Adding Copilot Skills

[mrm9084]

Description

Adding copilot skills to:

• Deal with CI failure/debugging
• Generating Samples
• Dealing with the sync/async pattern in the library.

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• The pull request does not introduce [breaking changes]
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• Pull request includes test coverage for the included changes.

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR adds GitHub Copilot “skills” documentation to help contributors follow established project patterns (CI debugging, writing samples, and keeping sync/async implementations mirrored), and aligns CI formatting/lint ordering with the guidance.

Changes:

• Reordered the CI workflow to run black before pylint/mypy.
• Added three Copilot skill guides: CI failure debugging, sample authoring, and the sync/async mirroring pattern.
• Updated Copilot instructions to emphasize running black before pylint/mypy and to codify “new feature” expectations (sample + tests).

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 5 out of 5 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
.github/workflows/validate.yml	Moves black earlier in the validation sequence (before pylint/mypy).
.github/skills/sync-async-pattern/SKILL.md	Documents the repo’s sync/async mirroring approach and key implementation patterns.
.github/skills/samples/SKILL.md	Defines conventions and guidance for creating/updating samples (including lint expectations).
.github/skills/ci-failure-debugging/SKILL.md	Provides a step-by-step guide to reproduce and fix CI failures locally.
.github/copilot-instructions.md	Updates Copilot guidance to run black first and to require samples + tests for new features.

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