2 new efficiency skills to reduce cost and wasted cpu cycles in github actions and codespaces (#1766)

* fresh pull of updated stage with 2 skills and updated README only

* adjusted skills after feedback and used skill analyser to review

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Co-authored-by: Mark Heynes <mutl3y@heynes.biz>
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| [geofeed-tuner](../skills/geofeed-tuner/SKILL.md)<br />`gh skills install github/awesome-copilot geofeed-tuner` | Use this skill whenever the user mentions IP geolocation feeds, RFC 8805, geofeeds, or wants help creating, tuning, validating, or publishing a self-published IP geolocation feed in CSV format. Intended user audience is a network operator, ISP, mobile carrier, cloud provider, hosting company, IXP, or satellite provider asking about IP geolocation accuracy, or geofeed authoring best practices. Helps create, refine, and improve CSV-format IP geolocation feeds with opinionated recommendations beyond RFC 8805 compliance. Do NOT use for private or internal IP address management — applies only to publicly routable IP addresses. | `assets/example`<br />`assets/iso3166-1.json`<br />`assets/iso3166-2.json`<br />`assets/small-territories.json`<br />`references/rfc8805.txt`<br />`references/snippets-python3.md`<br />`scripts/templates` |
| [git-commit](../skills/git-commit/SKILL.md)<br />`gh skills install github/awesome-copilot git-commit` | Execute git commit with conventional commit message analysis, intelligent staging, and message generation. Use when user asks to commit changes, create a git commit, or mentions "/commit". Supports: (1) Auto-detecting type and scope from changes, (2) Generating conventional commit messages from diff, (3) Interactive commit with optional type/scope/description overrides, (4) Intelligent file staging for logical grouping | None |
| [git-flow-branch-creator](../skills/git-flow-branch-creator/SKILL.md)<br />`gh skills install github/awesome-copilot git-flow-branch-creator` | Intelligent Git Flow branch creator that analyzes git status/diff and creates appropriate branches following the nvie Git Flow branching model. | None |
| [github-actions-efficiency](../skills/github-actions-efficiency/SKILL.md)<br />`gh skills install github/awesome-copilot github-actions-efficiency` | Audit GitHub Actions workflow efficiency and recommend fixes to reduce CI minutes and costs. | `references/actions.md`<br />`references/patterns.md`<br />`references/reporting.md`<br />`references/review-rubric.md` |
| [github-codespaces-efficiency](../skills/github-codespaces-efficiency/SKILL.md)<br />`gh skills install github/awesome-copilot github-codespaces-efficiency` | Audit and improve GitHub Codespaces efficiency. Use this skill when a user wants faster Codespaces startup, lower Codespaces spend, slim devcontainers, right-size machines, tune idle timeout, or scope prebuilds to branches with sustained usage. | `references/codespaces.md`<br />`references/review-rubric.md` |
| [github-copilot-starter](../skills/github-copilot-starter/SKILL.md)<br />`gh skills install github/awesome-copilot github-copilot-starter` | Set up complete GitHub Copilot configuration for a new project based on technology stack | None |
| [github-issues](../skills/github-issues/SKILL.md)<br />`gh skills install github/awesome-copilot github-issues` | Create, update, and manage GitHub issues using MCP tools. Use this skill when users want to create bug reports, feature requests, or task issues, update existing issues, add labels/assignees/milestones, set issue fields (dates, priority, custom fields), set issue types, manage issue workflows, link issues, add dependencies, or track blocked-by/blocking relationships. Triggers on requests like "create an issue", "file a bug", "request a feature", "update issue X", "set the priority", "set the start date", "link issues", "add dependency", "blocked by", "blocking", or any GitHub issue management task. | `references/dependencies.md`<br />`references/images.md`<br />`references/issue-fields.md`<br />`references/issue-types.md`<br />`references/projects.md`<br />`references/search.md`<br />`references/sub-issues.md`<br />`references/templates.md` |
| [github-release](../skills/github-release/SKILL.md)<br />`gh skills install github/awesome-copilot github-release` | Guides IA through releasing a new version of a GitHub library end-to-end. Handles SemVer versioning and Keep a Changelog formatting automatically. | `references/commit-classification.md`<br />`references/semver-rules.md` |