The missing app store for GitHub Copilot
Community recipes for turning GitHub Copilot from a generic assistant into domain-specific agents, workflows, and coding enforcers.

What it does
This repository is a curated catalog of community-submitted customizations for GitHub Copilot. It indexes specialized agents, file-pattern instructions, self-contained skills, session hooks, curated plugins, and markdown-driven GitHub Actions workflows. The goal is to give Copilot domain-specific guardrails and behaviors beyond its default training.
The interesting bit
The project treats Copilot less like a static autocomplete engine and more like an operating system that needs applications. The llms.txt file is a particularly clever meta-layer: it exposes the entire catalog in a machine-readable format so other AI agents can browse and consume it.
Key highlights
- Seven resource types: agents, instructions, skills, plugins, hooks, agentic workflows, and a cookbook for Copilot APIs
- Companion website with full-text search, a Learning Hub, and a Tools section for MCP servers
- Machine-readable
llms.txtavailable for AI agent consumption - Marketplace integration allows direct plugin installation from the Copilot CLI/VS Code
- All listings are community-contributed and third-party sourced
Caveats
- The README explicitly warns that all customizations are sourced from third-party developers and must be inspected before installing
Verdict
Worth exploring if you are trying to coax Copilot into behaving like a domain expert rather than a generalist. Skip it if you prefer your AI assistant without configuration overhead or third-party extensions.
Frequently asked
- What is github/awesome-copilot?
- Community recipes for turning GitHub Copilot from a generic assistant into domain-specific agents, workflows, and coding enforcers.
- Is awesome-copilot open source?
- Yes — github/awesome-copilot is open source, released under the MIT license.
- What language is awesome-copilot written in?
- github/awesome-copilot is primarily written in Python.
- How popular is awesome-copilot?
- github/awesome-copilot has 36.9k stars on GitHub and is currently accelerating.
- Where can I find awesome-copilot?
- github/awesome-copilot is on GitHub at https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.