Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
Provide clear documentation about default behavior of Global instruction md files utilization
Proposed solution
Provide clear documentation about default behavior of Global instruction md files utilization
This will avoid confusion for end users
There is currently some documentation around this (https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/customize-copilot/add-custom-instructions#agent-instructions) although seems to be slightly unclear/inaccurate in comparison to observed behavior of CLI
example (running on Windows os, WSL Ubuntu):
running /env:
however, I only have AGENTS.md in ~/.agents and CLAUDE.md in ~/.claude
additionally for the above, a nice enhancement with respect to release notes of version 1.0.26 - 2026-04-14 "Avoid sending duplicate custom instruction files (e.g. copilot-instructions.md and CLAUDE.md with identical content) to reduce wasted tokens per turn", it would be nice here on the /env to demark as "(duplicate)" label suffix or something equivalent there to alleviate user concerns that these may bloat context/instructions sent and that they are properly being de-duplicated by copilot harness
Example prompts or workflows
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Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
Provide clear documentation about default behavior of Global instruction md files utilization
Proposed solution
Provide clear documentation about default behavior of Global instruction md files utilization
This will avoid confusion for end users
There is currently some documentation around this (https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/customize-copilot/add-custom-instructions#agent-instructions) although seems to be slightly unclear/inaccurate in comparison to observed behavior of CLI
example (running on Windows os, WSL Ubuntu):
running
/env:however, I only have AGENTS.md in ~/.agents and CLAUDE.md in ~/.claude
additionally for the above, a nice enhancement with respect to release notes of version 1.0.26 - 2026-04-14 "Avoid sending duplicate custom instruction files (e.g. copilot-instructions.md and CLAUDE.md with identical content) to reduce wasted tokens per turn", it would be nice here on the
/envto demark as "(duplicate)" label suffix or something equivalent there to alleviate user concerns that these may bloat context/instructions sent and that they are properly being de-duplicated by copilot harnessExample prompts or workflows
No response
Additional context
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