Key Enterprise copilot features that would be amazing

[MikkelRavnsted]

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Product Feedback

💬 Feature/Topic Area

Copilot Agentic Workflows

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Enterprise-Wide Agentic Infrastructure for GitHub Copilot

Context

As an AI Architect operating within a GitHub Enterprise environment, my team leverages multiple AI platforms — with GitHub Copilot serving as the primary tool for our engineering teams. Through ongoing work to improve cross-team collaboration around AI tooling, I have identified two feature gaps that I believe would significantly enhance how enterprises scale agentic capabilities across their organizations.

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Feature Request 1: Centralized Agentic Library

Background

GitHub already supports a .github-private repository as a mechanism for sharing custom agents across an Enterprise. This is a strong foundation — however, its current scope is limited to custom agents only.

Proposal

Extend the .github-private repository (or introduce a dedicated equivalent) to function as a centralized agentic library — a single, authoritative source for all agentic resources across the organization or enterprise.

This library would host:

• agent.md — Custom agents
• skill.md — Reusable skills
• prompt.md — Shared prompts
• *.instructions.md — Shared instruction sets
• Any other agentic resource types introduced in the future

Expected Behavior

All members within the organization or enterprise would have seamless access to every resource in the library — directly from their IDE or CLI — without any manual setup or cloning.

Example: A skill published to the centralized library would be immediately available via:

/skill-<NAME>

in Copilot Chat or the CLI.

Value

When a high-quality, reusable skill or prompt is developed anywhere within the enterprise, it can be promoted to the centralized library and instantly made available to every team — eliminating duplication of effort and accelerating adoption of best practices.

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Feature Request 2: Enterprise-Wide Reusable Agentic Workflows

Background

Agentic workflows are rapidly maturing, and teams across enterprises are investing heavily in building sophisticated, high-value workflows. Sharing and reusing these workflows across teams, however, remains unnecessarily difficult.

As a concrete example: I developed an agentic workflow that analyzes other agentic workflows from an architectural perspective and provides structured improvement feedback. This workflow is robust and broadly applicable — but making it available to others across our enterprise in a frictionless way is not currently possible.

The existing alternatives all have significant drawbacks:

Option	Limitation
Manual repo cloning	Friction; requires awareness and setup per user
GitHub Actions	Removes the ability to run the workflow locally
Copilot Extensions	Complex to build; inconsistent experience in practice

Proposal

Introduce the concept of a Reusable Agentic Workflow — a designation that can be applied to any repository within an organization or enterprise via settings.

When a repository is marked as a Reusable Agentic Workflow, it registers a new slash-command available to all members of the org or enterprise within their IDE and CLI.

Example: My architectural review workflow would register as:

/agentic-review

Expected Behavior

When the slash-command is invoked:

1. The workflow's agents, skills, prompts, and instructions are resolved in the background.
2. The workflow executes locally within the user's IDE or CLI context — without requiring the user to clone the source repository.
3. The experience is transparent and consistent with native Copilot slash-commands (e.g., /fix, /explain).

Value

This would enable enterprise teams to publish, discover, and invoke high-quality agentic workflows in the same way they consume any other built-in Copilot capability — significantly lowering the barrier to reuse and cross-team collaboration.

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Summary

Both proposals share a common principle: agentic assets should be first-class, enterprise-distributable resources — discoverable and usable directly from the developer's IDE or CLI, without operational overhead.

#	Feature	Core Ask
1	Centralized Agentic Library	Extend .github-private to host all agentic resource types, accessible via slash-commands
2	Reusable Agentic Workflows	Allow repos to register enterprise-wide slash-commands that run workflows locally

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