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Undocumented agent skills location for copilot-cli #43418
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on Mar 19, 2026 @jarle Checking in to make sure this works and that there's no reason for us not to document it.
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on Aug 24, 2026 As I noted in #43419 (comment), this has now been documented. Apologies again for the late conclusion to this issue, and thank you very much for your interest in the GitHub docs 🙇
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What article on docs.github.com is affected?
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/about-agent-skills
What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?
About agent skills does not document the
~/.agentsfolder for storing skills, even ifcopilot-clisupports storing skills in that location.Additional information
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