Overview of instructions, prompts, and modes

Harald joins James to talk through customizing chat, agents, and GitHub Copilot with custom instructions, prompts, and modes. We go deeper int new proposed APIs that pulls them together to create agents and how Harald implement agent memory and shipped it as an extension!

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• Customize chat and agents
• Custom Instructions
• Prompt Files
• Chat Agent Modes
• Agent memory extension
• VS Code v1.105