See how Copilot prompts/instructions/agents/skills can be used

[bwateratmsft]

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More here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/customization/overview

[bwateratmsft]

Example: tell Copilot that the Docker extension is now the Container Tools extension, to help its out-of-date training data

[bwateratmsft]

Some thoughts--

Prompts: not super interesting for us. I think that users can make use of our tools without complex prompts.

Instructions: probably interesting to provide some for Dockerfiles and Compose files, with some best practices. Maybe Remy Suen (@rcjsuen) has some thoughts on what we should include?

Custom agents: Still a proposed API. But we could have a Containers agent with some specific instructions and all our MCP tools (and probably some of the relevant builtin ones) enabled.

Skills: very similar to instructions/agents, but "newer"

[rcjsuen]

Brandon Waterloo [MSFT] (@bwateratmsft) Hi Brandon, sorry for missing the ping. For clarity, you are referring to the Copilot agent generating and analyzing files to ensure they conform to best practices, right?

[bwateratmsft]

Yeah, that's the thought