GitHub's Copilot app guide explains four ways to customize Copilot for a codebase
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GitHub's Copilot app for Beginners guide describes four ways to tailor GitHub Copilot to a project: custom instructions, agent skills, custom agents, and MCP servers.
According to the guide, repository-wide guidance goes in .github/copilot-instructions.md, and path-specific rules go in files under .github/instructions that use an applyTo field.
The guide says these customizations work together, so Copilot can follow project conventions, run repeatable procedures, and connect to external tools without users repeating the same setup in each session.
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AIGitHub's latest GitHub Copilot app for Beginners guide describes four ways to tailor Copilot to a project: custom instructions, agent skills, custom agents, and MCP servers. Repository-wide guidance goes in .github/copilot-instructions.md, while path-specific rules use files in .github/instructions with an applyTo field. The guide says these customizations work together, so Copilot can follow project conventions, run repeatable procedures, and connect to external tools without users repeating the same setup each time.
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