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# Practices, Not Prompts: Scale GitHub Copilot with AI-Ready Repositories


- **Date:** Thursday, Sep 24, 2026
- **Time:** 10:20–10:50 (30 min)
- **Room:** Stage 6
- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

A great Copilot session can unblock one developer, but team scale value begins when the repository itself makes architecture, conventions, development commands, tests, and validation easy to discover and when successful workflows stop disappearing into chat history. In this technical session, we will take a repository from a generic Copilot experience to an AI-ready development environment. We will encode the project knowledge and validation developers need, then package recurring workflows as reusable prompts, skills, plugins, and custom agents. Next, we will version and govern those resources, and publish them through a centralized internal marketplace. We will close by connecting these developer practices to GitHub Copilot enterprise managed settings and how you can configure these at scale. You will leave with a practical guidance for making Agentic workflows useful beyond a single developer while providing engineering velocity and keeping people responsible for what ships.

## Speaker

### [Luis Pujols](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@luis-pujols)

Staff Customer Success Architect, GitHub


## Related talks at this congress

- [Accelerating development and managing agents with the GitHub Copilot app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1783-accelerating) — Christopher Harrison
- [Going beyond the code through the GitHub Copilot App: how to unlock you and your team’s superpower](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1788-going-beyond-the) — Jenny Hwang
- [Agentic Code Validation and Repository Automation with Agentic Workflows](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1784-agentic-code) — Jose Palafox
- [The Autonomous Pull Request: Let Agents Ship Without Surrendering Control](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1791-the-autonomous-pull) — Sam Jarvinen

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## Links

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