GitHub's Conference Talk: Invest in Agent Primitives First, Awesome-Copilot Hits 40k Stars
lee_stott · x · 2026-10-15
At CognitionX, GitHub's @benleane shared three tips for agent-first app development and highlighted the community repo awesome-copilot (40k stars, 5.1k forks).
Key points from the talk:
- Invest in agent primitives first: custom instructions, prompts, agent files, tools, skills, hooks. These are portable across platforms and tools, avoid vendor lock-in, and benefit every role — devs, product owners, architects. ROI grows as business tools like Copilot Cowork add Skills + MCP.
- Feed agents the right context: map your knowledge and how agents reach it.
- Get more from every agent run: plan, gate quality, and automate your existing agents.
Borrow before you build: use a skills marketplace, adopt published skills, start from curated sets like Awesome GitHub Copilot, install selectively, and periodically re-check what you use.
The MIT-licensed repo contains community-contributed instructions, agents, skills, hooks, plugins, workflows and more.
More from coding & agent
- Dev bills $20,000 for an app built with $200 of Claude Code — IgorCarron · 2026-10-15
- Dan Shipper: run product and labs in parallel, even with a labs team of one — danshipper · 2026-10-15
- Gemini 4 Argon wrote 5,000+ lines of pure Python to build its own ray-tracing 3D engine — aitrendz_xyz · 2026-10-15
- Minecraft fully ported from Java to Rust, file by file, server and client included — Vjeux · 2026-10-15
- mitsuhiko builds a full Python IDE for iOS in an afternoon with new AI models — mitsuhiko · 2026-10-15
- How to get Gemini 4 Argon to build games that actually look decent — chongdashu · 2026-10-15