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Teaching GitHub Copilot About Your Codebase: What Custom Instructions, Skills, and MCP Servers Reveal About Agent Context Management

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GitHub's official guidance on teaching Copilot about your codebase reveals three distinct context management strategies: custom instructions, repository-specific skills, and MCP server connections. Each operates at a different layer of the agent stack, with different injection points, execution bou…

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  1. 2026-10-20 10:06 · DEV Community — AI
    Teaching GitHub Copilot About Your Codebase: What Custom Instructions, Skills, and MCP Servers Reveal About Agent Context Management

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