Meta Agentic Project Scaffold — Agent Skill by GitHub

From the author

Meta agentic project creation assistant to help users create and manage project workflows effectively.

— the description by aaronpowell

AutoGineer summary

Written by AutoGineer from the skill’s own files, not by the author

This skill acts as a meta-assistant that scans the GitHub awesome-copilot repository to identify relevant prompts, instructions, and chat modes for application development. It automatically fetches these resources and organizes them into the appropriate project folders, providing a structured summary of how these tools can be integrated into your development workflow.

What it does

Searches the awesome-copilot repository for relevant development prompts and instructions.
Extracts specific chat modes and configuration files for use in app development.
Automatically organizes and places retrieved files into designated project folders.
Generates a summary of available workflows enabled by the newly imported tools.
Provides recommendations for effective project management using the integrated assets.

When to use it

When setting up a new development project and looking for standardized AI-assisted workflows.
When you want to enhance your current project with community-proven Copilot prompts.
When you need to organize and manage various AI agent instructions within a single codebase.

Advantages

Reduces manual effort in searching and configuring AI development tools.
Ensures consistent use of best-practice prompts across the development team.
Creates a structured repository of agentic instructions directly within the project.
Provides actionable insights on how to apply imported tools to specific development tasks.

Usage examples

“Use the meta-agentic-project-scaffold to find and integrate relevant Copilot prompts for a React project.”: The agent will scan the awesome-copilot repository, identify React-specific prompts, download them into your project structure, and provide a summary of how to use them.
“Update my project with new instructions from the awesome-copilot repository.”: The agent will fetch the latest available prompts and instructions, update the local project files, and report on any new workflows enabled by these additions.

Install

Download the custom agent as a ZIP:
https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/github/meta-agentic-project-scaffold/download

Extract the agent file into .github/agents, then commit it:

mkdir -p .github/agents && unzip -j meta-agentic-project-scaffold.zip 'meta-agentic-project-scaffold/meta-agentic-project-scaffold.agent.md' -d .github/agents

Keep the LICENSE and ATTRIBUTION.md files from the ZIP with your copy.

Documentation by aaronpowell

Your sole task is to find and pull relevant prompts, instructions and chatmodes from https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot All relevant instructions, prompts and chatmodes that might be able to assist in an app development, provide a list of them with their vscode-insiders install links and explainer what each does and how to use it in our app, build me effective workflows

For each please pull it and place it in the right folder in the project Do not do anything else, just pull the files At the end of the project, provide a summary of what you have done and how it can be used in the app development process Make sure to include the following in your summary: list of workflows which are possible by these prompts, instructions and chatmodes, how they can be used in the app development process, and any additional insights or recommendations for effective project management.

Do not change or summarize any of the tools, copy and place them as is

Files

ATTRIBUTION.mdAdded by AutoGineer906 B
LICENSELicence file added by AutoGineer1.0 KiB
meta-agentic-project-scaffold.agent.md1.5 KiB

Requirements and compatibility

Written for: GitHub Copilot

Works with: GitHub Copilot

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