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Public story · 2026-02-17 · source-backed
GitHub Copilot Agent Skills in .github/skills/ are now an open standard working across Copilot VS Code, CLI, and Coding Agent. Skills use three-stage progressive disclosure (Discovery -> Instructions -> Resources) to scale to hundreds without context window exhaustion. The Coding Agent automatically references skills during Issue-to-PR execution, enabling autonomous PR creation following your team's procedures. Write a SKILL.md with YAML frontmatter and procedural markdown — the agent loads it on-demand when a topic matches. Cross-tool compatible with ~/.agents/skills/ for personal skills.
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Skills supports Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Skills supports Claude Code); both cover CLI, SKILL, Skills, Write; overlapping topics (agent, code, skill).
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Skills supports Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Skills supports Claude Code); both cover Skill, Skills; overlapping topics (agent, code, coding, skill).
Skills supports Codex / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Skills supports Codex); both cover Skill, Skills; overlapping topics (agent, code, copilot, skill).
Skills supports Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Skills supports Claude Code); both cover CLI, Write; overlapping topics (agent, code, copilot, skill).
Skills supports Codex / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Skills supports Codex); both cover SKILL, Skills; overlapping topics (agent, code, context, skill).
Skills supports Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next
Linked by a graph relationship (Skills supports Claude Code); both cover Cross, Write; overlapping topics (agent, code, copilot, cross-tool).
Skills supports Claude Code / Shared entities / Shared topic / What happened next / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Skills supports Claude Code); both cover CLI, YAML; overlapping topics (agent, code).