A personal collection of practical, creative, and useful instructions for GitHub Copilot and other AI assistants. This repo is for prompts that solve specific, real-world problems and establish creative workflows. This is a place for the prompts you actually use.
The official way to use these instructions in VS Code is:
- In the root of your project, create a folder called .github.
- Inside that, create a file named copilot-instructions.md.
- Browse the instructions/folder in this repo.
- Find an instruction set you like.
- Copy the entire content from that file and paste it into your project's
.github/copilot-instructions.mdfile.
Now, Copilot will use those rules automatically every time you chat with it inside that project.
For a quick, one-time use, you can just copy the text from an instruction file and paste it at the start of a new chat
We welcome contributions. To add a new instruction set:
- Copy
instructions/base-template.mdand name it appropriately (e.g.,instructions/my-instruction.md). - Fill out the sections: Name, Applies to, Always, Never, Output format.
- Submit a pull request with a clear title and description explaining the new instruction set.
See the full CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.