You’ve probably been lied to about Custom Instructions. In this video, Reynald breaks down what custom instructions really are and how they enforce coding standards, conventions, and preferences automatically in VS Code.

Learn how to create reusable rulebooks for AI so your code follows best practices like SOLID principles and accessibility standards without repeating yourself every time.

See full series playlist: https://aka.ms/vsc-learn

🔎 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Custom Instructions
00:15 What are Custom Instructions
00:40 Demo
02:25 Creating new Custom Instructions
05:22 How Custom Instructions saves time
05:48 Learn more
06:00 In Summary

🔗 Links:
https://aka.ms/custom-instructions
https://aka.ms/AwesomeGC

🎙️ Featuring: Reynald Adolphe

#vscode #githubcopilot #ai #programming #softwareengineering

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight and powerful code editor developed by Microsoft, offering built-in support for multiple programming languages, debugging, and extensions. From this resource developers can learn about VSCode's features, extensions, and customization options to enhance their coding productivity and workflow.

Visual Studio Code

GitHub Copilot custom instructions in VS Code act as a persistent rulebook for the AI, letting developers define coding styles, conventions, and standards that Copilot automatically applies in every chat session. The tutorial demonstrates creating a SOLID principles instruction file for code refactoring and generating a WCAG accessibility instruction file using Copilot itself via the /create instructions command. Custom instructions are especially powerful for teams, ensuring consistent naming, formatting, and architectural patterns across a shared repository without manual review overhead.

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