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Copilot Content Exclusions: Four Layers of Defense
So you’ve set up content exclusion rules for your GitHub Copilot. Sensitive files — billing data, credentials, proprietary algorithms — are blocked from …
Building and Testing Custom Agents
Building custom agents for GitHub Copilot (or any other AI assistant for that matter) sounds fun until you hit the reality of testing them. Let me walk you …
Building Skills: How to Write a Good Agent Skill
Let’s talk about Agent Skills.
My GitHub Copilot-Powered Development Workflow
Throughout 2025, I’ve been experimenting with various ways to organize my development workflow with coding agents, trying to maximize the satisfaction of …
GitHub Copilot Customization: Instructions, Prompts, Agents and Skills
We’re approaching the end of 2025, this has been a year of agents, for sure.
Monitoring GitHub Copilot Adoption with Metrics
Introduction Since GitHub released the Copilot usage metrics dashboard and API in public preview back in October, I’ve been spending a lot of time helping …