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refactor

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from github/awesome-copilot

What it does

A community-curated collection of custom agents, prompts, instructions, and skills to enhance GitHub Copilot across different domains, languages, and use cases.

Overview

Refactor is a skill from the Awesome GitHub Copilot community collection, which provides custom agents, prompts, instructions, and skills to enhance GitHub Copilot across different domains and use cases. This skill focuses on code refactoring patterns and is part of a comprehensive toolkit that includes agents with MCP server integration, task-specific prompts, coding standards instructions, and curated thematic collections.

Key Features

Comprehensive Copilot Toolkit - Part of a repository offering agents, prompts, instructions, skills, and curated collections for enhancing GitHub Copilot
MCP Server Integration - An accompanying MCP server allows searching and installing prompts, instructions, agents, and skills directly from VS Code with Docker
Partner Ecosystem - Includes 20+ partner-created agents for DevOps, security, database, cloud, infrastructure, observability, and CI/CD workflows
Copilot SDK Collections - Provides instructions for building applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK across C#, Go, Node.js/TypeScript, and Python
Community-Driven - Open to contributions with a comprehensive collection organized by domains, languages, and use cases

Who is this for?

This is for GitHub Copilot users who want to enhance their code refactoring workflows with specialized AI guidance. It is ideal for developers who use VS Code with Copilot and want access to a curated library of prompts, instructions, and skills for improving code quality.

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Same repository

github/awesome-copilot(314 items)

refactor

Installation

Vibe Index InstallInstalls to .claude/skills/ - auto-recognized by Claude Code

npx vibeindex add github/awesome-copilot --skill refactor

skills.sh Install⚠ Installs to .agents/skills/ - may not be auto-recognized by Claude Code

npx skills add github/awesome-copilot --skill refactor

Manual InstallCopy SKILL.md content and save to the path below

~/.claude/skills/refactor/SKILL.md

SKILL.md

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Last UpdatedJan 29, 2026

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