Agent skill · amelnagdy
copilot-delegate
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.
What it needs
About 4k tokens when loaded.
What this skill does
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 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 (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. Prerequisites (check once) 1. Install copilot (npm install -g @github/copilot; the CLI requires Node 22+, the relay itself runs on Node 18+ — the relay probes copilot version). 2. Authenticate: run copilot login (interactive web/device flow), or set COPILOTGITHUBTOKEN / GHTOKEN / GITHUBTOKEN in the environment. 3. Confirm copilot version succeeds. 4. 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 <name>. 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 <level> 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. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills amelnagdy/copilot-delegate