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Design or review infrastructure, deployment, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, health checks, rollback, feature flags, production readiness, and mobile release workflows. Use for DevOps, platform, container, pipeline, or release tasks.

Build agentic applications with GitHub Copilot SDK. Use when embedding AI agents in apps, creating custom tools, implementing streaming responses, managing sessions, connecting to MCP servers, or creating custom agents. Triggers on Copilot SDK, GitHub SDK,…

Generate Excalidraw diagrams from natural language descriptions. Use when asked to "create a diagram", "make a flowchart", "visualize a process", "draw a system architecture", "create a mind map", or "generate an Excalidraw file". Supports flowcharts,…

Stop coding agents from shipping generic UI. Use UIZZE's 800,000+ real web and iOS screens to build product-specific interfaces, define a design contract, cover required states, and run a hard finish gate. Use when designing, implementing, redesigning,…

Create or register a canvas extension in the awesome-copilot repository. Use when asked to scaffold a new canvas extension, create its plugin.json, add a reusable extension to one or more plugins, or migrate extension metadata. Extensions are reusable source…

Migrates a project that uses checked-in .designer.cs files behind .resx to using a source-generator instead

Polish any GitHub repository's surface — labels (emoji rating tiers, P0–P3 priority, impact severity), issue forms, PR template, CI workflows, CODEOWNERS, rulesets, docs. Repo meta & config only — no code logic touched. Use when creating a new repo or…

Build Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in C#/.NET against the current ModelContextProtocol 2.x NuGet packages. Helps with cases the model gets wrong without guidance — stale versions (0.x preview or 1.x-era defaults), the v2 stateless-by-default HTTP…

GitHub Agentic Workflows (`gh-aw`) is a GitHub CLI extension for writing Agentic Workflows in markdown and compiling them to GitHub Actions.

Upgrade gh-aw to latest gh-aw-firewall release and identify follow-up spec tasks.

Design and verify a deterministic operational-value grader for a GitHub Agentic Workflow. Use for per-run operational value, evidence attribution, maturation, baselines, and operational-value evaluators. Usage: /aw-value OWNER/REPO WORKFLOW-NAME.

Core developer rules and coding conventions for gh-aw changes.

Route gh-aw workflow design/create/debug/upgrade requests to the right prompts.

Publish validated gh-aw changes as a draft pull request from a cloud agent.

Define and validate GitHub custom agent files, prompts, and examples.

Add and test declarative behavior-defined agentic engines in gh-aw, extending Go infrastructure only when necessary.

Install, run, and fix errors from actionlint — the GitHub Actions workflow linter. Load when validating `.github/workflows/*.yml` files after migration or generation.

Azure DevOps migration to GitHub Actions — syntax mappings and the migration report template for YAML pipelines, templates, variable groups, service connections, deployment jobs, stages, conditional logic. Load with `migration-core` when migrating Azure…

Bamboo migration to GitHub Actions — syntax mappings and the migration report template for Build plans, deployment projects, tasks, requirements, variables, plan branches. Load with `migration-core` when migrating Bamboo sources to GitHub Actions.

Bitbucket Pipelines migration to GitHub Actions — syntax mappings and the migration report template for Pipelines, Pipes, parallel steps, branch/pull-request workflows, deployments, variables. Load with `migration-core` when migrating Bitbucket Pipelines…

CircleCI migration to GitHub Actions — syntax mappings and the migration report template for Workflows, jobs, Orbs, executors, contexts, parameters, matrix jobs, approval gates. Load with `migration-core` when migrating CircleCI sources to GitHub Actions.

Drone CI migration to GitHub Actions — syntax mappings and the migration report template for Pipelines, plugins, services, secrets, triggers, multi-platform pipelines. Load with `migration-core` when migrating Drone CI sources to GitHub Actions.

GitLab CI migration to GitHub Actions — syntax mappings and the migration report template for Pipelines, includes, Pages, environments, rules/only/except, parallel jobs, GitLab-specific variables. Load with `migration-core` when migrating GitLab CI sources to…

Jenkins migration to GitHub Actions — syntax mappings and the migration report template for Pipelines (declarative + scripted), shared libraries, Groovy scripts, credential bindings, agent labels, parallel stages, plugin replacements. Load with…

Manage Spec Kit presets via `specify preset`. USE FOR: installing/removing presets, searching the preset catalog, showing preset info, resolving which template a preset name maps to, enabling/disabling presets, setting preset resolution priority, managing…

Detect and install the Spec Kit `specify` CLI that every other speckit skill depends on. USE FOR: checking whether `specify` is installed/on PATH, installing it when missing, fixing "command not found: specify", confirming the CLI is new enough (>= 0.11). DO…

Scaffold a Spec Kit (spec-driven development) project for GitHub Copilot by running `specify init --integration copilot --integration-options="--skills"`. USE FOR: starting a new spec-kit project, bootstrapping spec-driven development in an existing repo,…

Discover, install, and author Spec Kit bundles via `specify bundle`. USE FOR: searching/showing/listing bundles, installing/updating/removing a bundle (a curated set of extensions/presets/integrations/workflows), validating a bundle manifest, building a…

Check the local environment for Spec Kit by running `specify check` (and `specify version`). USE FOR: verifying required tools are installed, diagnosing a broken spec-kit setup, reporting CLI version/feature capabilities. DO NOT USE FOR: installing or…

Manage Spec Kit extensions via `specify extension`. USE FOR: installing/removing/updating spec-kit extensions, searching the extension catalog, showing extension info, enabling/disabling extensions, setting extension resolution priority, managing extension…

Check for and apply Spec Kit CLI updates via `specify self`. USE FOR: checking whether a newer specify-cli release is available, previewing an upgrade with --dry-run, upgrading the CLI in place (optionally to a pinned tag). DO NOT USE FOR: checking project…

Manage and run Spec Kit automation workflows via `specify workflow`. USE FOR: running a workflow by ID or local YAML, resuming a paused/failed run, checking run status, listing/installing/removing workflows, searching the workflow catalog, showing a workflow…

Use the AWF (Agentic Workflow Firewall) to run commands with network isolation and domain whitelisting. Provides L7 HTTP/HTTPS egress control for AI agents.

Prepare an open pull request for merge from a GitHub Copilot cloud agent. Drives Reviews, local validation, and Mergeable to a ready state. Does not merge, and cannot trigger CI.

Regenerate and post-process all agentic workflows. Use when gh-aw is updated, workflow .md files change, or when asked to recompile/regenerate workflows.

Use the AWF (Agentic Workflow Firewall) to run commands with network isolation and domain whitelisting. Provides L7 HTTP/HTTPS egress control for AI agents.

Debug the AWF firewall by inspecting Docker containers (awf-squid, awf-agent), analyzing Squid access logs, checking iptables rules, and troubleshooting blocked domains or network issues.

Practical Python scripts for debugging awf - parse logs, diagnose issues, inspect containers, test domains

Debug GitHub Actions workflows by downloading logs, analyzing summaries, and understanding how agentic workflows and the AWF firewall work together.

Team code quality checklist - use for checking Python code quality, bugs, security issues, and best practices

Generate conventional commit messages - use when creating commits, writing commit messages, or asking for git commit help

A minimal skill example - use when learning the skill format

Generate comprehensive pytest tests - use when generating tests, creating test suites, or testing Python code

How to manually regenerate the compiled agentic workflow .lock.yml files when the gh-aw Version Check workflow reports version drift. All workflows track the newest github/gh-aw release or prerelease.

How to fetch the latest github/gh-aw release binary — either as the gh CLI extension (gh aw ...) or as a raw platform binary downloaded from GitHub Releases — including how to resolve the latest tag, pick the right asset, and verify its checksum.

Instructions for using the struct tag-based console rendering system in Go

Error Message Style Guide for Validation Errors

Use this skill when creating a new Java E2E integration test (failsafe IT) that requires a new replay proxy YAML snapshot file in test/snapshots/

Use this skill whenever editing `*.java` files in the `java/` directore of the SDK in order to write idiomatic, well-structured Java code for the Copilot SDK

Use this skill whenever editing `*.rs` files in the `rust/` SDK in order to write idiomatic, efficient, well-structured Rust code

Analyze C++ build performance using vcperf.exe and ETL traces. Use this skill when the user wants to profile a build, understand compile bottlenecks, identify expensive headers or templates, generate JSON analysis reports, or interpret vcperf output. Covers…

Comprehensive guidance for building web apps with opinionated defaults for tech stack, design system, and code standards. Use when user wants to create a new web application, dashboard, or interactive interface. Provides tech choices, styling guidance,…

Review and refine GitHub Well-Architected Framework (WAF) documentation under the content/ folder for clarity, precision, consistency, and publication readiness. Use this when reviewing pull requests, markdown files, or draft content in content/ to ensure…

Validate and improve GitHub Well-Architected Framework (WAF) documentation under the content/ folder for architectural correctness, decision quality, explicit trade-offs, and actionable guidance. Use this when reviewing pull requests, markdown files, or draft…

Scan repository dependencies for known vulnerabilities using the GitHub MCP Server's Dependabot toolset and the GitHub Advisory Database. Use when asked to check dependency security, audit lockfiles, or verify packages before merging.

Scan files, content, or recent changes for secrets such as API keys, passwords, tokens, and credentials using the GitHub MCP Server's run_secret_scanning tool.

Add a community extension to the Spec Kit catalog from a GitHub issue submission. USE FOR: processing extension submission issues, validating catalog entries, updating catalog.community.json and docs/community/extensions.md, creating PRs. DO NOT USE FOR:…