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Add support for all agents in custom instructions in JetBrains section - #45218

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@Eskibear from the Copilot team confirms AGENTS.md support in JetBrains plugin has been implemented.

Closing this as it's already supported.

microsoft/copilot-intellij-feedback#598 (comment)

What's being changed (if available, include any code snippets, screenshots, or gifs):

Showing agent instructions files like AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md as supported on this page.

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  • A subject matter expert (SME) has reviewed the technical accuracy of the content in this PR. In most cases, the author can be the SME. Open source contributions may require an SME review from GitHub staff.
  • The changes in this PR meet the docs fundamentals that are required for all content.
  • All CI checks are passing and the changes look good in the review environment.

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@ChihweiLHBird I will check with the Copilot team and make sure this is something we want documented. In the future, written context that isn't a link to a very long comment thread would be helpful. We do occasionally reject PRs on the "too hard to figure out what's going on here" principle, and asking writers to wade through a long thread of technical comments is a lot.

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@Sharra-writes thanks for the feedback! I updated the PR description with a quote from the Copilot team member.

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Hi this is nick from the product team. Looking at this page, it says "custom instructions", this is a different file than "Agents.md" support in the original issue. I don't know if this is the right page, is there a specific page for Agents.md support?

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ChihweiLHBird commented Aug 6, 2026

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Hi this is nick from the product team. Looking at this page, it says "custom instructions", this is a different file than "Agents.md" support in the original issue. I don't know if this is the right page, is there a specific page for Agents.md support?

Question is, do you only support AGENTS.md or all of AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md and GEMINI.md

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https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/customize-copilot/add-custom-instructions
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/custom-instructions-support

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We support AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, not GEMINI.md. If this is the right page, the correct change should be
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in this part, add "Agent instructions (AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md)"

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@nickzhums If it doesn't support GEMINI.md, then this PR is no longer accurate. It will need a new reusable component for representing AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, and there are only 2 existing components representing "all three" or "only AGENTS.md".
https://github.com/github/docs/tree/738593aef7b8d80183a376d5c692feefc0e8a5ff/data/reusables/copilot

Closing this PR now.

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ChihweiLHBird deleted the patch-1 branch August 6, 2026 03:34
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