One-click setup for production-grade engineering workflows in GitHub Copilot and Codex.

Stop manually copying SKILL.md files. Install this extension, run "Setup", and your AI coding agents follow disciplined engineering practices automatically.

What This Gives Your Copilot

5 Essential Skills (Quick Setup)

test-driven-development — Red-green-refactor cycle. Write failing tests first.
code-review-and-quality — Five-axis review (correctness, design, readability, security, performance)
security-and-hardening — Input validation, auth, injection prevention, secrets detection
debugging-and-error-recovery — Reproduce → isolate → root-cause → fix → regression test
git-workflow-and-versioning — Branching, commit hygiene, PR patterns

15+ Additional Skills (Full Setup)

spec-driven-development, planning-and-task-breakdown, incremental-implementation, api-and-interface-design, frontend-ui-engineering, performance-optimization, shipping-and-launch, ci-cd-and-automation, observability-and-instrumentation, and more.

4 Agent Personas

code-reviewer — Senior Staff Engineer five-axis review
security-auditor — OWASP-style vulnerability detection
test-engineer — Test strategy and coverage analysis
web-performance-auditor — Core Web Vitals audit

Usage

Setup

Install this extension from the VS Code marketplace
Open any project folder
Click "Set Up" when prompted, or run Agent Skills: Setup workspace from the command palette
Choose Quick Setup (5 essential skills) or Full Setup (all 24)

After Setup

Copilot automatically discovers skills in .github/skills/ and activates them when relevant
Agent personas appear as @code-reviewer, @security-auditor, etc. in Copilot Chat
Copilot follows the coding standards in .github/copilot-instructions.md
Codex follows the rules in .codex/rules.md

Commands

Command	What it does
`Agent Skills: Setup workspace`	Scaffold skills, agents, and config files
`Agent Skills: Add skills to workspace...`	Add individual skills
`Agent Skills: Update workspace skills`	Refresh from latest extension bundle
`Agent Skills: Remove Agent Skills from workspace`	Clean up all agent-skills files
`Agent Skills: Show Agent Skills status`	View installed skills and agents

Configuration

Setting	Default	Description
`agentSkills.autoDetect`	`true`	Show setup prompt when opening a workspace without skills
`agentSkills.gitignoreSkills`	`true`	Add `.github/skills/` to `.gitignore`
`agentSkills.defaultSkills`	5 essential skills	Skills installed by Quick Setup

How It Works

The extension scaffolds these files into your workspace:

your-project/
├── .github/
│   ├── skills/
│   │   ├── test-driven-development/SKILL.md
│   │   ├── code-review-and-quality/SKILL.md
│   │   └── ...
│   ├── agents/
│   │   ├── code-reviewer.agent.md
│   │   ├── security-auditor.agent.md
│   │   └── ...
│   └── copilot-instructions.md
├── .codex/
│   └── rules.md
└── .gitignore        ← optionally includes .github/skills/

GitHub Copilot auto-discovers skills in .github/skills/ and agent personas in .github/agents/. Codex reads .codex/rules.md for project coding standards.

Skills update when you update the extension — run Agent Skills: Update workspace skills to refresh.