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Install: Copilot CLI
Register the marketplace, install both plugins as a pair, verify, and update them together.
CLIInstall: Desktop app
The GitHub Copilot desktop app / VS Code Settings → Extensions → Copilot → Plugins path.
DesktopInstall: VS Code notes
What differs for VS Code, plus the non-plugin, MCP-only alternative.
VS CodeArchitecture
Plugin vs. MCP server: the two invocation surfaces, and the known version-pinning gap.
ReferenceEnterprise Push
Force-installing this plugin org-wide via Copilot enterprise-managed settings.
AdminWhat this repository ships
hve-squad-plugin is never hand-edited. Its content is
regenerated only when hve-squad cuts a release, extracted from that
release's immutable git tag — never from a live working tree or a moving branch. It
packages three things:
27 agents
Every Squad Copilot agent under agents/squad/ — the coordinator, federation coordinator, and the full specialist cast (implementor, reviewer, researcher, challenger, scribe, and more).
The squad skill + 7 invocation skills
The core operating-procedure skill under skills/squad/, plus invocations/: squad-run, squad-doctor, squad-document, squad-federation, squad-governance-report, squad-init-hooks, and squad-learn.
hooks.json enforcement
Best-effort, deterministic hook scripts (preToolUse, postToolUse, subagentStop, sessionStart, userPromptSubmitted) that back-stop the squad's impactful-action gate, single-writer state rule, and dispatch guards — see hooks/README.md for exactly what each one can and cannot enforce.
.mcp.json wiring
Registers the companion @hve-squad/mcp server over stdio, so a delegated-mode host can call the squad as tools (squad_research, squad_plan, squad_review, squad_architect, squad_run) in addition to direct agent dispatch.
Related repositories
Peter-N91/hve-squad
The source repository. Builds the APM package, the squad's authoring source tree, and cuts the release tags this plugin is extracted from.
SourcePeter-N91/hve-squad-mcp
The companion MCP server this plugin's .mcp.json registers — 5 coarse intent tools over stdio, for delegated-mode tool-call invocation instead of direct agent dispatch.