ci: initial sync with canonical/copilot-collections
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Merged initial sync with canonical/copilot-collections, adding generated GitHub instructions and skills. Introduces a weekly CI job to detect upstream releases and auto-create update PRs. Approved and merged.
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Initial sync with [canonical/copilot-collections](https://github.com/canonical/copilot-collections).
Also adds a CI job from copilot-collections that runs once a week, checks for new releases, and creates a PR if there's been an update.
The `.github/skills/` and `.github/instructions/` are generated by copilot-collections. Feel free to read through them, but the contents shouldn't be modified here.
### Q & A
**Why Snapcraft?**
Snapcraft is a good proving ground because it gets a fair amount of activity and I review most PRs.
**Can I use these instructions locally?**
Yes. For Copilot CLI, they're loaded automatically for Snapcraft.
If you want them to work for other projects, then ensure your local copy of Snapcraft has these instructions and run `export COPILOT_CUSTOM_INSTRUCTIONS_DIRS=<path-to-snapcraft>`.
`/instructions` in copilot CLI will show you what's been loaded.
**Will we add this to all our repos?**
Likely, depending on how this trial goes.
**Does it improve the reviews?**
I think so, but you can judge that yourself. Here's the same doc change [with](https://github.com/canonical/snapcraft/pull/6194) and [without](https://github.com/canonical/snapcraft/pull/6195) the instructions.
Copilot reviews on GH are a bit annoying because they only leave so many comments per review, so you have to do many iterations. They aren't that deterministic either.
Here are a few comments that are based on the custom instructions
<img width="636" height="192" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/28c9ebec-bc94-45ff-acb6-c4d4ecd298f3" />
<img width="636" height="192" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/85f97765-e0f4-49f2-b749-885307e16c34" />
<img width="636" height="192" alt="image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/24560756-a530-4f05-bc5e-724709230a67" />
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- [x] I've followed the [contribution guidelines](https://github.com/canonical/snapcraft/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).
- [x] I've signed the [CLA](http://www.ubuntu.com/legal/contributors/).
- [x] I've successfully run `make lint && make test`.
- [ ] I've added or updated any relevant documentation.
- [ ] In documents I changed, I [added a meta description](https://canonical-starflow.readthedocs-hosted.com/how-to/add-a-page-meta-description/) if one was missing.
- [ ] I've updated the relevant release notes.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | — | Merged initial sync with canonical/copilot-collections, adding generated GitHub instructions and skills. Introduces a weekly CI job to detect upstream releases and auto-create update PRs. Approved and merged. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged initial sync with canonical/copilot-collections. Adds a weekly CI job to update .github/skills/ and .github/instructions/ from tagged releases. Maintainer confirmed the workflow and agreed to skip full tests for .github changes. | |
| qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6 | — | — | Merged sync with canonical/copilot-collections, adding generated GitHub instructions and skills. Added a weekly CI job to auto-fetch new releases. Approved test suite filtering for GitHub file changes. |
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Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #327 ci: initial sync with canonical/copilot-collections | imagecraft | merged | Merged an experimental CI sync with canonical/copilot-collections to enable copilot collections testing in Imagecraft. Approved by two reviewers and merged despite failing spread tests on older Ubuntu versions. | |
| #2663 ci: initial sync with canonical/copilot-collections | charmcraft | merged | Merged sync with canonical/copilot-collections. Added Copilot instructions, skills, and auto-sync workflow to charmcraft. Approved by three reviewers and passed CI checks. Type-check warnings were non-blocking. | |
| #2796 ci: give copilot collections job the right perms | charmcraft | merged | Merged changes granting write permissions for contents and pull requests to the copilot collections update workflow, replicating canonical/snapcraft#6352. Approved by one reviewer and passed CI checks. | |
| #1388 ✨ Set up Copilot instructions | craft-parts | closed | Implemented. Added .github/.copilot-collections.yaml to configure Copilot collections, created .github/instructions/ with formatting rules and PR comment directives, and established an automated workflow to sync collections from the canonical repository. | |
| #1655 ci: add copilot-collections config | craft-parts | merged | Merged after approval. Updates copilot collections configuration and workflow permissions. CI passed after resolving an initial conventional commit title check. Changes affect 4 files with 98 additions and 41 deletions. | |
| #381 build: Add copilot instructions and collections | craft-store | merged | Merged after approval and passing CI checks. Adds Copilot instructions and collections to the build, replicating canonical/imagecraft#327. Intentionally retains older collection versions to enable an updater workflow. Changed 21 files. | |
| #1389 docs: add GitHub Copilot instructions and setup validation workflow | craft-parts | closed | Added GitHub Copilot instructions and a CI validation workflow. After iterative revisions, the closed pull request was superseded by copilot collections. | |
| #397 Add write permissions to copilot-collections-update workflow | imagecraft | merged | Merged. Adds contents and pull-requests write permissions to the copilot-collections-update workflow, replicating a fix from canonical/charmcraft#2796. Approved by one reviewer and passed CI checks. |