Confirmed scenario
GitHub Copilot App Automations says it can turn existing agent skills into automations and lists skills from a configured repository. A newly merged top-level skill (skills/daily-brief) did not appear: the page showed 48 older skills, and searching for daily-bri returned no matches, even though the current master contained 55 skills, including skills/daily-brief.
Automations builds its catalog from the configured project's local checkout/current working tree rather than directly from the repository's latest GitHub default branch. The skill needed to exist as a top-level repository skill such as skills/daily-brief in the configured checkout.
After the configured checkout was updated to current master, the page still remained stale until fully quitting the Copilot App with Cmd+Q and relaunching it. After relaunch, daily-brief appeared.
Expected behavior
The Automations skill catalog should refresh automatically when the configured checkout changes, or provide an explicit Refresh/Reindex action and clearly explain that the catalog is sourced from the configured local checkout/current branch.
Workaround
Update or switch the configured local checkout to the branch containing the skill, then fully quit and relaunch the App. No supported standalone cache-reset command was found; users should not need to delete internal cache databases.
Environment
| Field |
Value |
| App version |
1.1.14 |
| OS |
macOS 26.6.2 |
| Theme |
GitHub |
| Path |
/workflows |
| Tenure |
Week 2 |
| Observed |
2026-08-27 |
Confirmed scenario
GitHub Copilot App Automations says it can turn existing agent skills into automations and lists skills from a configured repository. A newly merged top-level skill (
skills/daily-brief) did not appear: the page showed 48 older skills, and searching fordaily-brireturned no matches, even though the currentmastercontained 55 skills, includingskills/daily-brief.Automations builds its catalog from the configured project's local checkout/current working tree rather than directly from the repository's latest GitHub default branch. The skill needed to exist as a top-level repository skill such as
skills/daily-briefin the configured checkout.After the configured checkout was updated to current
master, the page still remained stale until fully quitting the Copilot App with Cmd+Q and relaunching it. After relaunch,daily-briefappeared.Expected behavior
The Automations skill catalog should refresh automatically when the configured checkout changes, or provide an explicit Refresh/Reindex action and clearly explain that the catalog is sourced from the configured local checkout/current branch.
Workaround
Update or switch the configured local checkout to the branch containing the skill, then fully quit and relaunch the App. No supported standalone cache-reset command was found; users should not need to delete internal cache databases.
Environment