github-copilot-starter

GitHub Copilot Starter is a setup skill that generates a complete, production-ready GitHub Copilot configuration for a new project based on its technology stack. It solves the cold-start problem of configuring Copilot consistently, saving teams from hand-authoring the repository instructions, per-language guidelines, reusable skills, and agent definitions that make Copilot follow project standards.

After gathering the primary language/framework, project type, additional technologies, development style, and whether GitHub Actions is used, the skill scaffolds a structured set of files. It creates the main `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, a `.github/instructions/` directory of topic files (language, testing, documentation, security, performance, code review), a `.github/skills/` directory of reusable skill folders (component setup, test writing, code review, refactoring, docs generation, debugging), and four standard agent definitions (software engineer, architect, reviewer, debugger). If the project uses GitHub Actions it also generates a `copilot-setup-steps.yml` workflow with a fixed job name and minimal required permissions. The skill emphasizes fetching and adapting proven patterns from the awesome-copilot repository first, adding attribution comments when it reuses content, and keeping instruction files to high-level principles rather than embedded code snippets.

It is intended for developers and teams standing up a new repository who want Copilot to produce code aligned with their conventions from day one. Because it fetches reference documentation from awesome-copilot before authoring files, an internet-capable fetch tool is expected.