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Agent skills - Visual Studio Code Tutorial
From the course: Build with AI: Agent Mode in Visual Studio Code
Agent skills
Let's turn our attention now to AgentSkills which also will go under the .github folder alongside of Prompts, Instructions, and Agents. AgentSkills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that Copilot can load when relevant. But let's go ahead and ask Copilot what the difference is. Can you explain what the difference is between AgentSkills, Custom Instructions, and Prompt Files? And now we'll get a nice clear explanation between each of them. Now our focus here is on agent skills. And what I'd like to show you is that there is a repository on GitHub called Awesome Copilot. pilot, found here, that has a lot of resources that's been put together by a community of dedicated developers. And these resources include custom instructions, prompt files, agent skills, which we see right here. Now, agent skills are an open standard that works across multiple AI agents. And what I'm going to want to do is choose one here that we can experiment with. Specifically this one right here…
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Introduction29s
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Agent mode in VS Code: Quick tour1m 37s
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Agent mode vs. Plan mode vs. Ask mode3m 4s
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When to use agent mode2m 26s
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Building an app with agent mode8m 3s
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Documenting with comments5m 53s
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Creating and managing custom agents3m 44s
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Custom prompts and custom instructions6m 29s
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Agent skills4m 37s
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Source control2m 26s
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Adding an MCP server4m 23s
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