HVE Core provides the complete collection of AI chat agents, prompts, instructions, and skills for VS Code with GitHub Copilot. This edition includes every artifact across all domains: development workflows, architecture, Azure DevOps, data science, design thinking, security, and more.

Use this edition when you want access to everything without choosing a focused collection.

Code review agents included (via coding-standards collection):

- **Functional Code Review** — Pre-PR branch diff reviewer for functional correctness, error handling, edge cases, and testing gaps

Supporting subagents included:

- **Codebase Researcher** — Searches workspace for code patterns, conventions, and implementations
- **External Researcher** — Retrieves external documentation, SDK references, and code samples
- **Phase Implementor** — Executes single implementation phases with change tracking
- **Artifact Validator** — Validates implementation work against plans and conventions
- **Prompt Tester** — Tests prompt files by following them literally in a sandbox
- **Prompt Evaluator** — Evaluates prompt execution results against quality criteria

Skills included:

- **PR Reference** — Generates PR reference XML files with commit history and diffs for pull request workflows
- **Video to GIF** — Converts video files to optimized GIF animations using FFmpeg two-pass palette optimization
