Using Custom Instructions with Copilot to enhance our prompts

[@serhiikrechko]

The GH Copilot team, please keep on going that way, please! This feature is very useful in daily life.

[@DougToppin]

Impressive example of while AI/copilot may not be able to develop all of your code, it can significantly reduce the time required and provide better standardization. The key point is to learn how and to take advantage of the tools that are available. tks for posting this very practical example.

[@rafaelsanchezmartinez9393]

Right now these instruction works for the chat, would be handy having them for commit generation, I would probably use these instructions there a lot!!! Keep up the good work!!

[@mishak47]

Mind blown 😯

[@MidSeasonGroup]

This is great, it needs to live in the terminal. Have your guys call their guys and figure it out.

[@modoulaminceesay9211]

Tried it with the nextjs project i am working on. its quite good

[@arjun6070]

Nice Practical example. By the way What's the theme you are using

[@unexpectedkAs]

Very interesting! I wonder how much time until i dont have to copy paste and or create bash files, and copilot directly changes the actual files?

[@christianstork1049]

But doesn't Copilot take all the files that are open into account, i.e., just having them opened would have had the same effect, correct?

[@code]

For the examples shown, yes, but what Rob didn't show is how you can also add text to support the files. Something like "Code only" if you don't want explanations, or "use Aussie slang" if you want to lighten the mood.

[@QuantumXdeveloper]

It's a good example, however its lacking in agentic capabilities like cursor did.

[@luciusrex]

I love vs code ai, and typescript!

[@loquek]

And we are all fine with the use of require here... /s

[@barmooj]

I think each instruction entry should have a hint like short field to help copilot choose what reference to load. For example if l want copilot to generate git messages in a specific format l would pass a hint like “git message rules” and so on

[@Joe-SoftwareEngineer]

"Experimental" 🐈😻😻🐈😻😻

[@Shubham-cu7uy]

Do these custom instructions work in inline chat as well?

[@EMRAN994]

🤯🤯🤯

[@arif-uddin]

I think it would be more accessible if there was a config file or something instead of specifying it in the settings.

[@Safwannawaz786Safwannawa-qn3rb]

😂😂🎉😢😅😢