vscode-agent
Reference system prompt and tool schemas for VSCode Agent. Use when imitating, comparing, or analyzing VSCode Agent's prompting style; designing prompts inspired by VSCode Agent; or answering question
SKILL.mdskills/vscode-agent/SKILL.md
GitHubVSCode Agent
GitHub Copilot Chat / VSCode Agent system prompts across multiple models (GPT-4o/4.1/5/5-mini, Claude Sonnet 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro).
When activated, read the bundled source files below to ground your response in the actual published prompt text. Do not paraphrase from memory — the canonical content lives in these files.
Source files
sources/Prompt.txt(21,032 bytes)sources/chat-titles.txt(765 bytes)sources/claude-sonnet-4.txt(9,910 bytes)sources/gemini-2.5-pro.txt(9,909 bytes)sources/gpt-4.1.txt(11,082 bytes)sources/gpt-4o.txt(7,876 bytes)sources/gpt-5-mini.txt(25,257 bytes)sources/gpt-5.txt(25,579 bytes)sources/nes-tab-completion.txt(8,910 bytes)
Usage
- Quote or summarise from the files above when answering "how does VSCode Agent prompt its agent?" style questions.
- When emulating VSCode Agent's style, mirror its structure (sections, tool-use rules, refusal patterns) rather than copying verbatim.
- These prompts were collected by the upstream
x1xhlol/system-prompts-and-models-of-ai-toolsrepo and may drift from the live product over time.