---
title: "agentrc"
description: "Skills for AI-assisted repository priming: generate copilot-instructions.md, area instructions, and nested AGENTS.md files."
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/agentrc
last-updated: 2026-10-24
---

# agentrc
Skills for AI-assisted repository priming: generate copilot-instructions.md, area instructions, and nested AGENTS.md files.
- Slug: agentrc
- Publisher: Microsoft
- Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/agentrc
- Manifest: plugin/plugin.json
- Version: 2.1.0
- License: MIT
- Category (editorial): other
- Skills: 4 (area-instructions, nested-detail, nested-hub, root-instructions)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 1109
- Repository created: 2026-01-29
- Repository last pushed: 2026-10-22
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/agentrc
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What agentrc does, in the publisher's words

Agent Plugins 1.0 package for AI-assisted repository priming. It provides portable skills that generate instruction files for GitHub Copilot and other compatible AI coding assistants.

The package uses the standard layout: plugin.json at this directory's root and one SKILL.md in each immediate child of skills/.

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/agentrc/HEAD/plugin/README.md

## Skills

- area-instructions: Generate a concise.instructions.md file for a specific area of a codebase, scoped to files matching certain patterns.
- nested-detail: Generate a deep-dive instruction file about a specific topic for a repository or area.
- nested-hub: Generate a lean AGENTS.md hub file for a repository or area, including recommended topics for detail files.
- root-instructions: Generate a concise.github/copilot-instructions.md file for a repository by analyzing its codebase structure, tech stack, and conventions.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.