Compatibilidad con diferentes tipos de instrucciones personalizadas

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This reference article provides details of which types of custom instructions are supported in various environments. For more information about the various types of custom instructions for GitHub Copilot, see About customizing GitHub Copilot responses.

GitHub.com

Copilot feature Types of custom instructions supported
Copilot Chat
  •  Personal instructions.
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Organization instructions.
Copilot coding agent
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
  •  Agent instructions (using AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or GEMINI.md files).
  •  Organization instructions.
Copilot code review
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
  •  Organization instructions.

Visual Studio Code

Copilot feature Types of custom instructions supported
Copilot Chat
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
  •  Agent instructions (using an AGENTS.md file).
Copilot coding agent
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
  •  Agent instructions (using AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or GEMINI.md files).
Copilot code review
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).

Visual Studio

Copilot feature Types of custom instructions supported
Copilot Chat
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
Copilot code review
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).

JetBrains IDEs

Copilot feature Types of custom instructions supported
Copilot Chat
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
Copilot coding agent
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
  •  Agent instructions (using AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or GEMINI.md files).
Copilot code review
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).

Eclipse

Copilot feature Types of custom instructions supported
Copilot Chat
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
Copilot coding agent
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
  •  Agent instructions (using AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or GEMINI.md files).
Copilot code review
  • Custom instructions are currently not supported.

Xcode

Copilot feature Types of custom instructions supported
Copilot Chat
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
Copilot coding agent
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
  •  Agent instructions (using AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md or GEMINI.md files).
Copilot code review
  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).

Copilot CLI

  •  Repository-wide instructions (using the .github/copilot-instructions.md file).
  •  Path-specific instructions (using .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files).
  •  Agent instructions (using an AGENTS.md file).

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