Want to give your coding agent new capabilities? Use Agent Skills in VS Code
Visual Studio Code explains how Agent Skills let you package reusable instructions and resources for a coding agent in VS Code, load them on demand, and invoke them from chat via slash commands like /skill-name.
Want to give your coding agent new capabilities? Use Agent Skills in VS Code
Agent Skills let you package instructions and resources into reusable capabilities for your agent.
What Agent Skills are
- A way to bundle:
- Instructions
- Resources
- Into reusable capabilities that your coding agent can use.
How you use them
- Load skills on demand when you need them.
- Call skills directly from chat using slash commands, for example:
/skill-name
Links
- Learn more: https://aka.ms/VSCode/AgentSkills
- Awesome GitHub Copilot: http://aka.ma/AwesomeGC