Agent skills let you package instructions and resources into reusable capabilities for your agent. Skills can be loaded on demand and called directly from chat using slash commands like /skill-name.

📌 Learn more: https://aka.ms/VSCode/AgentSkills
📌 Awesome GitHub Copilot: http://aka.ma/AwesomeGC

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.

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Agent Skills in VS Code let you define reusable instructions for your coding agent instead of writing long prompts repeatedly. By creating a skill (e.g., a slash command like /image-component), the agent reads the predefined instructions and builds components automatically. Skills can be created for UI components, migrations, and more. The GitHub Copilot awesome list offers a curated collection of agent skills, hooks, and workflows to extend GitHub Copilot further.

🧠 Want to give your coding agent new capabilities? Use Agent Skills in #VSCode