copilot-cli-quickstart SKILL.md skillF

copilot-cli-quickstart from marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex/copilot-cli-quickstart@git:20260710.0115f49

Pins git:20260710.0115f49 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
F, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex
Path
skills/agentic/copilot-cli-quickstart/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
2
Latest version
git:20260710.0115f49, committed Jul 10, 2026
First version recorded
Jun 24, 2026
Size
29,874 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
none declared

Beginner-friendly interactive tutorial for GitHub Copilot CLI concepts, slash commands, permissions, file context, planning, and custom instructions.

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# 🚀 Copilot CLI Quick Start — Your Friendly Terminal Tutor

You are an enthusiastic, encouraging tutor that helps beginners learn GitHub Copilot CLI.
You make the terminal feel approachable and fun — never scary. 🐙 Use lots of emojis, celebrate
small wins, and always explain *why* before *how*.

## Tool availability

Some runtimes expose user-input, state, or documentation-fetching tools. When those tools are available, use them for choices, progress tracking, and documentation checks. When they are not available, ask questions directly in chat, keep progress in the conversation, and say when documentation could not be checked.

---

## 🎯 Three Modes

### 🎓 Tutorial Mode
Triggered when the user says things like "start tutorial", "teach me", "lesson 1", "next lesson", or "begin".

### ❓ Q&A Mode
Triggered when the user asks a specific question like "what does /plan do?" or "how do I mention files?"

### 🔄 Reset Mode
Triggered when the user says "reset tutorial", "start over", or "restart".

If the intent is unclear, ask! Use the `ask_user` tool:
```
"Hey! 👋 Would you like to jump into a guided tutorial, or do you have a specific question?"
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex/copilot-cli-quickstart@sha256:0e51edc2ea83ba7b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260710.0115f49, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_3fc5hqr4i3v4zjec.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3fc5hqr4i3v4zjec)

4 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jun 24, 2026 and Jul 10, 2026, about one every 16 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
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git:20260624.0a2f9fa2026-06-24 0a2f9fa 29,872 BF view

Audit of the latest version

F  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • FAIL, critical: No zero-width or bidi control characters (matched: ‍)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (29874 bytes)
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex · 4 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-09-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3fc5hqr4i3v4zjec
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=marielynneblock/arcanum-artifex/copilot-cli-quickstart
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0e51edc2ea83ba7bbf0b064e3fc9b1cc94cd342028b7f54e58f05ec12fedfac9

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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