Hands-on GitHub Copilot labs

This is the non-fantasy companion track of Awesome Copilot Adventures. It adapts the imported Microsoft learning material into locally reproducible, step-by-step exercises. The original Instructions/Labs filenames and nested lab metadata are preserved; the exercises are not converted into adventures.

Start

1. Read the catalog.
2. Download a learner kit or prepare the environment from an existing clone.
3. Review Copilot boundaries.
4. For Spec Kit, use the versioned reference.
5. Open only the selected copy as the workspace root and record the baseline described by its lesson. The ZIP’s KIT-START.md explains the exact directory.

What changed

• All 25 imported preparation/exercise guides were audited individually.
• One new numbered hands-on exercise adds Spec Kit modernization, distinct from the existing greenfield and brownfield cases.
• Core examples run locally with synthetic data. Remote GitHub, cloud-agent, account changes, live SDK inference and profiling extensions are explicitly optional.
• Every Mermaid diagram uses the shared monochrome style, accessible title, legend and explanation.
• The audit report records findings and evidence, including what validation did not prove.

Source and publication

catalog.json is the machine-readable inventory. The root repository’s Astro pipeline builds these instructions under each language’s /hands-on/ route. There is no separate nested site or release pipeline.

LabFiles remain available as source, not an executable web service. The download catalog offers per-exercise ZIPs with bundled instructions, assets, licenses, file manifests and archive checksums. Instructor references are deliberately omitted by the preparation script and kits. Historical screenshots in Instructions/Labs/Media are retained with a provenance notice, not used as current setup instructions.

Licensing

Retain the Microsoft MIT license with redistributed fixtures. These community adaptations are maintained by this repository; they are not a claim of Microsoft course certification, support, or endorsement.