copilotkit-contribute

CopilotKit Contribute is an onboarding and workflow skill for contributing to the CopilotKit open-source project. It solves the friction of getting a new contributor productive in a large pnpm/Nx monorepo by documenting the full path from fork and clone through setup, branching, testing, and submitting a pull request against CopilotKit/CopilotKit. It also references a bundled MCP server (copilotkit-docs) that exposes search-docs and search-code tools for querying live documentation and source.

The skill lays out a concrete workflow: fork and clone, install with pnpm (requires pnpm v9.x and Node 20+), bootstrap with a single build, create a branch using feat/fix/docs naming conventions, develop with watch mode or a targeted Nx package task, run Vitest tests, lint and format, commit using enforced conventional-commit format, and open a PR against main where CI builds all packages and publishes preview packages. It includes a pre-PR checklist, a quick-reference command table, key architecture notes (the V1-wraps-V2 package structure, the AG-UI SSE-based protocol between frontend and runtime, and Nx/pnpm orchestration), and reference documents covering repo structure, the testing guide, PR guidelines, and pre-commit hooks (lefthook running lint-fix, tests, package checks, and commitlint).

It targets developers who want to contribute to CopilotKit and need the project's specific conventions, commands, and CI expectations in one place. All commands are standard local development operations (git, pnpm, nx) with no destructive or remote-execution behavior.