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planning-with-files is a persistent, file-based task-planning system for AI coding agents. It maintains task_plan.md, findings.md, and progress.md on disk and wires into agent lifecycle hooks (SessionStart, UserPromptSubmit, PreToolUse, PostToolUse, PreCompact, Stop) across Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, Pi, Hermes, and a dozen other assistants, re-injecting plan context into the model's context window on every turn. Plans survive context loss, /clear, compaction, and crashes; a session-catchup mechanism recovers prior transcripts. A v3 gated mode can block the agent from stopping until plan phases complete, backed by an append-only JSONL run ledger, stall detection, and SHA-256 plan attestation that makes hooks refuse to inject tampered content. Architecturally it is a distribution hub rather than a single application: a canonical skill under skills/planning-with-files is mirrored byte-identical into 15+ IDE-specific directories, with native TypeScript plugins (OpenCode, Pi, DSH), a Python plugin (Hermes), and shell/PowerShell hook dispatchers. Plan resolution is a fail-closed chain (PLAN_ID env → .active_plan pointer → newest plan dir → legacy root) guarded by slug validation, containment checks, symlink/junction rejection, and strict PWF_PLAN_ROOT pinning. The engineering is unusually rigorous for an agent-skill repo: 400+ pytest tests, byte-parity tests between shell/PowerShell/Python/TypeScript twins, a PATH-stub BSD userland simulation to catch GNU-only flags that silently fail on macOS, and heavy Windows PowerShell 5.1 / Git Bash portability hardening. Non-obvious patterns include KV-cache-stable injection output (no timestamps or free text in summaries, wall-clock normalization to T00:00:00Z) and an mtime-keyed attestation cache for performance. The repository is a developer tool, not a data/research project; although it ships benchmark and eval documentation (assertion pass rates, recovery-turn comparisons), those are verification evidence for the skill, not analysis artifacts. It is actively maintained at v3.24.0 with recent commits, 4 open issues, and 100+ releases; technical drift is low, with the main maintainability risk being deliberate duplication across 20+ canonical mirrors, mitigated by sync-ide-folders.py and parity tests but still a possible source of silent drift.

This repository is the official community library for GitHub Copilot customizations, including agents, skills, instructions, plugins, canvas extensions, git hooks, and a cookbook of SDK recipes in multiple languages. It also hosts a production-quality React website (Astro + Primer Brand) that catalogs all resources with search, filters, and detail pages. The codebase is primarily a collection of markdown files, JavaScript/TypeScript modules, and Python scripts, organized into well-defined directories with validation tooling in `eng/`. While the website and some extensions (draw, pr-artifact-explorer, arcade games) demonstrate solid front-end architecture, the majority of content is declarative configuration and documentation. The repository is actively maintained with frequent commits and CI workflows, though the sheer volume of community contributions introduces inconsistency risks in skill structure and dependency pinning.

Copilot for Xcode is a macOS application that integrates multiple AI code completion and chat services (GitHub Copilot, Codeium, OpenAI, Claude, Google Gemini, Ollama) directly into Xcode as a source editor extension. It provides inline code suggestions, a chat panel with context-aware memory, a prompt-to-code feature, and custom command execution. The architecture is a multi-process system: a host app manages settings and lifecycle, an XPC extension service handles AI requests and workspace state, and an Accessibility-powered widget overlays suggestion and chat panels on Xcode windows. The codebase is heavily modularized into Swift packages (Core, Tool, OverlayWindow) and uses the Composable Architecture (TCA) for state management. While primarily an application, it includes data-centric components like embedding services, vector stores (USearch), and a LangChain-inspired chain abstraction for retrieval-augmented generation, giving it a hybrid character.

This repository is an Obsidian plugin that integrates GitHub Copilot's AI-powered coding assistance directly into the Obsidian note-taking application. It provides two main features: inline code suggestions as you type (similar to Copilot in IDEs) and a chat interface for interacting with Copilot in a sidebar. The plugin handles authentication with GitHub Copilot, manages conversation history, renders Mermaid diagrams from AI responses, and allows linking to Obsidian notes using [[double bracket]] syntax in chat conversations. The architecture separates concerns into distinct modules for inline suggestions (using LSP protocol) and chat functionality (using direct API calls), with React powering the chat UI and Zustand managing state.

This repository is a comprehensive, tool-agnostic skills and steering pack that teaches AI coding agents to perform AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews. It contains a curated reference corpus of over 2,000 markdown files (6 pillars, 307 best practices, 27 industry lenses) derived from official AWS documentation, plus per-tool adapters for 15 AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, GitHub Copilot, etc.). The repo also ships production-grade supporting tooling: a CI gating tool (wa-ci) that diffs structured review JSON against a baseline and blocks PRs on regressed gaps; an evaluation harness with blind multi-reviewer adversarial adjudication; a crawler to regenerate the reference corpus from AWS docs; and one-command installers. The core skill dispatches six parallel subagents (one per pillar) to keep the 2.2 MB corpus out of any single context window. Despite the extensive content, the repository has notable maintenance challenges: the reference snapshot will drift as AWS documentation evolves (users are responsible for regeneration); lens files are duplicated across `powers/` and `skills/` directories creating a sync hazard; and the flagship skill is explicitly deprecated in favor of a successor in Agent Toolkit for AWS. The evaluation harnesses and CI tooling are well-crafted and reusable, but the sheer scale of markdown files and platform-specific adapters makes ongoing synchronization complex.