[External Plugin]: squad-pod

Plugin name

squad-pod

Short description

Pixel art office where your Squad agents come to life as animated characters. A GitHub Copilot app canvas that shows the current project's Squad roster and follows the joined session's live agent activity.

GitHub repository

swigerb/squad-pod

Plugin path inside the repository

plugins/squad-pod

Ref to review

canvas-v0.1.0

Commit SHA to review

16d33ae623f82b7c10a5d46f892bcc98b97b39d6

Version

0.1.0

License identifier

MIT

Author name

Brian Swiger

Author URL

https://www.mightybs.com/

Homepage URL

Keywords

squad, copilot, pixel-art, agents, office, canvas

Additional notes for reviewers

Windows desktop preview for the GitHub Copilot app, not the GitHub Desktop Git client. This is separate from the Squad Pod VS Code extension/VSIX.

Qualified natively in GitHub Copilot app 1.1.34 (bundled runtime 1.0.102, Windows x64) against this exact tag: marketplace install with 103/103 matching payload checksums, render, read-only office actions, live sub-agent activity, opt-in layout editing, disable/enable, marketplace removal, and controlled restart/resume. Public acceptance and scope: swigerb/squad-pod#182 (including restart receipt swigerb/squad-pod#182 (comment)). macOS, Linux, WSL and remote sessions are not supported in this preview. Remaining pre-non-preview qualification is tracked separately in swigerb/squad-pod#218; no full native/REAL/device parity claim is made.

The canvas opens only in the exact joined project containing .squad/ or .ai-team/; otherwise it fails closed. It is read-only by default and layout saving is opt-in. The plugin ships assets/preview.png and its namespaced extension under com.github.copilot/extensions/squad-pod/. End users install the prebuilt plugin; no npm build or VSIX is needed.

Licensing: code and the furniture, floor, wall, carpet and pet art are MIT (Squad Pod and adapted Pixel Agents portions). The bundled JIK-A-4 MetroCity character sprites are used under the creator's stated permission and are not represented as MIT. Premium tilesets are not bundled. See the exact release's notices: https://github.com/swigerb/squad-pod/blob/16d33ae623f82b7c10a5d46f892bcc98b97b39d6/plugins/squad-pod/THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.

Local pre-checks on this exact tree: shared validateExternalPlugin under publicSubmission and marketplace policies reported 0 errors and 0 warnings; vally lint (@microsoft/vally 0.20.0) passed. Local CLI install smoke was not run; the upstream intake gate must establish that result. Native acceptance is separate from CLI install smoke.

This owner-approved submission is tracked at swigerb/squad-pod#184. A subsequent Canvas 0.1.1 preview is being prepared separately; this submission deliberately pins the already-qualified 0.1.0 and does not apply its native evidence to a later build. Submission, maintainer acceptance and marketplace listing remain separate states.

Submission checklist

The plugin lives in a public GitHub repository.
The ref and/or sha I provided is immutable (release tag and/or full 40-character commit SHA), not a branch.
This submission follows this repository's contribution, security, and responsible AI policies.
This plugin is not already listed in the Awesome Copilot marketplace.

✅ External plugin intake passed

This submission passed automated intake validation and quality checks and is ready for maintainer review.

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Plugin: squad-pod
Repository: https://github.com/swigerb/squad-pod
Ref: canvas-v0.1.0
SHA: 16d33ae623f82b7c10a5d46f892bcc98b97b39d6

Reviewer signals

These are non-blocking heuristics for maintainer review; they are not evidence of misconduct or low quality.

Signal	Result
Repository age	244 day(s)
Repository activity	0 watchers
Repository counts	16 stars · 0 watchers · 3 forks · 1 open issues/PRs

Quality gate summary

Legend: ✅ pass · ⚠️ warning · 🛑 fail

Gate	Status
spec compliance	✅ pass
vally lint	✅ pass
install smoke test	✅ pass
version match	✅ pass
ref/sha consistency	✅ pass
canvas structure	✅ pass

spec compliance: pass
vally lint: pass
install smoke test: pass
version match: pass
ref/sha consistency: pass
canvas structure: pass
overall: pass

spec compliance output (✅ pass)

Agent Plugins v1.0.0 manifest checks passed for plugin.json.

vally lint output (✅ pass)

0 skill(s) linted

install smoke test output (✅ pass)

Install smoke test succeeded. Verified /tmp/external-plugin-quality-nIjXHN/copilot-home/.copilot/installed-plugins/external-plugin-intake/squad-pod/plugin.json.

Version match output

- canvas-v0.1.0: matched version "0.1.0" at "plugins/squad-pod/plugin.json".
- 16d33ae623f82b7c10a5d46f892bcc98b97b39d6: matched version "0.1.0" at "plugins/squad-pod/plugin.json".

Ref/SHA consistency output

source.ref "canvas-v0.1.0" resolves to the same commit as source.sha "16d33ae623f82b7c10a5d46f892bcc98b97b39d6".

Canvas structure output

- canvas-v0.1.0: found "plugins/squad-pod/com.github.copilot/extensions" with entry point "plugins/squad-pod/com.github.copilot/extensions/squad-pod/extension.mjs".
- 16d33ae623f82b7c10a5d46f892bcc98b97b39d6: found "plugins/squad-pod/com.github.copilot/extensions" with entry point "plugins/squad-pod/com.github.copilot/extensions/squad-pod/extension.mjs".

Canonical external.json payload

{
  "name": "squad-pod",
  "description": "Pixel art office where your Squad agents come to life as animated characters. A GitHub Copilot app canvas that shows the current project's Squad roster and follows the joined session's live agent activity.",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "author": {
    "name": "Brian Swiger",
    "url": "https://www.mightybs.com/"
  },
  "repository": "https://github.com/swigerb/squad-pod",
  "license": "MIT",
  "keywords": [
    "squad",
    "copilot",
    "pixel-art",
    "agents",
    "office",
    "canvas"
  ],
  "source": {
    "source": "github",
    "repo": "swigerb/squad-pod",
    "path": "plugins/squad-pod",
    "ref": "canvas-v0.1.0",
    "sha": "16d33ae623f82b7c10a5d46f892bcc98b97b39d6"
  }
}

/rerun-intake

/request-fixes Can you add a README.md to the root of the plugin so that it will show more info on the website.

🛠️ Changes requested by a maintainer

Maintainer aaronpowell used /request-fixes to move this submission to requires-submitter-fixes.

Requested fixes

Can you add a README.md to the root of the plugin so that it will show more info on the website.

Once you've addressed these, edit the issue or comment /rerun-intake to send it back through intake for review.

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