GitHub Copilot now supports Agent Skills

Source: GitHub Changelog

Agent Skills

You can now create Agent Skills to teach Copilot how to perform specialized tasks in a specific, repeatable way.

Agent Skills are folders containing instructions, scripts, and resources that Copilot automatically loads when relevant to your prompt. They work across:

• Copilot coding agent
• Copilot CLI
• Agent mode in Visual Studio Code Insiders (support coming to the stable version of VS Code in early January)

When Copilot determines a skill is relevant to your task, it loads the instructions and follows them—including any resources you’ve included in the skill directory.

Getting Started

• Write your own skills, or use skills shared by others, such as those in the anthropics/skills repository or GitHub’s community‑created github/awesome-copilot collection.
• If you’ve already set up skills for Claude Code in the .claude/skills directory in your repository, Copilot will pick them up automatically.

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