diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index eb01429..4daa532 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ Enhance your GitHub Copilot experience with community-contributed instructions,
GitHub Copilot provides three main ways to customize AI responses and tailor assistance to your specific workflows, team guidelines, and project requirements:
-| **🔧 Custom Instructions** | **📝 Reusable Prompts** | **🎭 Custom Chat Modes** |
-| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| **🔧 Custom Instructions** | **📝 Reusable Prompts** | **🎭 Custom Chat Modes** |
+| --- | --- | --- |
| Define common guidelines for tasks like code generation, reviews, and commit messages. Describe *how* tasks should be performed
**Benefits:**
• Automatic inclusion in every chat request
• Repository-wide consistency
• Multiple implementation options | Create reusable, standalone prompts for specific tasks. Describe *what* should be done with optional task-specific guidelines
**Benefits:**
• Eliminate repetitive prompt writing
• Shareable across teams
• Support for variables and dependencies | Define chat behavior, available tools, and codebase interaction patterns within specific boundaries for each request
**Benefits:**
• Context-aware assistance
• Tool configuration
• Role-specific workflows |
> **💡 Pro Tip:** Custom instructions only affect Copilot Chat (not inline code completions). You can combine all three customization types - use custom instructions for general guidelines, prompt files for specific tasks, and chat modes to control the interaction context.
@@ -35,11 +35,11 @@ Team and project-specific instructions to enhance GitHub Copilot's behavior for
- [Python Coding Conventions](instructions/python.md) - Python coding conventions and guidelines
-> 💡 **Usage**: Copy these instructions to your `.github/copilot-instructions.md` file or create task-specific `.instructions.md` files in your workspace.
+> 💡 **Usage**: Copy these instructions to your `.github/copilot-instructions.md` file or create task-specific `.github/.instructions.md` files in your workspace's `.github/instructions` folder.
## 🎯 Reusable Prompts
-Ready-to-use prompt templates for specific development scenarios and tasks. These `.prompt.md` files can be executed directly in VS Code chat as slash commands or through the `Chat: Run Prompt` command.
+Ready-to-use prompt templates for specific development scenarios and tasks, defining prompt text with a specific mode, model, and available set of tools.
### Backend Development
- [ASP.NET Minimal API with OpenAPI](prompts/aspnet-minimal-api-openapi.prompt.md) - Generate API endpoints with proper documentation
@@ -61,17 +61,17 @@ Ready-to-use prompt templates for specific development scenarios and tasks. Thes
-> 💡 **Usage**: Use `/prompt-name` in VS Code chat or run `Chat: Run Prompt` command. Prompt files support variables like `${input:name}` for dynamic content.
+> 💡 **Usage**: Use `/prompt-name` in VS Code chat, run `Chat: Run Prompt` command, or hit the run button while you have a prompt open.
## 🧩 Custom Chat Modes
-You can define your own chat modes for specific scenarios, such as planning a new feature or getting the AI to behave a certain way when in a particular mode. Custom chat modes are defined in Markdown files with the `.chatmode.md` suffix and can be stored in the `.github` folder of your workspace or placed in your user profile. They should up in the "Ask/Edit/Agent" dropdown in the chat view.
+Custom chat modes define specific behaviors and tools for GitHub Copilot Chat, enabling enhanced context-aware assistance for particular tasks or workflows.
- [Database Administrator Chat Mode](chatmodes/PostgreSQL%20DBA.chatmode.md) - Work with PostgreSQL databases using the PostgreSQL extension.
- [Planning mode instructions](chatmodes/planner.chatmode.md) - Generate an implementation plan for new features or refactoring existing code.
- [4.1 Beast Mode](chatmodes/4.1-Beast.chatmode.md) - A custom prompt to get GPT 4.1 to behave like a top-notch coding agent.
-Use `Chat > Configure Chat Modes` from the Command Palette to add/edit custom modes.
+> 💡 **Usage**: Create new chat modes using the command `Chat: Configure Chat Modes...`, then switch your chat mode in the Chat input from _Agent_ or _Ask_ to your own mode.
## 📚 Additional Resources
diff --git a/update-readme.js b/update-readme.js
index c87c84c..8fa9470 100755
--- a/update-readme.js
+++ b/update-readme.js
@@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ function generateReadme() {
// Get all chat mode files - we'll use this to update the chat modes section
const chatmodeFiles = fs.existsSync(chatmodesDir)
? fs
- .readdirSync(chatmodesDir)
- .filter((file) => file.endsWith(".chatmode.md"))
- .sort()
+ .readdirSync(chatmodesDir)
+ .filter((file) => file.endsWith(".chatmode.md"))
+ .sort()
: [];
// Update instructions section - rebuild the whole list
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ function generateReadme() {
// Replace the current chat modes section with the updated one
const newChatmodesSection =
- '## 🎭 Custom Chat Modes\n\nCustom chat modes define specific behaviors and tools for GitHub Copilot Chat, enabling enhanced context-aware assistance for particular tasks or workflows. These `.chatmode.md` files can be loaded by selecting "Chat with Custom Mode" from the Copilot menu.' +
+ "## 🎭 Custom Chat Modes\n\nCustom chat modes define specific behaviors and tools for GitHub Copilot Chat, enabling enhanced context-aware assistance for particular tasks or workflows." +
chatmodesListContent;
currentReadme = currentReadme.replace(
@@ -401,9 +401,9 @@ function generateReadme() {
const newChatmodesSection =
"## 🎭 Custom Chat Modes\n\n" +
- 'Custom chat modes define specific behaviors and tools for GitHub Copilot Chat, enabling enhanced context-aware assistance for particular tasks or workflows. These `.chatmode.md` files can be loaded by selecting "Chat with Custom Mode" from the Copilot menu.\n\n' +
+ "Custom chat modes define specific behaviors and tools for GitHub Copilot Chat, enabling enhanced context-aware assistance for particular tasks or workflows.\n\n" +
chatmodesListContent +
- '\n\n> 💡 **Usage**: Create a `.chatmode.md` file in your workspace or repository, then select "Chat with Custom Mode" from the Copilot Chat menu and select your chat mode file.\n';
+ '\n\n> 💡 **Usage**: Create new chat modes using the command `Chat: Configure Chat Modes...`, then switch your chat mode in the Chat input from _Agent_ or _Ask_ to your own mode.\n';
// Insert before Additional Resources section
const additionalResourcesPos = currentReadme.indexOf(