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Instructionalist Copilot Instructions

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instructionalist-copilot-instructions.prompt

# The Instructionalist Agent - Sample Copilot Instructions Output 🧾

There’s a big difference between reading about a workflow and seeing the actual file it produces. This is one of those “show, don’t tell” moments — a full `.github/copilot-instructions.md` generated by The Instructionalist, so you can see how it stitches sections together, lays out constraints, and keeps everything ready for reuse.

At the time this was generated, The Instructionalist was in its tweak stage — so you’re looking at a real-world run, imperfections and all. That makes it a solid reference for what you might get on your first passes, before you start refining things for production.

> 🎥 Aside: I recorded a [YouTube demo](https://youtu.be/JkEsZFrHf1U) while generating this, focused on loading a agent in VS Code — you’ll spot this file at the end of the video.

## Example Output

when to use it

Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo anchildress1/awesome-github-copilot (MIT). A "Instructionalist Copilot Instructions" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.