Build a CRUD employee directory app with Copilot handoffs
The poster prompted Copilot to create an employee directory with full CRUD and 20 seeded profiles, using a scaffold agent for Next.js, and got a working app. ·
Done withGitHub Copilot
- What they did
- The poster tested GitHub Copilot custom agent handoffs by prompting it to create an employee directory with full CRUD and 20 seeded profiles. They used a SCAFFOLD agent to set up Next.js, shadcn, and Neon through CLIs, then handed off to DESIGN, DESIGN DEBUG for planning, and finally a general agent for implementation; when Neon was wrong, the person fixed it from the docs and updated the scaffold agent instructions.
- How it went
- It produced a fully working, usable app, and the poster said the build experience was good. The main shortfall was that handoffs were not automatic despite send: true, so they had to click the next-agent button manually.
- Worth knowing
- The biggest payoff was reusable learning: after one fix, they improved the SCAFFOLD agent file so future projects could reuse the better setup instructions.
Try it yourself with GitHub Copilot
Create a [framework, e.g. Next.js] employee directory app with full create, read, update and delete for [fields, e.g. name, title, department, email]. Seed it with [20] realistic sample profiles and scaffold the project first. Run the app and fix any errors until it works, then tell me how to start it and what you built.
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Source: Reddit · Oct 29, 2025
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