aicelerate — AI Acceleration Repository

An agent plugin marketplace by Dawn Technology, containing the aimate plugin with reusable skills for support in our Assured Delivery Process.

Install

Visual Studio Code

Via the marketplace (recommended)

1. Open your VS Code settings.json and add the marketplace:

   "chat.plugins.marketplaces": [
       "Dawn-Technology/aicelerate"
   ]

2. Open the Extensions view (⇧⌘X) and search for @agentPlugins.

3. Find aimate and select Install.

Direct install from source

Run Chat: Install Plugin From Source from the Command Palette and enter:

https://github.com/Dawn-Technology/aicelerate

Update

Run Extensions: Check for Extension Updates from the Command Palette.

GitHub Copilot CLI

Via the marketplace (recommended)

Register the marketplace once, then install by name:

copilot plugin marketplace add Dawn-Technology/aicelerate
copilot plugin install aimate@aicelerate

Direct install

copilot plugin install Dawn-Technology/aicelerate:plugins/aimate

Update

copilot plugin update aimate

Requirements

Visual Studio Code

• GitHub Dawn Technology organization account with Copilot seat enabled

• Visual Studio Code with the GitHub Copilot extension installed

  • Agent plugin support enabled (chat.plugins.enabled: true in settings)

• GitHub Copilot CLI installed and authenticated

Recommended external skills

The following skills are not part of this repository but are recommended for use alongside aimate.

Grill Me (mattpocock/skills — grill-me)

Interviews you relentlessly about a plan or design until reaching shared understanding, resolving each branch of the decision tree one question at a time. Use when you want to stress-test a plan or get grilled on a design.

npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity --skill grill-me

ADR Writing (vercel/ai — adr-skill)

Helps agents write Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) as executable specifications — structured enough for a coding agent to implement without follow-up questions.

npx skills add https://github.com/vercel/ai --skill adr-skill

Caveman (mattpocock/skills — caveman)

Ultra-compressed communication mode that cuts token usage ~75% by dropping filler, articles, and pleasantries while keeping full technical accuracy. Use when you want terse, token-efficient responses.

npx skills add https://github.com/mattpocock/skills/tree/main/skills/productivity --skill caveman

Plugin

See the aimate plugin README for available skills and usage details.