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GitHub Copilot repository instructions

GitHub Copilot's documented convention for persistent repository-wide and path-specific instructions.

Status

Vendor-specific

Version

Rolling / unversioned

Steward

GitHub

Licenses

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0

Standardizes

Discovery of .github/copilot-instructions.md and recursive .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md files, per-surface support for applyTo glob front matter, GitHub.com excludeAgent controls, and documented instruction combination behavior inside Copilot.

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