About plugins for GitHub Copilot 명령 줄 인터페이스 (CLI)

Plugins provide a way to distribute custom CLI functionality. You can use a plugin to add a preconfigured set of capabilities to 부조종사 CLI.

What is a plugin?

• A distributable package that extends 부조종사 CLI's functionality.
• A bundle of components in a single installable unit.

What plugins contain

A plugin can contain some or all of the following components:

• Custom agents — Specialized AI assistants (*.agent.md files in agents/)
• Skills — Discrete callable capabilities (skills subdirectories in skills/, containing a SKILL.md file)
• Hooks — Event handlers that intercept agent behavior (a hooks.json file in the plugin root, or in hooks/)
• MCP server configurations — Model Context Protocol integrations (a .mcp.json file in the plugin root, or an mcp.json file in .github/)
• LSP server configurations — Language Server Protocol integrations (an lsp.json file in the plugin root, or in .github/)

Why use plugins?

Plugins provide the following benefits:

• Reusability across projects
• Team standardization of CLI configuration
• Share domain expertise (for example, by providing the skills of a Rails expert, or a Kubernetes expert)
• Encapsulate complex MCP server setups

Where can I get plugins?

You can install plugins from:

• A marketplace
• A repository
• A local path

A marketplace is a location where developers can publish, discover, install, and manage plugins. It's a bit like an app store—but for plugins.

Examples of marketplaces include:

• copilot-plugins (added by default)
• awesome-copilot (added by default)
• claude-code-plugins
• claudeforge-marketplace

For more about adding marketplaces and installing plugins from them, see Finding and installing plugins for GitHub Copilot 명령 줄 인터페이스 (CLI).

Plugins compared with manual configuration

Any functionality that you could add with a plugin, you could also add by configuring 부조종사 CLI manually—for example, by adding custom agent profiles or MCP servers. However, plugins provide several advantages over manual configuration:

Feature	Manual configuration in a repository	Plugin
Scope	Single repository	Any project
Sharing	Manual copy/paste	/plugin install command
Versioning	Git history	Marketplace versions
Discovery	Searching repositories	Marketplace browsing

Further reading

• Creating a plugin for GitHub Copilot 명령 줄 인터페이스 (CLI)
• GitHub Copilot CLI plugin reference