Skills for SDK

[medasmarathon]

Documentation shows guide for adding custom tool. Any way we can add skills or skills folder and/or skills restriction (allow, deny) for a session?

[github-actions]

Thank you for opening this issue @medasmarathon!

This looks like a feature request/question about adding skills management capabilities to the SDK. I've labeled this as both enhancement and question since you're asking about functionality that may or may not currently exist.

To help us better understand your use case, could you provide a bit more detail:

• Which SDK language are you using (.NET, Go, Node.js, or Python)?
• What specific skills management capabilities are you looking for (e.g., loading skills from a folder, allow/deny lists)?
• Are you looking to restrict which skills Copilot can use during a session?

This will help the maintainers provide a more targeted response.

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[SilentDemonSD]

Documentation shows guide for adding custom tool. Any way we can add skills or skills folder and/or skills restriction (allow, deny) for a session?

@medasmarathon Already there, check this might help you ! (If using Python)

Sample Implementation :

# asynio stuff pre handle it

from copilot import CopilotClient
from copilot.types import SessionConfig

is_streaming = True
session_config = SessionConfig(
    model="gpt-5",
    skill_directories=[".github/skills"], # Directories to load skills from
    streaming=True,
    disabled_skills=[""]  # List of skill names to disable
)

# Create and start client
client = CopilotClient()
await client.start()

# Create session
session = await client.create_session(
    config=session_config
)

# your code
# implementation 

Reference 

• copilot-sdk/python/copilot/types.py

  Line 218 in 7a3dcf3

  class SessionConfig(TypedDict, total=False):

• copilot-sdk/python/copilot/client.py

  Line 314 in cd85284

  async def create_session(self, config: Optional[SessionConfig] = None) -> CopilotSession: