"When Anthropic introduced Claude Skills, they demonstrated how specialized instruction sets could transform AI assistants into domain experts. But not every developer can use Claude at work. Many companies have IT restrictions or security policies that prevent the use of a large LLM like Anthropic's. Or they may just want to avoid context-switching between a million different AI tools. Count me as one of those devs."
"As someone who uses GitHub Copilot in my daily workflow, I was curious whether I could bring a Skills-like capability to my development environment. With Copilot, it's not as simple as copying prompt templates, but it can still be achieved. With some additional configuration and usage of Copilot's Instructions file, I've been able to achieve a similar workflow in Copilot to what Claude Skills offers."
Claude Skills enable specialized instruction sets that turn AI assistants into domain experts. Many organizations cannot use large external LLMs due to IT restrictions, security policies, or the desire to avoid managing many separate AI tools. GitHub Copilot is commonly standardized within development teams and can be adapted to provide Skills-like specialization. Achieving similar behavior in Copilot requires additional configuration and use of the Copilot Instructions file. Controlling context reduces required context size, speeds responses, and lowers hallucination risk. A sample project demonstrates a practical implementation of this approach on GitHub.
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