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Created December 2, 2025 22:18
Prompt Files vs Custom Instructions vs Custom Agents
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title We need practical AI workflows
date 2025-11-17 08:40:00 +0000
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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.