agent-customization

To customize VS Code Copilot agents, you define and govern primitives like workspace instructions, prompts, hooks, and custom agents within a structured framework. This ensures consistent agent behavior and standardized configurations across your development environments.

Copilot agent customization primitives are foundational components like workspace instructions, hooks, prompts, and skills. You need them to standardize agent behavior, enforce governance, and guide the creation and debugging of custom agents within VS Code.

Yes, you can apply Copilot agent customizations across both user and workspace environments. The framework provides structured guidance to ensure safe, discoverable, and maintainable agent configurations consistently throughout different scopes.

The best way to structure and debug VS Code Copilot skills is to create a SKILL.md file with required frontmatter and body guidance, using optional references for deep documentation. This framework supports progressive loading to keep skills lean while enabling debugging.

Copilot custom agents behave inconsistently when workspace instructions, prompts, and hooks lack standardized governance. Using a structured framework to encapsulate required frontmatter and body guidance ensures safe, discoverable, and maintainable agent configurations.

To start defining Copilot agent customizations, you create or update the SKILL.md file within the .github/skills/agent-customization directory in your repository, applying the framework to enforce primitives and configurations.