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copilot-delegate skill

by amElnagdy·amElnagdy/delegate-skills·2.2k stars·MIT

Delegate a coding task to the GitHub Copilot CLI (`copilot`) as a background implementer, then review its diff and land it yourself. Use this whenever the user wants to delegate implementation work to Copilot - phrasings like "have Copilot implement X", "delegate this to copilot", "run it through Copilot CLI", or "use copilot to implement/fix/refactor" - or wants to run a queue of coding tasks through Copilot while staying the reviewer. DO NOT USE for tasks small enough to do inline, or when the user wants the code written directly without delegating.

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Install the copilot-delegate skill

A skill is a folder. Copy it into your agent's skills folder and the agent loads it when the task matches its description. 

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/amElnagdy/delegate-skills.git /tmp/delegate-skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/delegate-skills/skills/copilot-delegate ~/.claude/skills/copilot-delegate
available in every project

In the Claude apps, zip the folder and upload it from the Skills settings. The folder on GitHub

The instructions your agent would load

SKILL.md as published, without the frontmatter. Read it on GitHub

Copilot Delegate

You are the orchestrator. Delegate a bounded coding task to a separate implementer — the GitHub Copilot CLI — then review what it produced and land it yourself. You write the brief and own the judgment; the implementer makes changes in its own session in a clean working tree; you verify and commit.

The loop needs only a shell command and file access, so any comparable orchestrator can drive it.

When NOT to use this

(MXC-based, controlled via the /sandbox command and settings, disabled by default) — this relay does not configure them. --read-only only disables edit tools (--mode plan); shell commands still run. If project files must not change at all, dispatch against a clean or isolated worktree.

  • The task is small enough to do inline; delegation overhead is not worth it.
  • The copilot CLI is not installed or authenticated.
  • You need a hard sandbox. Copilot exposes sandbox controls, but they are upstream-experimental

Prerequisites (check once)

itself runs on Node 18+ — the relay probes copilot version).

  1. Install copilot (npm install -g @github/copilot; the CLI requires Node 22+, the relay

COPILOTGITHUBTOKEN / GHTOKEN / GITHUBTOKEN in the environment.

  1. Authenticate: run copilot login (interactive web/device flow), or set
  1. Confirm copilot version succeeds.
  2. Work in, or point --cd at, the target git repository.

Choose the model (optional)

Copilot picks a default model (auto). To choose another, pass --model . The relay accepts letters, digits, and . _ : / - only (the value reaches a shell on Windows).

Choose the effort (optional)

Copilot supports a reasoning effort dial: --effort with values low, medium, high, xhigh, or max. The relay rejects any other value before dispatch.

The loop

Run these five steps per task. Steps 1, 4, and 5 require judgment; 2 and 3 are mechanical.

1. Write a brief

Copilot sees only the text you send. It cannot read your conversation: the brief must stand alone with the goal, current state, what to change, what to leave untouched, the project's real gates, and a report contract. Keep each brief to a single task. Write it to a file and pass it as the relay's --brief. See references/writing-the-brief.md.

2. Dispatch

Use the bundled relay. It runs copilot -p with --output-format json --no-color --stream off, captures the JSONL event stream, and writes result.json.

node "<skill-dir>/scripts/relay.mjs" --brief brief.txt --cd /path/to/repo
# choose a model:                    add --model <name>
# set reasoning effort:              add --effort <level>
# read-only planning pass:           add --read-only  (forces --mode plan)
# full tool autonomy:                add --allow-all-tools
# hard time limit (watchdog):        add --timeout 2h   (the 30m default suits brief runs)
# resume a session:                  add --session <id>  or  --resume-last
# see all options:                   node .../relay.mjs --help

The child's cwd pins the workspace. The relay writes artifacts under the system temp dir by default and never commits. See references/dispatch-and-poll.md.

3. Wait for completion

The relay blocks until copilot finishes. Run it with the orchestrator's background-command facility, or background it in the shell and poll for result.json. A pre-run usage error exits 2 and writes no result; a missing copilot exits 127 and writes status: "copilot_unavailable".

Completion means the process exited and result.json exists — trust process state and the working tree, not the progress display. Copilot's final assistant message is the finalMessage field of result.json.

4. Review — do not trust the self-report

  • Re-run the project's gates yourself.
  • Read the diff against the brief, starting with touchedFiles.
  • Run relevant guard skills if installed.

See references/review-and-land.md.

5. Land it

If the work is good, commit it. The relay never commits — the diff and result.json are the record; run git status and git diff first to confirm exactly what changed. If the group has a PR flow, make the commit and push a branch; let human review happen. If the diff is wrong or incomplete, re-dispatch a corrected brief in a fresh run and review again.

Autonomy and permissions

Without --allow-all-tools, copilot auto-denies tool calls in headless mode: the process exits 0 but the relay detects the denial events and reports status: "failed" with the CLI's own error message and a hint to pass --allow-all-tools. This is the honest default — the orchestrator sees the failure rather than a silent no-op.

--allow-all-tools explicitly grants full tool autonomy. --read-only selects --mode plan, which disables edit tools so project files can't be changed by direct edits; it works without --allow-all-tools. Shell commands still run in plan mode, so it guards against edits, not against everything. The two flags are mutually exclusive.

Copilot also exposes sandbox controls, but they are upstream-experimental (MXC-based, controlled via the /sandbox command and settings, disabled by default). This relay does not configure them.

Authorization model

Delegation is something the human opts into. Once briefed, copilot works as a tool you approved use of. The boundary is: do not accept conclusions from the self-report; verify everything on disk. For anything touching credentials, production data, or irreversible operations, stop and ask the human first instead of encoding it in a brief.

References

brief delivery.

  • references/writing-the-brief.md — structure, scope, gates,

result.json, and failure recovery.

  • references/dispatch-and-poll.md — flags, artifacts,

the diff done, at the end of a run.

  • references/review-and-land.md — what to verify before calling

constraint carry-forward, progress tracking, and the final coherence pass.

  • references/multi-task-queues.md — sequential queues,

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