Learn how to create custom chat modes in VS Code for GitHub Copilot to enhance your workflow in large, complex projects with specialized AI configurations.
VS Code AI Customization - Learn to use custom instructions, prompt files, and custom chat modes to personalize AI code generation, reviews, and chat responses.
VS Code AI Customization: Learn to use custom instructions, prompt files, and custom chat modes to personalize AI code generation, reviews, and chat responses.
GitHub Copilot Custom Prompt Files & Folder Structure for Teams
Discover Rafferty Uy’s guide on structuring GitHub Copilot custom prompt files for team collaboration. Learn best practices and tips for effective prompt engineering.
Before generating SQL statements:
- Understand the relationship between the tables in the database.
- Determine the filtering criteria and conditions for data retrieval.
- Validate the expected outcome of the query.
- Think step-by-step and revalidate before responding.
Smaller prompts, better answers with GitHub Copilot Custom Instructions
Working with GitHub Copilot in VS Code amps out your efficiency as a programmer - but did you know that adding a simple markdown file can boost this efficiency even more, while *also* decreasing the size of your prompt? Custom Instructions can help you and your team do so much more with GitHub Copilot, and @rconery will show you how in this video.
🔎 Chapters:
00:12 Simple, automatic instructions
02:07 Custom Git commit messages
03:26 Customizing Copilot functionality in VS Code
05:00 Going all in with markdown files as instructions
🔗 Links:
Get Copilot: https://aka.ms/get-copilot
Instruction Snippets for JSONC: https://gist.github.com/robconery/f93d016ace16feb7156f9b7905f3f499
🎙️ Featuring: @rconery
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