| 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.