dfrysinger-skills

skills

My agent skills for GitHub Copilot CLI and other coding agents. Small, composable, and easy to adapt.

Inspired by mattpocock/skills.

How to install this Copilot plugin

1. Install the plugin

copilot plugin install dfrysinger/skills

Skills register under the plugin name dfrysinger-skills and become available to invoke from your agent session. Direct local installs from a path on disk are deprecated in Copilot CLI; installing from this GitHub repo is the supported path.

2. (Optional) install the autonomous self-learning daemon (macOS)

The daemon runs three per-user LaunchAgents under your login session:

• com.${USER}.skills.sweep (daily 09:15) — autonomous skill creation into the LOCAL root only.
• com.${USER}.skills.curator (daily 09:30) — dry-run consolidation report; never mutates.
• com.${USER}.skills.selftest (manual) — preflight check.

Install + verify:

~/code/skills/skills/skill-review/scripts/daemon-install.sh install
~/code/skills/skills/skill-review/scripts/daemon-install.sh selftest

Other commands: status, uninstall. Halt switch: any file at ~/.copilot/skill-state/skill-review/disable-daemon makes both autonomous jobs no-op until removed.

The daemon writes only to ~/.copilot/skills/ (local, no remote) and the state dir ~/.copilot/skill-state/. It never modifies this public repo, even on disk — verify-repo-unchanged.sh is the post-run guard.

Reference

Self-learning skill system — a port of Hermes Agent to Copilot CLI

A port of NousResearch/hermes-agent's autonomous self-learning machinery (MIT). Agents create skills from real work without being asked, and the library is routinely consolidated or pruned. Because Copilot CLI has no code-enforced post-turn fork like Hermes, the autonomous-creation trigger is reimplemented as an end-of-task subagent dispatch plus a daily scheduled sweep, both gated by a durable ledger. The two-root layout provides the containment Hermes gets from forking. Full attribution and the verbatim-vs-adapted breakdown: skills/skill-review/references/NOTICE.md.

• skill-review : Autonomous per-session reflection that creates/patches skills WITHOUT asking — a port of Hermes's background_review.py (_SKILL_REVIEW_PROMPT lifted verbatim, wrapped in a binding Copilot execution contract). Writes only to the LOCAL root.
• skill-curator : Periodic curator (Hermes curator.py) that consolidates narrow sibling skills into umbrellas and archives unused ones on a 7-day cadence; agent-created skills are autonomous, hand-made skills are recommend-only.
• skill-create / skill-manage : Copilot-native re-expression of Hermes's skill-management tool surface — create, patch, archive, restore, pin, promote, or extend a skill with enforced authoring standards and a validator.

To trigger an autonomous skill-creation pass on demand (instead of waiting for the daily 09:15 sweep), drop a scoped prompt like this into a fresh Copilot CLI session:

Dispatch skill-review subagent to scan my last 30 days of sessions for any procedure I had to explain to an agent more than twice that isn't already covered by a skill in ~/code/skills/skills/ or ~/.copilot/skills/.

The subagent runs the same prompt the daemon does, scoped to whatever pattern you describe. Phrase the ask in terms of recurring teaching patterns rather than specific error messages — the reviewer is tuned to dismiss one-off failures as noise, so framing like "find this bug class" tends to come back empty even when the pattern is real. Output lands in ~/.copilot/skills/ with a .agent-created marker and a ledger entry; the public repo stays pristine.

Code Review

• dual-review : Run two independent reviewers (latest Claude Opus + latest GPT, non-mini/non-codex) in parallel against a diff, merge their findings without duplicates, fix everything in scope, and iterate until both return clean. Symmetric failure handling, hallucination guard, round-11 escape hatch. Includes a drop-in reviewer-prompt template under references/.

Browsing

• authenticated-browse : Open a headed Playwright Chromium window so you can complete SSO/MFA/device-trust login manually, then let the agent reuse that persistent profile headlessly to fetch text/HTML/links, screenshot pages, or evaluate JS on internal sites it otherwise can't reach. Per-profile lock; cookies stay on your machine.

Workflow