github-copilot

An AI coding assistant that suggests code while you type and answers questions about the files you are working on. It works in several popular code editors and from the GitHub command line.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for code completion, coding questions, GitHub Issue work, multi-file edits, command-line suggestions, and opening a proposed change as a pull request.
Why use it?
It reduces routine typing and helps turn task descriptions or comments into code, plans, and tests. Developers still need to check suggestions for security and correctness.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/g1joshi/agent-skills/github-copilot
Any agent
npx skills add G1Joshi/Agent-Skills --skill github-copilot
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/G1Joshi/Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 292 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00020 $0.00292
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00146
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00058
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00029

Measured 2d ago against content hash 749c730e97e3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-copilot scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/ai-ml/github-copilot/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is the enterprise standard. 2025 features Copilot Workspace (Idea-to-PR workflow) and Copilot Edits (multi-file awareness).

When to Use

  • Enterprise: SOC2 compliant, IP indemnity.
  • In-IDE: Works in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Vim.
  • CLI: gh copilot suggest "how to tar a folder".

Core Concepts

Copilot Workspace

A dev environment where you describe a task, and Copilot generates a plan + code + tests, then opens a PR.

Copilot Chat

Chat interface aware of your open files and selection.

Ghost Text

The gray text completions as you type.

Best Practices (2025)

Do:

  • Use Workspace for Issues: Start a task from a GitHub Issue -> "Open in Workspace".
  • Comment Driven Dev: Write a comment // Calculate fibonacci, wait for completion.
  • Context: Keep relevant files open. Copilot looks at open tabs for context.

Don't:

  • Don't blindly accept: Verify security and logic.

References

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 45 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 749c730e97e3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

github-copilot is a skill published in the GitHub repository G1Joshi/Agent-Skills (12 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 292 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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