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Agent skills

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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