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GitHub Copilot Hackathon

A hands-on hackathon guide for exploring GitHub Copilot's latest features — from chat modes and custom instructions to skills, agents, MCP integration, and AI-powered code reviews.

How to use

This hackathon is designed to be run interactively. Work through the parts in order:

Part Topic File
1 Setup & Exploring Copilot Chat part1-setup-and-chat.md
2 Custom Copilot Skills part2-custom-skills.md
3 Custom Copilot Agents part3-custom-agents.md
4 MCP, Issues, Coding Agent & Review part4-issues-and-review.md

Reference files

This repo includes reference implementations you can copy into your own projects:

.github/
├── skills/
│   ├── hello-ascii/SKILL.md    # Explicit skill — triggers on specific requests
│   └── greeting/SKILL.md       # Implicit skill — triggers on any greeting
└── agents/
    ├── code-reviewer.md         # Read-only code review agent
    └── doc-writer.md            # Documentation agent with edit access

Prerequisites

  • A GitHub account with Copilot access
  • An IDE with the GitHub Copilot extension (VS Code recommended)
  • A repository to experiment in