| layout | post |
|---|---|
| title | We need practical AI workflows |
| date | 2025-11-17 08:40:00 +0000 |
| categories | posts |
| permalink | /posts/promptfiles-vs-instructions-vs-agents/ |
In VS Code, there are 3 main ways that you can guide Copilot AI to help you with software development tasks: Prompt Files, Custom Instructions, and Agents. Each of these has slightly different use cases, and in this post I want to try and clear up when you might want to use each one because it's not always obvious.
| namespace MemberAccessors | |
| { | |
| using System.Collections.Concurrent; | |
| using System.Linq.Expressions; | |
| using System.Reflection; | |
| #nullable enable | |
| /// <summary> | |
| /// A helper class for accessing fields and properties of an object in a performant way. | |
| /// </summary> | |
| public class MemberAccessor<T> |
| { | |
| "version": 1, | |
| "parameters": "", | |
| "projects": [ | |
| { | |
| "path" : "src/lib/MyProjectA.csproj", | |
| "frameworks": [ | |
| { | |
| "framework": "netcoreapp3.1", | |
| "topLevelPackages": [ |
| { | |
| "format": 1, | |
| "restore": { | |
| "C:\\Users\\test\\Downloads\\MainApplication.Xplat\\MachineReadable\\MyProjectA\\MyProjectA.csproj": {}, | |
| "C:\\Users\\test\\Downloads\\MainApplication.Xplat\\MachineReadable\\MyProjectB\\MyProjectB.csproj": {} | |
| }, | |
| "projects": { | |
| "C:\\Users\\test\\Downloads\\MainApplication.Xplat\\MachineReadable\\MyProjectA\\MyProjectA.csproj": { | |
| "version": "1.0.0", | |
| "restore": { |
| { | |
| "http-proxy": { | |
| "current": "1.16.2", | |
| "wanted": "1.18.1", | |
| "latest": "1.18.1", | |
| "location": "node_modules\\http-proxy" | |
| }, | |
| "lodash": { | |
| "current": "4.2.0", | |
| "wanted": "4.17.21", |
| { | |
| "dependencies": { | |
| "http-proxy": { | |
| "version": "1.16.2", | |
| "from": "http-proxy@1.16.2", | |
| "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/http-proxy/-/http-proxy-1.16.2.tgz", | |
| "dependencies": { | |
| "eventemitter3": { | |
| "version": "1.2.0", | |
| "from": "eventemitter3@1.x.x", |
| { | |
| "version": 1, | |
| "dependencies": { | |
| ".NETStandard,Version=v2.0": { | |
| "NETStandard.Library": { | |
| "type": "Direct", | |
| "requested": "[2.0.3, )", | |
| "resolved": "2.0.3", | |
| "contentHash": "st47PosZSHrjECdjeIzZQbzivYBJFv6P2nv4cj2ypdI204DO+vZ7l5raGMiX4eXMJ53RfOIg+/s4DHVZ54Nu2A==", | |
| "dependencies": { |
| SourceMapper.exe generate --configfile "C:\NuGetProj\NuGet.Client\NuGet.Config" -dr -dp | |
| ================================================ Package Source Map Generator =============================================== | |
| This app creates nugetPackageSourceMapping.config section for Package Source Mapping and you can copy into your nuget.config file, for more info check https://devblogs.microsoft.com/nuget/introducing-package-source-mapping/ | |
| Nuget file successfully loaded: C:\NuGetProj\NuGet.Client\NuGet.Config | |
| Global package folder path: C:\Users\eryondon\Desktop\GlobalNuGet4\ | |
| Detect package sources from package meta data: | |
| Total source count: 7, Unique packages 354, PackageVersion count: 582 | |
| Source : https://dotnetfeed.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet-core/index.json, Unique packages 254, PackageVersion count: 254 |
| >> SourceMapper.exe generate --configfile "C:\NuGetProj\NuGet.Clean\NuGet.Config" -dr | |
| ================================================ Package Source Map Generator =============================================== | |
| This app creates nugetPackageSourceMapping.config section for Package Source Mapping and you can copy into your nuget.config file, for more info check https://devblogs.microsoft.com/nuget/introducing-package-source-mapping/ | |
| Nuget file successfully loaded: C:\NuGetProj\NuGet.Clean\NuGet.Config | |
| Global package folder path: C:\Users\eryondon\Desktop\GlobalNuGet5\ | |
| Detect package sources from package meta data: | |
| Total source count: 7, Unique packages 352, PackageVersion count: 580 | |
| Source : https://dotnetfeed.blob.core.windows.net/dotnet-core/index.json, Unique packages 73, PackageVersion count: 73 |
| <packageSourceMapping> | |
| <clear /> | |
| <packageSource key = "dotnet-core"> | |
| <package pattern="microsoft.*" /> | |
| <package pattern="netstandard.library" /> | |
| <package pattern="newtonsoft.json" /> | |
| <package pattern="runtime.*" /> | |
| <package pattern="system.*" /> | |
| </packageSource> | |
| <packageSource key = "vside_vs-impl"> |