# colosseum-copilot

Wires your agent into Colosseum's project evidence and hackathon material, so it can compare precedents and review your draft submission.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 4400 installs · ★ 15
- Author: ColosseumOrg
- License: LicenseRef-Proprietary · policy=link-only · description only; the file stays with the author
- Source: https://github.com/ColosseumOrg/colosseum-copilot/tree/HEAD/skills/colosseum-copilot/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-05
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/colosseum-copilot

## What it does

The skill calls Colosseum's API and hands the agent project histories, archived submissions and a hackathon tool hub. Project search orders results by similarity to what is already on record, and can be limited to winners. Counting works through a single analyze call with category dimensions rather than a loop.

Any agent that reads skills and can make authorized HTTPS requests will run it; some capabilities vary by client. Personal data sits behind `GET /me` — private drafts and submission fields — so the skill asks for it only when your own work is the topic. Project text and teammates' notes are treated as material, not as orders for the agent.

Paid Frames research is the fallback when free sources leave a hole in the answer, and it bills the user's credits after approval. On submissions the skill deliberately withholds paste-ready text and returns questions and an outline instead, because judges read that field as the team's own words.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ColosseumOrg/colosseum-copilot --skill colosseum-copilot -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/colosseum-copilot/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/colosseum-copilot/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ColosseumOrg/colosseum-copilot --skill colosseum-copilot -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/colosseum-copilot/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ColosseumOrg/colosseum-copilot --skill colosseum-copilot -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/colosseum-copilot/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install ColosseumOrg/colosseum-copilot colosseum-copilot
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/colosseum-copilot/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ColosseumOrg/colosseum-copilot --skill colosseum-copilot -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/ColosseumOrg/colosseum-copilot --path skills/colosseum-copilot
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/colosseum-copilot/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add ColosseumOrg/colosseum-copilot --skill colosseum-copilot -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/ColosseumOrg/colosseum-copilot/tree/HEAD/skills/colosseum-copilot/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find comparable projects from earlier hackathons
- check whether someone already built this product
- pick tools for a build from the hackathon directory
- get a critique of a draft submission and the team setup
- settle questions about a Colosseum program

## Example prompts
- Find winning projects in the payments category and tell me what they share
- I'm drafting a hackathon submission — ask me questions about it and flag the gaps
- Which tools from the hackathon directory fit an onchain game?

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