🤖 Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations

A curated collection of prompts, instructions, and chat modes to supercharge your GitHub Copilot experience across different domains, languages, and use cases.

🚀 What is Awesome GitHub Copilot?

This repository provides a comprehensive toolkit for enhancing GitHub Copilot with specialized:

• - Focused, task-specific prompts for generating code, documentation, and solving specific problems
• - Comprehensive coding standards and best practices that apply to specific file patterns or entire projects
• - Specialized AI personas and conversation modes for different roles and contexts

MCP Server

To make it easy to add these customizations to your editor, we have created a MCP Server that provides a prompt for searching and installing prompts, instructions, and chat modes directly from this repository.

{
  "servers": {
    "awesome-copilot": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/microsoft/mcp-dotnet-samples/awesome-copilot:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

🔧 How to Use

🎯 Prompts

Use the / command in GitHub Copilot Chat to access prompts:

/awesome-copilot create-readme

📋 Instructions

Instructions automatically apply to files based on their patterns and provide contextual guidance for coding standards, frameworks, and best practices.

💭 Chat Modes

Activate chat modes to get specialized assistance from AI personas tailored for specific roles like architects, DBAs, or security experts.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guidelines for details on how to:

• Add new prompts, instructions, or chat modes
• Improve existing content
• Report issues or suggest enhancements

Quick Contribution Guide

1. Follow our file naming conventions and frontmatter requirements
2. Test your contributions thoroughly
3. Update the appropriate README tables
4. Submit a pull request with a clear description

📖 Repository Structure

├── prompts/          # Task-specific prompts (.prompt.md)
├── instructions/     # Coding standards and best practices (.instructions.md)
├── chatmodes/        # AI personas and specialized modes (.chatmode.md)
└── scripts/          # Utility scripts for maintenance

🌟 Getting Started

1. Browse the Collections: Check out our comprehensive lists of prompts, instructions, and chat modes.
2. Add to your editor: Click the "Install" button to install to VS Code, or copy the file contents for other editors.
3. Start Using: Copy prompts to use with / commands, let instructions enhance your coding experience, or activate chat modes for specialized assistance.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🛡️ Security & Support

• Security Issues: Please see our Security Policy
• Support: Check our Support Guide for getting help
• Code of Conduct: We follow the Contributor Covenant

🎯 Why Use Awesome GitHub Copilot?

• Productivity: Pre-built prompts and instructions save time and provide consistent results
• Best Practices: Benefit from community-curated coding standards and patterns
• Specialized Assistance: Access expert-level guidance through specialized chat modes
• Continuous Learning: Stay updated with the latest patterns and practices across technologies

Ready to supercharge your coding experience? Start exploring our prompts, instructions, and chat modes!

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Aaron Powell 💻 🚧 📆 📣	Muhammad Ubaid Raza 💻	Harald Kirschner 💻	Matteo Bianchi 💻	Aung Myo Kyaw 💻	Daniel Scott-Raynsford 💻	Burke Holland 💻
Peter Strömberg 💻	Daniel Meppiel 💻	James Montemagno 💻	Vamshi Verma 💻	Yohan Lasorsa 💻	Oren Me 💻	Mike Rousos 💻
Guilherme do Amaral Alves 💻	Troy Simeon Taylor 💻	Ambily 💻	Tugdual Grall 💻	Tianqi Zhang 💻	Shubham Gaikwad 💻	Saul Dolgin 💻
NULLchimp 💻	Matt Vevang 💻	Justin Yoo 💻	Gisela Torres 💻	Debbie O'Brien 💻	Allen Greaves 💻	Amelia Payne 💻
Sebastien DEGODEZ 💻	Sebastian Gräf 💻	Salih İbrahimbaş 💻	Robert Altman 💻	Rob Simpson 💻	Rick Smit 💻	Peter Smulovics 💻
Peli de Halleux 💻	Paulo Morgado 💻	Nick Taylor 💻	Mike Parker 💻	Mike Kistler 💻	Michael Fairchild 💻	Michael A. Volz (Flynn) 💻
4regab 💻	Theo van Kraay 💻	Troy Witthoeft (glsauto) 💻	Tài Lê 💻	Udaya Veeramreddygari 💻	Waren Gonzaga 💻	Will 保哥 💻
Yuki Omoto 💻	Meii 💻	samqbush 💻	sdanzo-hrb 💻	voidfnc 💻	Wendy Breiding 💻	Ankur Sharma 💻
黃健旻 Vincent Huang 💻	이상현 💻	Abdi Daud 💻	Adrien Clerbois 💻	Alan Sprecacenere 💻	André Silva 💻	Antoine Rey 💻
Artem Saveliev 💻	Bruno Borges 💻	Christophe Peugnet 💻	Chtive 💻	Craig Bekker 💻	Dan 💻	Eldrick Wega 💻
Felix Arjuna 💻	Furkan Enes 💻	Genevieve Warren 💻	George Dernikos 💻	Giovanni de Almeida Martins 💻	Ioana A 💻	Jakub Jareš 💻
Joe Watkins 💻	John Papa 💻	Joseph Gonzales 💻	José Antonio Garrido 💻	Kim Skov Rasmussen 💻	Kenny White 💻	Louella Creemers 💻
Luke Murray 💻	Mark Noble 💻
Add your contributions

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

📚 Additional Resources

• VS Code Copilot Customization Documentation - Official Microsoft documentation
• GitHub Copilot Chat Documentation - Complete chat feature guide
• Custom Chat Modes - Advanced chat configuration
• VS Code Settings - General VS Code configuration guide

™️ Trademarks

This project may contain trademarks or logos for projects, products, or services. Authorized use of Microsoft trademarks or logos is subject to and must follow Microsoft's Trademark & Brand Guidelines. Use of Microsoft trademarks or logos in modified versions of this project must not cause confusion or imply Microsoft sponsorship. Any use of third-party trademarks or logos are subject to those third-party's policies.