Developer Productivity
AGENTS.md and SKILL.md: building a reusable agent toolbox
2026-04-08
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19 min
Context engineering gets more useful when the knowledge it depends on is packaged for reuse. In this post I map the portable core (AGENTS.md and SKILL.md), Copilot-specific concepts like custom instructions, agents and prompt files, and how to decide what knowledge belongs where.
