GitHub Copilot CLI

Copilot CLI reads ~/.agents/skills/ and ~/.claude/skills/ natively. If you’ve already set up either of those for another tool (especially via the canonical-home pattern), Copilot picks up the same skills without an additional symlink.

If you want an explicit Copilot-specific home, that works too.

Make sure you’ve done the one-time setup first (clone the repo, export REPO).

If you’ve followed the canonical-home pattern, Copilot CLI is already covered. Verify:

ls ~/.agents/skills/   # should list the skills you've installed

Copilot CLI will discover them automatically.

Install (explicit Copilot home) 

mkdir -p ~/.copilot/skills
ln -s "$REPO/plugins/rest-api-design/skills/rest-api-design" \
      ~/.copilot/skills/rest-api-design
ln -s "$REPO/plugins/structured-code-review/skills/structured-code-review" \
      ~/.copilot/skills/structured-code-review

gh skill (registry-based, April 2026+)

GitHub introduced a gh skill command for registry-based install/publish (analogous to npm or pip). Check the Copilot CLI docs for the latest syntax. The registry path may eventually replace symlinks for hosted distributions.

Verifying

In a fresh gh copilot session, drop a prompt that should trigger one of the skills (see Install Verifying it works).

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