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Connect GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is the AI coding assistant in VS Code, the other IDEs, the CLI, and on github.com. Connect it to an Agent Finder either as an Agent Skill (a SKILL.md Copilot discovers and activates on its own) or a remote MCP connector. They work well together — the MCP connector gives Copilot the search tool; the Skill makes it default to GitHub's Agent Finder, present the results, and never auto-install.

Option A — Agent Skill

A Copilot skill is a SKILL.md file on disk — there is no "install from a store" button. Copilot uses the same SKILL.md format and skill folders as Claude. Use the github-copilot skill, which defaults to GitHub's Agent Finder so there's nothing to configure. Add it one of three ways:

Drop in the folder. Copy the skill into a directory Copilot scans — ~/.copilot/skills/ (personal) or .github/skills/<name>/ (project):

cp -r connectors/skills/github-copilot ~/.copilot/skills/

Copilot also reads ~/.claude/skills/ and .claude/skills/, so a skill you already installed for Claude is picked up automatically.

Use the CLI. gh skill (in GitHub CLI) can search, install, and update skills straight from a GitHub repo.

Create it in the editor. In Copilot Chat, open Configure Chat (the gear icon) → the Skills tab → New Skill (User) / New Skill (Workspace) — this scaffolds an empty SKILL.md for you to paste the connectors repo's SKILL.md into. (This editor UI is only in recent VS Code / Visual Studio 2026 builds.)

How to invoke it

Copilot won't fire this Skill automatically — invoke it explicitly with its slash command. In Copilot Chat (Agent mode), type /agentfinder followed by what you need:

/agentfinder find me an MCP server for querying Postgres

It searches GitHub's Agent Finder, queries it, and lists the matches. Pair it with the MCP connector (Option B) so it can make the call and never auto-installs.

Option B — Remote MCP connector (VS Code)

Default endpoint: GitHub's Agent Finder at https://agentfinder.github.com/api/v1/mcp. Replace it to use a different discovery service.

Add the server to your workspace .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "agent-finder": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://agentfinder.github.com/api/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

How to invoke it

Open Copilot Chat in Agent mode; the agent-finder search tool is available. Ask it to find a capability and it runs the search and lists matches. Pair with the Skill (Option A) so it presents results and never auto-installs.

Endpoint

Examples use GitHub's Agent Finder (https://agentfinder.github.com/api/v1); Hugging Face Discover (https://huggingface-hf-discover.hf.space/search) works the same way. Point at either — or any compliant ARD discovery service — see Endpoints.