New: The Agentic SDLC Handbook — the in-depth reference for PROSE. Free, online. Read it →

PROSE

Build agentic primitives for GitHub Copilot.

Skills, Custom Agents, Instructions, and Hooks — designed with proven architectural patterns, bundled into plugins, and shipped on marketplaces. Hands-on. Copilot-native. Practitioner-tested.

Start building → Read the Specification →

Open source · Contributions welcome

The book teaches the discipline. This site shows you how to ship it in Copilot.

The Agentic SDLC Handbook is the in-depth reference for PROSE — the seven primitive types, the load lifecycle, the architectural patterns, the methodology. This site is the practitioner's playbook: how to author Skills, Custom Agents, Instructions, and Hooks for Copilot, bundle them as plugins, and distribute them. Theory there. Practice here.

What you'll find here

Skills

The new entrypoint. Description-driven activation. (Chatmodes are deprecated.)

Custom Agents

Specialist personas with tool boundaries. Sub-agents you can dispatch.

Instructions

Scoped conventions per file or directory.

Hooks

Event-driven automation on dev events.

Plugins

Bundle primitives, ship them on marketplaces.

Patterns

The architectural and design-pattern vocabulary that makes primitives durable — grounded in the Rosetta Stone chapter and the genesis skill.

Browse the existing material