GitHub Copilot Setup

GitHub Copilot Setup

ChefSkills is published in the standard Agent Skills discovery layout, so GitHub CLI can install individual skill folders from the repository:

skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md

The current pinned distribution is v0.1.0-public-preview.

Requirements

• GitHub CLI with gh skill support
• GitHub Copilot or another supported agent host
• a project or working directory where the skill should be installed

Check CLI support with:

gh skill --help

Preview

Preview the current source:

gh skill preview jeremylongworth-source/ChefSkills chef-core

Preview the pinned public-preview release:

gh skill preview jeremylongworth-source/ChefSkills chef-core@v0.1.0-public-preview

Install

Install chef-core at project scope:

gh skill install jeremylongworth-source/ChefSkills chef-core --agent github-copilot --scope project --pin v0.1.0-public-preview

Install the food-safety hard-gate skill:

gh skill install jeremylongworth-source/ChefSkills food-safety --agent github-copilot --scope project --pin v0.1.0-public-preview

Install a specialist skill:

gh skill install jeremylongworth-source/ChefSkills equipment-cookery --agent github-copilot --scope project --pin v0.1.0-public-preview

To choose interactively, omit the skill name:

gh skill install jeremylongworth-source/ChefSkills

Scope

Project scope installs the skill for the current project. User scope makes it available outside one repository:

gh skill install jeremylongworth-source/ChefSkills culinary-reasoning --agent github-copilot --scope user --pin v0.1.0-public-preview

Use project scope while testing or contributing to one repository. Choose user scope only when you deliberately want the skill available across projects.

Skills and skillsets

gh skill install installs atomic skill folders such as chef-core, food-safety, or recipe-development.

ChefSkills also contains YAML skillsets under skillsets/. They document repository compositions for broad work modes; they are not installed by gh skill install.

For broad culinary use, start with chef-core, culinary-reasoning, ingredient-knowledge, cooking-techniques, and food-safety. Add sauce-work, baking-structure, protein-cookery, fermentation, or equipment-cookery when the request needs that specialist behavior.

Verify

After installation, ask Copilot to use the installed skill on a narrow task:

Use the ChefSkills chef-core skill to reason through why my pan sauce split and how to recover it safely.

Look for current state, target state, mechanism, staged intervention, stop cues, side effects, and a food-safety gate.

Maintain

Pin installs to a release tag when reproducibility matters. Run gh skill update only when you intentionally want installed skills to move forward.

ChefSkills remains public-alpha content. Current before/after evaluation evidence is medium-confidence local reviewer simulation evidence, not live benchmark output.