copilot-customization-workflow

Guides the agent through choosing, placing, authoring, and debugging the markdown and JSON files that customize the VS Code Copilot agent: project-wide and path-scoped instruction files, prompt files, custom agent definitions, hook configurations, and packaged skills. Covers team-shared versus personal scope, frontmatter and description writing, tool restriction, hook lifecycle wiring with the input and output contract, and diagnosing customizations that are silently ignored. Use when the user wants Copilot to follow project or personal conventions, asks to scaffold, review, or repair one of these files, wants to limit an agent's tools, or needs shell commands to run at agent lifecycle moments. Not for general coding questions, runtime error diagnosis, MCP server setup, or VS Code extension development. Trivial fixes need only the fast path and final checks.

Version

v1.0.0

Size

21 KB

Updated

2026-10-10

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