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I built an idea-to-repo CLI with Github copilot
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I built an idea-to-repo CLI with Github copilot

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I built idea-2-repo, a CLI that takes plain-English product ideas and turns them into a structured starter repository — complete with docs, TODOs, architecture outlines, and source scaffolding — by leveraging GitHub Copilot CLI’s natural-language coding agent directly in the terminal. What I built idea2repo aims to remove blank-project friction by generating a ready-to-use project skeleton from one simple idea prompt. Core capabilities ✔ Idea normalization + project classification ✔ Architecture suggestion with Copilot CLI ✔ Scaffold generation (docs, TODOs, source files) ✔ Offline fallback (REASONING_BACKEND=offline) ✔ Dry-run mode for safe previews 1) Environment & Repo Context I ensured tool versions and repository context were set up before generation. 2) Validation Checks I verified the core validation pipeline end-to-end. Lint & Build Unit / Integration Tests E2E Tests 3) Copilot CLI Usage I confirmed Copilot CLI availability and used it to shape architecture ideas. Copilot Versi

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