creating-devcontainers

name	creating-devcontainers
description	Create and review DevContainer configurations that follow organisational standards. Use when a user asks to set up a dev container, configure a development environment, create a devcontainer.json, add lifecycle hooks, review an existing DevContainer for compliance, or improve container security. Covers base images, features, extensions, lifecycle hooks, and security hardening.
license	MIT
compatibility	VS Code with Dev Containers extension (ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers)
allowed-tools	Bash

DevContainer Skill

Overview

This skill provides capabilities for creating and reviewing DevContainer configurations that comply with organisational standards.

Capabilities

Capability	Action	Description
Create	actions/create.md	Generate a standards-compliant DevContainer configuration
Review	actions/review.md	Analyse an existing DevContainer for compliance and improvements

Standards

This skill bundles the following standards in standards/:

Standard	File	Description
Core	core.md	Base image, lifecycle hooks, container configuration, file structure
Extensions	extensions.md	VS Code extension requirements and guidelines
Features	features.md	DevContainer features configuration and versioning
Security	security.md	Security requirements and risk guidance
Checklist	checklist.md	Consolidated compliance checklist
Template	template.json	Base configuration template

Usage

1. Load this skill manifest
2. Identify the required capability (create or review)
3. Load the bundled standards from standards/
4. Ask the user what language(s) and tooling the DevContainer needs to accommodate
5. Execute the action following actions/<capability>.md