Lean/Kaizen Copilot Instructions Template

A versioned, self-updating GitHub Copilot instruction template that keeps AI developer behaviour consistent across projects.

Set up in your project

Tell Copilot:

"Setup from asafelobotomy/copilot-instructions-template"

Copilot fetches SETUP.md and bootstraps your project automatically. No manual file copying required.

Update an existing installation

Tell Copilot:

"Update your instructions"

Copilot fetches UPDATE.md and performs a version-aware three-way merge.

All trigger phrases

See AGENTS.md for the full list of commands (health check, retrospective, skills, MCP, hooks, and more).

Version

Current template version: 5.1.0 — see CHANGELOG.md and MIGRATION.md.

Release automation

After a commit lands on main, GitHub runs the full workflow set first. When CI passes, the release workflow evaluates only consumer-facing paths: template/, .github/agents/, starter-kits/, SETUP.md, and UPDATE.md.

Changes outside that surface are treated as developer-only and do not produce a release. Consumer-facing changes do produce a release: feat commits keep a minor bump, fix and deps keep a patch bump, and non-releasable commit headers fall back to a forced patch release so consumer updates are still tagged and published.