# yaml-language-server: $schema=../../.schemas/tools.schema.json

# Tools data for the Awesome GitHub Copilot website

# Each tool entry provides information for the tools page

tools:

- id: mcp-server

name: Awesome Copilot MCP Server

description: >-

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server that provides prompts for searching and installing

prompts, instructions, agents, and skills directly from this repository. Makes it easy

to discover and add customizations to your editor.

category: MCP Servers

featured: true

requirements:

- Docker installed and running

links:

blog: https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/announcing-awesome-copilot-mcp-server

vscode: https://aka.ms/awesome-copilot/mcp/vscode

vscode-insiders: https://aka.ms/awesome-copilot/mcp/vscode-insiders

visual-studio: https://aka.ms/awesome-copilot/mcp/vs

configuration:

type: json

content: |

{

"servers": {

"awesome-copilot": {

"type": "stdio",

"command": "docker",

"args": [

"run",

"-i",

"--rm",

"ghcr.io/microsoft/mcp-dotnet-samples/awesome-copilot:latest"

]

}

}

}

tags:

- mcp

- docker

- search

- install

- id: chatcrystal

name: ChatCrystal

description: >-

Local-first knowledge base for AI coding conversations. ChatCrystal imports

conversations from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Trae, and GitHub Copilot,

distills them into searchable notes, and exposes recall, search, and writeback

tools through a stdio MCP server.

category: MCP Servers

featured: false

requirements:

- Node.js 20 or higher

- npm

- ChatCrystal installed globally with npm

- Optional Ollama or supported API provider for summarization and embeddings

links:

github: https://github.com/ZengLiangYi/ChatCrystal

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/chatcrystal

documentation: https://zengliangyi.github.io/ChatCrystal/

features:

- "Conversation import: Claude Code, Cursor, Codex CLI, Trae, and GitHub Copilot"

- "Semantic search: find prior fixes, decisions, code snippets, and notes"

- "MCP tools: search_knowledge, get_note, list_notes, and get_relations"

- "Memory loop: recall_for_task and write_task_memory for coding agents"

- "Local-first storage: data is stored under the user's ChatCrystal data directory"

configuration:

type: json

content: |

{

"servers": {

"chatcrystal": {

"type": "stdio",

"command": "crystal",

"args": ["mcp"]

}

}

}

tags:

- mcp

- cli

- npm

- local-first

- memory

- knowledge-base

- semantic-search

- id: vscode-extension

name: Awesome GitHub Copilot Browser

description: >-

A VS Code extension that allows you to browse, preview, and download GitHub Copilot

customizations from the awesome-copilot repository. Features a tree view for exploring

agents, prompts, instructions, and skills with smart caching for better performance.

category: VS Code Extensions

featured: true

requirements:

- VS Code version 1.103.0 or higher

- Internet connection to fetch repository data

- A workspace folder open in VS Code (for downloads)

links:

github: https://github.com/timheuer/vscode-awesome-copilot

vscode: vscode:extension/TimHeuer.awesome-copilot

vscode-insiders: vscode-insiders:extension/TimHeuer.awesome-copilot

marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=TimHeuer.awesome-copilot

features:

- "🔍 Browse: Explore chat modes, instructions, prompts, agents, and skills in a tree view"

- "📖 Preview: View file content before downloading"

- "⬇️ Download: Save files to appropriate .github/ folders in your workspace"

- "🔃 Refresh: Update repository data with manual refresh"

- "💾 Caching: Smart caching for better performance"

tags:

- vscode

- extension

- browse

- preview

- download

- id: workspace-architect

name: Workspace Architect

description: >-

A comprehensive library of specialized AI personas and chat modes for GitHub Copilot.

Includes architectural planning, tech stack guidance, and advanced cognitive reasoning

models. Install via npm and use the CLI to download personas and prompts.

category: CLI Tools

featured: false

requirements:

- Node.js 20 or higher

- npm

links:

github: https://github.com/archubbuck/workspace-architect

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/workspace-architect

features:

- "📦 CLI tool: List and download personas, prompts, and chat modes"

- "🎭 Rich persona library: Architecture, React, Azure, and more"

- "🧠 Cognitive modes: Advanced reasoning and planning personas"

- "⚡ Easy install: npm install -g workspace-architect"

configuration:

type: bash

content: |

# Install globally

npm install -g workspace-architect

# List available items

workspace-architect list

# Download a specific item

workspace-architect download instructions:basic-setup

tags:

- cli

- npm

- personas

- chat-modes

- prompts

- id: apm

name: APM - Agent Package Manager

description: >-

npm for AI coding agents. The package manager for AGENTS.md, Agent Skills, and MCP servers.

One package installs to every AI agent (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, Codex, Gemini) in their

native format.

category: CLI Tools

featured: true

requirements:

- Python 3.8 or higher (for pip install)

- Or use the shell installer

links:

github: https://github.com/danielmeppiel/apm

pypi: https://pypi.org/project/apm-cli/

features:

- "📦 Universal packages: One install works for Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and more"

- "🔧 Skills & Instructions: Install guardrails and capabilities"

- "🔌 MCP Server management: Configure and manage MCP servers"

- "🏗️ Create packages: Share your standards and workflows"

- "🌐 Multi-source: GitHub, GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps"

configuration:

type: bash

content: |

# Install via shell script

curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/danielmeppiel/apm/main/install.sh | sh

# Or install via pip

pip install apm-cli

# Install a skill

apm install danielmeppiel/form-builder

# Compile for your AI tools

apm compile

tags:

- cli

- python

- package-manager

- skills

- agents

- mcp

- id: prompt-registry

name: Prompt Registry

description: >-

A visual marketplace for discovering, installing, and managing GitHub Copilot prompt

libraries from multiple sources. Browse bundles in a tile-based interface with search,

filters, and one-click install. Supports GitHub, local directories, and APM repositories.

category: VS Code Extensions

featured: false

requirements:

- VS Code

links:

github: https://github.com/AmadeusITGroup/prompt-registry

vscode: vscode:extension/AmadeusITGroup.prompt-registry

vscode-insiders: vscode-insiders:extension/AmadeusITGroup.prompt-registry

marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmadeusITGroup.prompt-registry

features:

- "🎨 Visual Marketplace: Browse bundles with search, filters, and one-click install"

- "🔌 Multi-Source: Connect to GitHub, local directories, APM, or Awesome Copilot"

- "📦 Version Management: Track versions and enable automatic updates"

- "👥 Profiles & Hubs: Organize bundles by project/team"

- "🌍 Cross-Platform: Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows"

tags:

- vscode

- extension

- marketplace

- prompts

- bundles

- id: github-node-vs

name: GitHub Node for Visual Studio

description: >-

Adds GitHub and MCP Servers nodes to Solution Explorer in Visual Studio. Quickly access

and manage GitHub-specific files like workflows, Copilot instructions, and agents, plus

MCP server configurations - all without leaving Visual Studio.

category: Visual Studio Extensions

featured: false

requirements:

- Visual Studio 2022 or higher

links:

github: https://github.com/madskristensen/GitHubNode

marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MadsKristensen.GitHubNode

features:

- "📁 GitHub Node: Easy access to .github folder contents in Solution Explorer"

- "➕ Quick Create: Add Copilot instructions, agents, prompts, skills, and workflows"

- "🔌 MCP Servers Node: Centralized access to MCP configurations"

- "🔄 Git Status Icons: See file status directly in the tree view"

- "🌐 Open on GitHub: Quick link to view files on GitHub.com"

tags:

- visual-studio

- extension

- solution-explorer

- github

- mcp

- id: context7

name: Context7

description: >-

An intelligent documentation and context management system for GitHub Copilot customizations.

Context7 indexes, analyzes, and provides semantic search across prompts, instructions, agents,

and skills in your repositories. Includes automatic documentation generation, collection validation,

and AI-powered discovery to help developers find and install the right customizations.

category: Documentation & Discovery

featured: true

requirements:

- Internet connection to access Context7 platform

- GitHub repository with Copilot customizations (prompts, instructions, agents, or skills)

links:

documentation: https://context7.com/github/awesome-copilot

features:

- "🔍 Semantic Search: Intelligently find relevant prompts, instructions, and agents across your repository"

- "📊 Automatic Indexing: AI-powered analysis and categorization of your customizations"

- "✅ Validation: Built-in tools for validating collection manifests and file structure"

- "📝 Documentation Generation: Auto-generate README files and discovery interfaces"

- "🎯 Trust Scoring: Verification and reliability scoring for community contributions"

- "🔗 Deep Integration: Works with awesome-copilot and other Copilot customization repositories"

tags:

- documentation

- discovery

- search

- github

- copilot-customizations

- validation

- id: vscode-agent-manager

name: VS Code Agent Manager

description: >-

VS Code Agent Manager is the essential toolkit for supercharging your GitHub Copilot experience.

Effortlessly discover, install, and manage custom Copilot Agents directly within VS Code.

category: VS Code Extensions

featured: true

requirements:

- VS Code version 1.106.0 or higher

- Internet connection to fetch repository data

links:

github: https://github.com/luizbon/vscode-agent-manager

vscode: vscode:extension/luizbon.vscode-agent-manager

vscode-insiders: vscode-insiders:extension/luizbon.vscode-agent-manager

marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=luizbon.vscode-agent-manager

features:

- "🔍 Auto-Discovery: Point the Agent Manager to any GitHub repository, and it will automatically index all available agents"

- "📦 One-Click Installation: Install agents in seconds. Choose to install them globally (User Profile) for access in all projects, or locally (Workspace) for project-specific needs."

- "🔄 Smart Updates & Version Control: Stay up to date. The extension tracks installed versions against the remote source, alerting you when updates are available. View changelogs and author details at a glance."

- "🛡️ Git-Powered Reliability: Built on top of Git, ensuring that you always get the exact version of the agent you expect, with verified author and commit data."

tags:

- vscode

- extension

- copilot

- agent

- manager

- id: groundhog-day

name: Groundhog Day

description: >-

Autonomous backup agent for GitHub Copilot CLI skills. Watches your

~/.copilot/skills/ directory in real time, commits every change with

meaningful messages, and pushes to GitHub automatically. Starts on boot

via macOS LaunchAgent, restarts if it crashes, and requires zero

interaction after setup. One-line installer creates a backup repo,

seeds it with existing skills, and starts the watcher. Includes a daily

health check, sync locking, push retry, and empty-source protection.

category: CLI Tools

featured: false

requirements:

- macOS or Linux

- GitHub CLI (gh) authenticated

- git

- fswatch (installed automatically via Homebrew on macOS)

links:

github: https://github.com/DUBSOpenHub/groundhog-day

features:

- "👀 Real-Time Watch: Detects every create, edit, rename, and delete in your skills directory using fswatch"

- "🔄 Auto Sync: Commits and pushes changes to GitHub with meaningful commit messages"

- "🏥 Daily Health Check: Automated 6 AM checkup validates watcher, repo state, remote sync, and log health"

- "⚡ One-Line Install: curl installer creates a backup repo, seeds existing skills, and starts the watcher"

- "🛡️ Built-In Safety: Sync locking, push retry, empty-source guard, and graceful shutdown"

- "🔁 Survives Reboots: macOS LaunchAgent keeps it alive across restarts"

configuration:

type: bash

content: |

# Install in one line

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DUBSOpenHub/groundhog-day/main/install.sh | bash

# Or install with Homebrew

brew install DUBSOpenHub/tap/groundhog-day

# Check status

groundhog status

# Run a manual health check

groundhog checkup

tags:

- cli

- backup

- skills

- automation

- macos

- launchagent

- id: swarm-orchestrator

name: Swarm Orchestrator

description: >-

Independent verification battery for patches written by AI coding agents.

Wraps GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, or Codex; runs each agent-authored

patch through a five-layer falsification battery (intent, regression,

solution quality, behavioral, provenance) on isolated git branches before

merge. Hard gates block patches that fail intent or regression checks;

advisory layers feed a composite score with signed SLSA attestation

attached as a git note.

category: CLI Tools

featured: false

requirements:

- "Node.js >= 20"

- "git >= 2.40 (worktrees required)"

- "One of: GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, or Codex (installed and authenticated separately)"

- Docker (optional, for SWE-bench evaluation containers)

links:

github: https://github.com/moonrunnerkc/swarm-orchestrator

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/swarm-orchestrator

features:

- "Five-layer falsification battery: differential gating, mutation testing, semantic cheat detection, property-based testing, signed SLSA attestation"

- "Worker/reviewer execution model on isolated git worktrees"

- "Static dependency analyzer for safe parallelism (the planner does not declare independence; the analyzer detects it)"

- "In-toto SLSA v1.0 attestation with cosign keyless signing via Fulcio + OIDC"

- "Multi-agent: adapters for Copilot CLI, Claude Code, Codex, Claude Code Teams"

- "Audit-ready run artifacts in runs/<execution-id>/"

configuration:

type: bash

content: |

# Install globally

npm install -g swarm-orchestrator

# Run a demo

swarm demo demo-fast

# Plan and execute a goal

swarm run --goal "Add a /health endpoint that returns 200 OK" \

--tool claude-code --target ./my-repo

# Verify a signed attestation on a merge commit

swarm attest verify <commit-sha>

tags:

- cli

- npm

- verification

- falsification

- attestation

- mutation-testing

- slsa

- copilot-cli

- claude-code

- codex

- agent-orchestrator

- id: copilot-cockpit

name: Copilot Cockpit

description: >-

A VS Code extension for structured GitHub Copilot workflows. Adds planning,

approvals, scheduling, research runs, and review checkpoints inside the editor.

category: VS Code Extensions

featured: false

requirements:

- VS Code version 1.80.0 or higher

- GitHub Copilot in VS Code

- Download the VSIX from GitHub Releases and install it in VS Code

links:

github: https://github.com/goodguy1963/Copilot-Cockpit

documentation: https://github.com/goodguy1963/Copilot-Cockpit#readme

features:

- "Todo cockpit: Plan work, manage approvals, and keep execution status visible"

- "Scheduler and jobs: Run scheduled tasks, multi-step jobs, and pause checkpoints"

- "MCP integration: Use built-in MCP tools for repo workflows inside VS Code"

- "Research runs: Capture and review research tasks without leaving the editor"

tags:

- vscode

- extension

- copilot

- planning

- scheduling

- mcp

- id: ivy-tendril

name: Ivy Tendril

description: >-

Open-source AI coding orchestrator that manages GitHub Copilot, Claude Code,

Codex, Antigravity, and OpenCode through a plan-based lifecycle. Decomposes tasks

into structured plans, dispatches agents in isolated git worktrees, runs automated

verification gates (build, test, lint, format, AI review), and accumulates

self-improving memory across sessions. Local-first desktop app.

category: CLI Tools

featured: false

requirements:

- Windows, macOS, or Linux

- At least one supported coding agent installed (GitHub Copilot CLI, Claude Code, Codex, etc.)

links:

github: https://github.com/Ivy-Interactive/Ivy-Tendril

documentation: https://tendril.ivy.app/getting-started/installation

features:

- "🔄 Plan lifecycle: Idea → plan → execute → verify → PR in a structured pipeline"

- "🤖 Agent-agnostic: Orchestrates Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, Antigravity, OpenCode"

- "✅ Verification gates: Build, test, lint, format, and AI review before human sees the diff"

- "🧠 Self-improving: Agents learn your codebase conventions through persistent memory"

- "🌳 Git worktree isolation: Each task runs in its own worktree"

tags:

- orchestration

- multi-agent

- verification

- worktree

- local-first