| title | About agent skills | ||
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| shortTitle | Agent skills | ||
| intro | Skills allow {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} to perform specialized tasks. | ||
| product | {% data reusables.gated-features.copilot-coding-agent %}<br><br>{% data reusables.gated-features.copilot-cli %}<br><a href="https://github.com/features/copilot/plans?ref_product=copilot&ref_type=purchase&ref_style=button" target="_blank" class="btn btn-primary mt-3 mr-3 no-underline"><span>Sign up for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %}</span> {% octicon "link-external" height:16 %}</a> | ||
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Note
Agent Skills work with {% data variables.copilot.copilot_coding_agent %}, the {% data variables.copilot.copilot_cli %} and agent mode in {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode %} Insiders. Support in the stable version of {% data variables.product.prodname_vscode_shortname %} is coming soon.
Agent skills are folders of instructions, scripts, and resources that {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} can load when relevant to improve its performance in specialized tasks. The Agent Skills specification is an open standard, used by a range of different AI systems.
You can create your own skills to teach {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} to perform tasks in a specific, repeatable way—or use skills shared online, for example in the anthropics/skills repository or {% data variables.product.company_short %}'s community created github/awesome-copilot collection.
{% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} supports:
- Project skills, stored in your repository (
.github/skills/,.agents/skills/or.claude/skills/) - Personal skills, stored in your home directory and shared across projects (
~/.copilot/skills/or~/.claude/skills/) ({% data variables.copilot.copilot_coding_agent %} and {% data variables.copilot.copilot_cli %} only)
Support for organization-level and enterprise-level skills is coming soon.
To create an agent skill, see: