GitHub Copilot now supports Agent Skills, enabling users to define and implement specialized tasks in a consistent and repeatable manner.
Agent Skills function as directories that house instructions, scripts, and various resources. Copilot automatically loads these skills when they are relevant to a user’s prompt.
This functionality is available across the Copilot coding agent, Copilot CLI, and within agent mode in Visual Studio Code Insiders. Support for skills is expected to arrive in the stable version of VS Code in early January.
When Copilot identifies a skill as pertinent to a given task, it proceeds to load and execute the instructions, incorporating any resources present in the skill directory.
Users have the option to develop their own skills or utilize those shared by others. Notable collections include the anthropics/skills repository and GitHub’s community-curated github/awesome-copilot collection.
For those who have previously configured skills for Claude Code within their repository’s .claude/skills directory, Copilot will automatically recognize and integrate them.
