copilot-sdk

copilot-sdk is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from intellectronica/agent-skills. It costs 59 tokens per session (2,912 once invoked), scanned A, original, CC0-1.0.

A skill for building applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK, which lets software control the Copilot command-line agent through code. It covers Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Go, .NET, and Java.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to configure the SDK, stream agent events, add custom tools or agents, connect MCP servers, manage permissions, and preserve sessions across supported programming languages.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand setup, authentication, permissions, events, tools, agents, servers, and saved sessions when integrating Copilot into an application.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to configure the SDK, stream agent events, add custom tools…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/intellectronica/agent-skills/copilot-sdk
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.

Any agent
npx skills add intellectronica/agent-skills --skill copilot-sdk
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/intellectronica/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 59 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,912 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00059 $0.02912
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01456
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00582
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00291

Measured 7d ago against content hash 00bb73dcdd41, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

copilot-sdk 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 7d 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/copilot-sdk/SKILL.md · 276 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 276 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Copilot SDK

Overview

The GitHub Copilot SDK exposes the same Copilot CLI agent runtime over JSON-RPC, so apps can drive Copilot programmatically instead of building their own orchestration layer.

Status: Public preview
SDKs: Node.js/TypeScript, Python, Go, .NET, Java
Architecture: Application -> SDK client -> JSON-RPC -> Copilot CLI

How to use this skill

When helping with the Copilot SDK:

  1. Prefer the official docs index and the language-specific README over memory.
  2. Treat the top-level SDK README plus docs/ as the source of truth for shared behavior.
  3. Call out preview status when stability or breaking changes matter.
  4. Avoid hardcoding model lists when runtime discovery via listModels() is available.
  5. Watch for stale guidance around permissions, lifecycle methods, and event names.

Current source of truth

Core SDK docs

Read the full file on GitHub · 276 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 7d ago First seen · 276 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A 00bb73dcdd41

Subscribe to this mod's changes

copilot-sdk is a skill published in the GitHub repository intellectronica/agent-skills (292 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed CC0-1.0. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 2,912 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.