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Copilot Cheat Sheet

Copilot Cheat Sheet

Custom Instructions Copilot window → Settings (Cog icon, top right) → Generate Instructions
Pause Code Completions Copilot icon (bottom right) → Snooze.

MCP Servers

Extensions → MCP Servers. Get them here.

Settings

Chat > Agent: Max Requests. Make this bigger!
Terminal Command Allow / Deny List: Extensions → GitHub Copilot Chat → Experimental, allow list, deny list.

Custom Chat Modes

Create Agent Mode → Settings (Cog icon) → Modes → Create new custom chat mode file… → .github/chatmodes → [name]
Switch Copilot window → Mode dropdown (bottom left) → [whatever]

Get some standard ones here.

Example Prompts

`@vscode how do I enable MCP?`	Chat participants - Ask VS Code something.
`@github My username is 'stephen-heise_xero'. What PRs do I have open?`	Chat participants - Ask GitHub something.
`#codebase what version of node is being used?`	Include the whole code base into the context.
`/prompt_file`	Run a prompt file (typically in `.github\prompts` or `C:\Users\StephenHeise\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\prompts`)