Learn how to shape AI in VS Code around your workflow. In this video, Reynald introduces Customization in VS Code and shows how to configure AI using agents, skills, instructions, prompt files, and hooks.
Instead of relying on one-off prompts, you’ll learn how to define reusable building blocks that enforce standards, automate tasks, and create smarter development workflows.

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

🔎 Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Customization
00:24 What is Customization in VS Code
01:37 Why does Customization matter
02:14 Demo 
03:35 Learn more
03:43 In summary

🔗 Links:
https://aka.ms/VSCL-Cust-Overview
https://aka.ms/vsc-learn

🎙️ Featuring: Reynald Adolphe

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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

VS Code has a centralized Agent Customizations UI accessible via the command palette or the chat gear icon that consolidates all AI workflow customization features in one place. These features include custom agents, agent skills, custom instructions, prompt files, and hooks. Without customization, developers repeat context and expectations with every request, leading to inconsistent results. The UI allows creating and managing all these components, and a slash command in chat lets you generate them directly without writing an extension.

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