Enhance your GitHub Copilot experience with community-contributed instructions, prompts, and configurations. Get consistent AI assistance that follows your team's coding standards and project requirements.

🎯 GitHub Copilot Customization Features

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
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.

📝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see our Contributing Guide for details on how to submit new instructions and prompts.

📋 Custom Instructions

Team and project-specific instructions to enhance GitHub Copilot's behavior for specific technologies and coding practices:

Angular Development Instructions - Instruction specific coding standards and best practices
ASP.NET REST API Development - Development specific coding standards and best practices
Azure Functions Typescript - Typescript specific coding standards and best practices
Bicep Code Best Practices - Practice specific coding standards and best practices
Blazor - Blazor specific coding standards and best practices
Cmake Vcpkg - Vcpkg specific coding standards and best practices
Copilot Process tracking Instructions - Instruction specific coding standards and best practices
C# Development - Development specific coding standards and best practices
.NET MAUI - MAUI specific coding standards and best practices
Genaiscript - Genaiscript specific coding standards and best practices
Generate Modern Terraform Code For Azure - Azure specific coding standards and best practices
Guidance for Localization - Localization specific coding standards and best practices
Markdown - Markdown specific coding standards and best practices
Next.js + Tailwind Development Instructions - Instruction specific coding standards and best practices
Python Coding Conventions - Convention specific coding standards and best practices

💡 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, defining prompt text with a specific mode, model, and available set of tools.

💡 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

Custom chat modes define specific behaviors and tools for GitHub Copilot Chat, enabling enhanced context-aware assistance for particular tasks or workflows.

💡 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

VS Code Copilot Customization Documentation - Official Microsoft documentation
GitHub Copilot Chat Documentation - Complete chat feature guide
Custom Chat Modes - Advanced chat configuration
VS Code Settings - General VS Code configuration guide

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🤝 Code of Conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

™️ Trademarks

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