Skills

Skill 15 of 200

AI Ready

Make any repo AI-ready — analyzes your codebase and generates AGENTS.md, copilot-instructions.md, CI workflows, issue templates, and more.

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Install

$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill ai-ready

$ npx skills add github/awesome-copilot

» /plugin marketplace add github/awesome-copilot

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

This skill helps the user install the latest ai-ready (opens in a new tab) skill by John Papa (opens in a new tab).

Why?: The full ai-ready skill is ~600 lines of detailed instructions that evolve frequently. This wrapper keeps it discoverable here while the source of truth stays in johnpapa/ai-ready (opens in a new tab) — always up to date.

Steps

Tell the user to add the skill by running this command inside Copilot CLI:
```
/skills add johnpapa/ai-ready
```
This downloads the latest version of the skill to their personal skills directory. Re-running the command updates to the latest version.
Remind the user to review the skill before loading it. They can inspect it with:
```
head -20 ~/.copilot/skills/ai-ready/SKILL.md
```
After the user confirms they’ve reviewed and installed it, tell them to reload skills with /skills reload and then say make this repo ai-ready.
Do not run the command on the user’s behalf. The user must run it themselves.

About this skill

Trigger

Make any repo AI-ready — analyzes your codebase and generates AGENTS.md, copilot-instructions.md, CI workflows, issue templates, and more. Mines your PR review patterns and creates files customized to your stack. USE THIS SKILL when the user asks to "make this repo ai-ready", "set up AI config", or "prepare this repo for AI contributions".

The verbatim description from this skill’s front matter — the string an agent matches on to decide whether to load it.

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How this issue was made

Source

github.com/github/awesome-copilot, branch main, last pushed 24 September 2026.

Licence

MIT — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

200 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. 2 distinct layouts observed: .github/skills/*/SKILL.md, skills/*/SKILL.md.

Authorship

3 of 200 skills are installed into the repository rather than published from it. They are shelved in the closing “Credited skills” part and remain the work of their own authors. A skill counts as credited when its only copy lives under one agent’s dot directory; visible directories, per-agent mirror sets, and skills installable from this repository on skills.sh all count as published.

Issue colours

Resolved from a curated brand profile — hue 295°, chroma 0.190. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.

Heading repairs

1 repair applied to this skill so the document has one h1 and no skipped levels:

Removed “AI Ready”, a leading h1 that duplicated the skill title.

Spec compliance

Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.

Images

Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.

Marketplace

A plugin manifest is published at .github/plugin/marketplace.json by GitHub, declaring 162 plugins. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree.

Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /github/awesome-copilot.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

Publication

Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

This skill helps the user install the latest ai-ready (opens in a new tab) skill by John Papa (opens in a new tab).

Steps

Tell the user to add the skill by running this command inside Copilot CLI:
```
/skills add johnpapa/ai-ready
```
This downloads the latest version of the skill to their personal skills directory. Re-running the command updates to the latest version.
Remind the user to review the skill before loading it. They can inspect it with:
```
head -20 ~/.copilot/skills/ai-ready/SKILL.md
```
After the user confirms they’ve reviewed and installed it, tell them to reload skills with /skills reload and then say make this repo ai-ready.
Do not run the command on the user’s behalf. The user must run it themselves.