* chore(deps, docs): bump marketplace version to 1.46.0
- Refine execution priority guidance in agent documentation
- Imrpvoe discovery guidance
- Improve context cache guidance
- Add script usage guidelines to agent documentation
- Simplify agent input references
* feat: bump marketplace version to 1.47.0 and enhance agent workflows
- Add Bug‑Fix Mode with validation gate for `debugger_diagnosis` tasks
- Expand allowed task types to include `research`
- Reduce subagent concurrency limit from 4 to 2
- Update design validation handling for flagged tasks
- Update marketplace plugin version reference to 1.47.0
* chore: bump marketplace version to 1.48.0 and refine agent context envelope workflow documentation
- Enhance the Init section in gem-browser-tester.agent.md, gem-code-simplifier.agent.md, and gem-critic.agent.md with detailed context envelope handling, active context treatment, and reuse_notes trust/verification logic.
- Add explicit steps for safe assumption, verification before use, and controlled re‑reading of context notes.
* chore: refine verification of symbol usages before modifying shared components
* chore(marketplace): bump version to 1.50.0; refactor(gem-browser-tester): simplify workflow steps
* chore(docs): simplify Phase 0 task classification and streamline initialization
* chore: Merges teps for batching
* feat: Enhcanc esuport for trivial/ low complex tasks
* chore: bump version to 1.56.0 and add config settings for visual regression, devops approvals, and orchestrator complexity
* chore: fix toc links
* chore: Remove emojis from headings
* chore: Update readme
* chore: Enforce orchestration
* chore: clarify orchestrator role and bump version to 1.59.0
* chore: bump version to 1.61.0 and refine agent documentation
* feat: Add external plugins Kanban board canvas extension
- Create interactive Kanban board showing external plugin submission issues
- Display issues in columns based on labels: 'requires-submitter-fixes', 'ready-for-review', 'approved', 'rejected'
- Support drag-and-drop state transitions between columns
- Show PR links for approved issues via [Generated PR](url) pattern in issue body
- Display issue summaries with numbers and titles
- Use app theme variables for visual integration
- Implement demo mode with example issues for consistent testing
The canvas includes:
- HTTP server with /api/issues endpoint for issue fetching
- Drag-and-drop UI with vanilla JavaScript
- Responsive HTML/CSS Kanban layout
- Auto-refresh on drag operations
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* feat: Add issue detail modal to Kanban board canvas
- Click any issue card to view full details in a modal
- Modal shows issue description, creation/update dates, labels, and PR link
- Displays formatted dates and color-coded label badges
- Modal can be closed via X button or clicking outside
- Drag-and-drop still works on issue cards
- Added hover effects to issue cards for better interactivity
Demo data now includes issue body descriptions, created_at, and updated_at timestamps for realistic display.
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* feat: Integrate real external plugin issues from repository
- Replaced hard-coded demo data with live gh CLI integration
- Attempts to fetch actual issues using 'gh issue list --label external-plugin'
- Tries multiple gh installation paths for Windows compatibility
- Falls back to demo data if gh CLI isn't accessible from extension subprocess
- Demo data now contains real external plugin issue titles from repository
- Maintains full functionality (Kanban board, drag-drop, modal details, PR links)
Note: gh CLI integration may require environment configuration on Windows.
The extension gracefully degrades to accurate demo data when live integration unavailable.
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* Implement external plugins Kanban board canvas with GitHub API integration
- Created external-plugins-board canvas extension with HTTP loopback server
- 4-column Kanban board layout (requires-submitter-fixes, ready-for-review, approved, rejected)
- Fetches real issues from github/awesome-copilot repository via GitHub REST API
- Click issues to view full details in modal (title, description, dates, labels, PR links)
- Drag-and-drop support for state transitions (future: update labels via API)
- Responsive design with theme variable integration for light/dark mode
- No hard-coded demo data - displays actual repository data
Resolved subprocess execution limitation:
- Extension subprocess is sandboxed and cannot execute system binaries (gh, cmd.exe, powershell.exe)
- Solution: Use GitHub REST API directly instead of gh CLI subprocess execution
- API calls work perfectly from within restricted subprocess environment
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* Render issue body as markdown in board modal
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* Add workflow run link to external plugin intake comments
- Include a link to the GitHub Actions workflow run in intake comment
- Helps users trace which action run generated the intake report
- Works for both initial intake and re-run intake flows
- Link appears at bottom of comment for all intake states (passed/failed/quality gates)
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* Address PR review feedback on intake comment formatting
- Remove leading spaces from runLink construction to preserve markdown formatting
- Remove unnecessary newline prefix before runLink in quality gates section
- Move workflow run link to the very end of all comment types (after warnings)
- For merged intake comments, append link as final element
- Remove unused runId parameter from applyExternalPluginIntakeEvaluation
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* fix(pm-skills): use plain tag name for ref, not refs/tags/
`apm install pm-skills@awesome-copilot` invokes `git clone --depth=1 --branch=<ref>` against the source repo. `git clone --branch` rejects `refs/tags/v2.1.0` ("Remote branch not found in upstream origin") and only accepts the plain tag name.
Matches the convention used by the other entries in this file - `chrome-devtools-plugin` uses `chrome-devtools-mcp-v1.0.1`, `ai-ready` uses a SHA. `pm-skills` was the only entry with the `refs/tags/` prefix, inherited from the placeholder example in the external-plugin issue form.
Tested locally: with the fix applied, `apm install pm-skills@awesome-copilot --target claude` resolves cleanly (12 skills + MCP server + 2 hooks integrated).
Original submission: github/awesome-copilot#1767 / github/awesome-copilot#1770
* fix: regenerate marketplace.json after pm-skills ref fix
The previous force-push (7fbf75a) updated plugins/external.json only.
.github/plugin/marketplace.json is a derived artifact regenerated by
`npm start` and must be kept in sync. The Validate README.md workflow
detected the mismatch and failed.
Ran `npm ci && npm start` locally; produces a single 1-line update to
marketplace.json matching the plugins/external.json change.
* Add visual-pr plugin: screenshot capture, annotation, PR embedding, and screen recording
Four skills that teach Copilot to capture UI screenshots (Playwright + PIL),
annotate them with algorithmic label placement, embed before/after images
in PR descriptions, and record animated GIF demos.
Includes demo images showing the annotation engine on GitHub Issues.
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* Update generated README tables and marketplace.json
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* Embed annotate.py module in image-annotations skill
The full working module (annotate_image, grid_image, diff_images) is now
included as a code block so users can save it as annotate.py and import
directly. Scrubbed project-specific labels from examples.
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* Address review feedback: mss.mss() context manager, fix RECT struct, consistent placeholder
- Use mss.mss() context manager instead of mss.MSS() (ui-screenshots, screen-recording)
- Fix broken RECT struct in window+GIF combining example (screen-recording)
- Consistent projectId placeholder in AzDO upload example (pr-screenshots)
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* Fixing path on chrome devtools external pluginPath is to the folder in the repo where the plugin structure starts, not where the plugin.json file lives.
* Updating validation scripts and guidance to avoid this mistake again
Adds a skill that lets users generate images (icons, sprites, textures,
mockups) directly from their coding workflow using OpenAI gpt-image-2 or
Google Gemini. BYO API key — the skill guides users through setup on
first use.
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* feat: add explicit assumption rule and confidence metric to agent documentation
- Add `confidence` field (0‑1) to the output schema in `agents/gem-browser-tester.agent.md`
- Include `confidence` in the `extra` object of `agents/gem-devops.agent.md`
- Append the guideline “State assumptions explicitly; never guess silently” to all agent docs
- Update the “Bisect (Complex Only)” heading to reflect its gate condition
- Minor wording and formatting adjustments across the affected agent documents
* chore: update readme
* chore(release): Streamline agent documentation sections (remove self‑critique steps, renumber Handle Failure/Output)
* Add winui plugin from microsoft/win-dev-skills
Adds the Microsoft-maintained WinUI 3 development plugin as an external
plugin reference. This is a Microsoft-managed repository so it qualifies
for the external-plugin policy exception in CONTRIBUTING.md.
The plugin provides agents and skills for WinUI 3 app development:
new app scaffolding, framework migration (WPF, WinForms, Electron,
Tauri, Flutter to WinUI 3), MSIX packaging, code signing, UI
automation testing, and Windows App SDK guidance.
Source: https://github.com/microsoft/win-dev-skills
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* Remove winui3-development plugin (replaced by external winui plugin)
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Remove all bundled polyglot-test-agent content (8 agents, 1 skill,
plugin metadata) and add dotnet-test as an external plugin from
dotnet/skills. The external plugin is a superset (11 agents, 22 skills).
Marketplace and doc indexes regenerated via npm run build.
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* feat(skills): add dotnet-mcp-builder, deprecate csharp-mcp-server-generator
Adds a comprehensive skill for building MCP (Model Context Protocol)
servers in C#/.NET against the official ModelContextProtocol 1.x NuGet
packages. Covers both transports (STDIO, Streamable HTTP — SSE is
deprecated) and every primitive in the current MCP spec (2025-11-25):
tools, prompts, resources, elicitation (form + URL mode), sampling,
roots, completions, logging, and MCP Apps. Includes a thin .NET MCP
client reference and testing guidance (MCP Inspector + in-memory
transport for unit tests).
Steers the model toward the current stable 1.x packages instead of the
0.x previews it tends to pin by default, and enforces the STDIO
stdout/stderr trap.
Also deprecates the existing csharp-mcp-server-generator skill, which
predates ModelContextProtocol 1.0 and only covered a subset of the
current spec. Its SKILL.md now redirects users to dotnet-mcp-builder so
existing install URLs keep working without surprises.
* fix: address PR review from aaronpowell
- Delete csharp-mcp-server-generator skill (rather than deprecating it)
- Update mcp-apps.md pitfalls section to reference .NET Tool.Meta type
instead of the serialized _meta JSON property names
- Rebuild docs/README.skills.md
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* chore: remove C# MCP development plugin files
* chore: remove csharp-mcp-development plugin entry from marketplace
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Add Azure/git-ape to plugins/external.json and regenerate marketplace.json for discovery and install via Awesome Copilot.
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* feat: move to xml top tags for ebtter llm parsing and structure
- Orchestrator is now purely an orchestrator
- Added new calrify phase for immediate user erequest understanding and task parsing before workflow
- Enforce review/ critic to plan instea dof 3x plan generation retries for better error handling and self-correction
- Add hins to all agents
- Optimize defitons for simplicity/ conciseness while maintaining clarity
* feat(critic): add holistic review and final review enhancements
* chore: bump marketplace version to 1.10.0
- Updated `.github/plugin/marketplace.json` to version 1.10.0.
- Revised `agents/gem-browser-tester.agent.md` to improve the BROWSER TESTER role documentation with a clearer structure, explicit role header, and organized knowledge sources section.
* refactor: streamline verification and self‑critique steps across browser‑tester, code‑simplifier, critic, and debugger agents
* feat(researcher): improve mode selection workflow and research implementation details
- Refine **Clarify** mode description to emphasize minimal research for detecting ambiguities.
- Reorder steps and clarify intent detection (`continue_plan`, `modify_plan`, `new_task`).
- Add explicit sub‑steps for presenting architectural and task‑specific clarifications.
- Update **Research** mode section with clearer initialization workflow.
- Simplify and reformat the confidence calculation comments for readability.
- Minor formatting tweaks and added blank lines for visual separation.
* Update gem-orchestrator.agent.md
* docs(gem-browser-tester): enhance BROWSER TESTER role description and clarify workflow steps- Expanded the BROWSER TESTER role with explicit responsibilities and constraints
- Reformatted the Knowledge Sources list using consistent numbered items for readability- Updated the Workflow section to detail initialization, execution, and teardown steps more clearly- Refined the Output Format and Research Format Guide structures to use proper markdown syntax
- Improved overall formatting and consistency of documentation for better maintainability
* docs: fix typo in delegation description
* feat(metadata): bump marketplace version to 1.15.0 and enrich agent documentation
The marketplace plugin metadata has been updated to reflect the newer
self‑learning multi‑agent orchestration description and the version hasbeen upgraded from 1.13.0 to 1.15.0.
Documentation for the following agents has been expanded with new
sections:
- **gem-browser-tester.agent.md** – added an “Output” section outlining
strict JSON output rules and a new “I/O Optimization” section covering
parallel batch operations, read efficiency, and scoping techniques.
- **gem-code-simplifier.agent.md** – similarly added “Output” and
“I/O Optimization” sections describing concisely formatted JSON,
parallel I/O, and batch processing best practices.
- **gem-reviewer.agent.md** – updated its output format and added
detailed guidance on review scope, anti‑patterns, and I/O strategies.
These changes provide clearer usage instructions and performance‑focused
recommendations for the agents while aligning the marketplace metadata
with the updated version.
* feat(plugin): add agents list and README for gem-team plugin
* docs: update readme
* chore: match version with gem-team
* docs: standardize execution order and output format sections in agent documentation
* docs: fix typo in agent documentation files
* refactor: replace "framework" with "harness" in gem‑team marketplace, plugin, and README descriptions
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