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GitHub Copilot

Config name: copilot

Skills

ScopePath
Project.agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md
Global(none)

Copilot has no global skills path.

Hooks

Symposium creates a symposium.json file in the project hooks directory, and merges entries into the global config.

ScopeFile
Project.github/hooks/symposium.json
Global~/.copilot/config.json

Events registered: preToolUse, postToolUse, userPromptSubmitted, sessionStart (camelCase).

Output format: JSON. Uses "bash" key instead of "command" for platform-specific dispatch. Any non-zero exit code denies (not just exit 2).

MCP servers

ScopeFileKey
Project.vscode/mcp.json<name> (top-level)
Global~/.copilot/mcp-config.json<name> (top-level)