Generate AI Agent Instructions

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Generate AI Agent Instructions is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by github in awesome-copilot.

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Install Generate AI Agent Instructions

Copy Generate AI Agent Instructions into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/tree/main/skills/acreadiness-generate-instructions ~/.claude/skills/acreadiness-generate-instructions

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/acreadiness-generate-instructions/SKILL.md in github/awesome-copilot
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/acreadiness-generate-instructions
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Generate AI Agent Instructions does

Generate AI Agent Instructions creates tailored instruction files for AI coding agents using AgentRC's instructions command, including .github/copilot-instructions.md and scoped per-area .instructions.md files. Use it after an assessment to close gaps in AI tooling.

Generate AI Agent Instructions is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Generate AI Agent Instructions comes from a repository tagged agent-skills, agents, ai, awesome and custom-agents.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

/acreadiness-generate-instructions — write AI agent instructions

Use this skill whenever the user wants to create, regenerate, or refresh their custom instructions for AI coding agents (Copilot, Claude, etc.). This is the Generate step in AgentRC's Measure → Generate → Maintain loop and the single highest-leverage action for the AI Tooling pillar.

Output options

VS Code recognises several instruction file types — AgentRC generates the most common ones:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Generate AI Agent Instructions provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/acreadiness-generate-instructions

Frequently asked about Generate AI Agent Instructions

What else does github publish alongside Generate AI Agent Instructions?
Generate AI Agent Instructions is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from github/awesome-copilot, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AI Prompt Engineering Safety Review, AI Readiness Assessment and AI Ready. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Generate AI Agent Instructions does, and is maintained by github in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the github/awesome-copilot page.
How does Generate AI Agent Instructions compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Generate AI Agent Instructions ranks #157 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Generate AI Agent Instructions against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.