Turn GitHub Copilot in VS Code into a specialized AI teammate with custom agents, Agent Skills, and MCP integrations. We'll show you how to build agents for specific roles and wire them together with handoffs to create guided workflows. Walk away with practical patterns for making Copilot work the way your team works.

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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

A walkthrough of GitHub Copilot customization options in VS Code, covering instruction files, skills, prompt slash commands, custom agents, sub-agents, and hooks. Instruction files provide always-on global context for coding guidelines, while skills load dynamically on demand for domain-specific tasks. Custom agents act as role-based personas with specific tools and models, and can run as parallel sub-agents in isolated context windows to avoid bloating the main context. Hooks, available in the latest stable VS Code release, enable lifecycle-triggered automation such as enforcing formatting after agent edits or running security checks before tool calls. The recommended starting point is setting up instruction files via /init and exploring community examples in the awesome-copilot repo.

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