How real projects configure their agents

3,700 repositories keep their own agent configuration in the open: a CLAUDE.md, a rules file, instructions for Copilot, a skill the project runs on itself. These are not mods to install. They are worth reading for what they reveal — what a maintainer thinks an agent gets wrong.

Building agents8,442Claude Code6,875Data and AI3,584Git and workflow3,574Backend and APIs3,550Languages3,468Planning3,315Code review2,876Testing2,653DevOps and cloud2,462Writing and docs2,461Memory and context2,373Research2,315Frontend2,301Security2,167Project management1,944

All Claude Code32,436 Codex24,692 OpenCode23,614 GitHub Copilot3,700 Gemini CLI2,016 Cursor1,769 Windsurf202 Kiro113

Project Stars Configures Files Always loaded
larryhudson/linear-mcp-server-again 1 GitHub Copilot 1 494 tok
jdelon02/chat-orchestrate 1 GitHub Copilot 1 632 tok
andr-ca/agentharness andr.ca Portable engineering policies for coding agents — git, testing, logging, and language conv 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 13 30,908 tok
mako10k/mcp-assoc-memory MCP Server of Associative Memory 1 GitHub Copilot 1 2,434 tok
dougdevitre/access-to cotrackpro.com Empowering Healthier Futures Together. This repository hosts the core framework and resour 1 Claude Code, GitHub Copilot 2 3,615 tok
rockexe0000/my-awesome-copilot 1 Claude Code, GitHub Copilot 17 24,967 tok
JakeTRogers/my-awesome-copilot Selfishly opinionated GitHub Copilot prompts, agents, instructions, and skills. 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 4 11,107 tok
iress/design-system Shared component library for Iress products 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 17 17,196 tok
kylebrodeur/mcp-network-analyzer MCP server for intelligent browser network capture, API analysis, and pattern discovery 1 GitHub Copilot 2 415 tok
eliransu/digital-brain Claude + Obsidian knowledge companion. A persistent, compounding wiki vault based on Karpa 1 Claude Code, GitHub Copilot 1 711 tok
Jack-infinity420/three-mechanisms-plugin Claude Code plugin | Cursor plugin | Trae plugin | Codex plugin — AI agent code of conduct 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 3 1,154 tok
nutdnuy/quantcoder-plugin Claude Code and Codex plugin wrapper for QuantCoder research-paper to QuantConnect workflo 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 4 641 tok
DustinVK/wherefore The why behind your code, as plain markdown in your repo. Agent skill to capture decisions 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 3 3,870 tok
grnbtqdbyx-create/contextforge Agent context gate for Codex, Claude Code, Copilot, MCP, Cursor, Cline, Gemini and Windsur 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 3 445 tok
commerce-atoms/agents Reusable AI agents and editor rules for building scalable ecommerce systems. 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 3 1,536 tok
guorunjie/skillpack-forge One manifest for every AI coding agent: generate AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, Claude/Codex Skills 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 3 616 tok
dadion123/agent-context-doctor Doctor-first CLI for keeping AI coding agent context files clean, minimal, consistent, and 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 3 385 tok
XucroYuri/CLISYS cli-sys.com CLISYS - Multi-CLI Intelligent Collaboration System | Meta-CLI evolving into Agentic Execu 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 4 7,883 tok
PBNZ/pbnz-skills A personal collection of Agent Skills for Claude Code, Claude Cowork, Claude.ai, the Claud 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 4 2,921 tok
BigBugaboo/strategos Local-first strategist for Claude Code, Codex CLI, and GitHub Copilot CLI 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 3 344 tok
thedatakey/apollyon Evidence-first source security scanner for human-written and AI-generated code. Rust CLI w 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 4 938 tok
lxyer/multi-agent-collaboration-system Terminal-native cockpit for AI-first software engineering — protocol-driven sidecar across 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 41 195 tok
edgarbnt/ReactSentinel MCP server that lets AI agents inspect, replay, validate, and patch React bugs in the brow 1 GitHub Copilot 1 741 tok
rumotion/ai-agent-project-template Shared AI agent instructions, durable project memory and verified workflows, with template 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode, Windsurf 10 1,471 tok
azazhang/finance-literature-review-skill Finance-first literature review skill pack for Codex, Cursor, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot. 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 4 2,871 tok
eai-support/eai-gofer eai-support.github.io Spec-driven delivery workflow for VS Code and AI coding CLIs 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 11 4,330 tok
LangcliTeam/Langpad langcli.com Langpad is an Obsidian plugin that brings AI coding agent(Langcli, Claude code etc) direct 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 6 4,933 tok
electroo69/sped-cli 242 token-efficient shell aliases for AI coding agents. One install, every command works s 1 GitHub Copilot 1 1,947 tok
legate-dev/telegram-ai-bridge Telegram ↔ AI coding CLIs bridge. Chat with Kilo, Codex, Copilot, Gemini, and Claude Code 1 GitHub Copilot 2 1,688 tok
EShener/agent-ready Make any repo ready for AI coding agents in 60 seconds. 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 4 656 tok
stealthsrc/agentops-config-toolkit Compact configuration files for coding and general tasks, helping Claude Code, Gemini CLI, 1 GitHub Copilot 1 385 tok
ali-ulu/awesome-agent Awesome Agent SDLC v1.2 — Open-source standard documentation repository for AI-agent-assis 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 4 1,264 tok
Ddhjx-code/Demand-Discovery-Skill AI coding assistant skill for automated niche demand discovery. Scans 7 data sources acros 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode 4 1,003 tok
jschick04/CopilotInstructions 1 Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 18 64,289 tok
zarfld/copilot-instructions-template 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 51 73,121 tok
felipementel/github-instructions-v1 Repositorio para demonstrar o poder do GitHub Copilot Instructions 1 GitHub Copilot 6 608 tok
vishaljsoni/copilot-customizations-workshop Hands-on 60-minute workshop covering GitHub Copilot customizations: copilot-instructions.m 1 GitHub Copilot 1 477 tok
nastanford/copilot_instructions Instruction ideas for github copilot. 1 GitHub Copilot 1 702 tok
Ismola/personal-copilot-instructions 🎯 Template de instrucciones personalizadas para GitHub Copilot Define reglas y convencion 1 GitHub Copilot 3 4,018 tok
skaramicke/github-copilot-tdd-instructions 1 GitHub Copilot 1 731 tok
zamax14/Copilot-Tools Custom prompts, agents, skills, instructions y hooks para github copilot. 1 Claude Code, GitHub Copilot 13 6,855 tok
lsampaioweb/ai-instructions Centralized VS Code Copilot configuration repository for software development and infrastr 1 Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor 54 32,542 tok
Stellar-Technology-Services/ai-workshop-demo A hands-on workshop for AI-assisted development: a small C#/.NET Blazor "chat with your do 1 Claude Code, GitHub Copilot 2 1,455 tok
vinn-ie/stmllm GitHub Copilot custom instructions for STM32 embedded development. 1 Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode 5 5,679 tok
Melampe001/.githum-copilot-instructions.md { "github.copilot.enable": {"*": true}, "github.copilot.chat.experimental.autoChatMode 1 GitHub Copilot 1 4,454 tok
NovoaDev/copilot-instructions-BC 1 GitHub Copilot 1 1,315 tok
antiotaku/github-copilot-instructions A collection of Github Copilot instructions, prompts and chatmodes for ASTRON projects 1 GitHub Copilot 16 50,615 tok
LukeFrankio/LukesCopilotInstructions 1 Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot 39 227,215 tok
mluker/github-copilot-instructions-prompts Github Copilot instructions and prompts 1 GitHub Copilot 2 106 tok
hungthai1401/laravel-dod-instruction GitHub Copilot Custom Instructions for Laravel 1 GitHub Copilot 1 265 tok