.copilot.chat.testGeneration.instructions": [
    { "file": ".github/instructions/testing-xunit.instructions.md" }
  ]
}

[!TIP] Customize the rules to fit your team’s workflow. See Awesome Copilot for more inspiration.

Credits

Inspired by