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Undocumented agent skills location for copilot-cli #43418

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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 ~/.agents folder for storing skills, even if copilot-cli supports storing skills in that location.

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  4. Sharra-writes commented on Mar 19, 2026

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    @jarle Checking in to make sure this works and that there's no reason for us not to document it.

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    A stale label has been added to this issue, because it has been open for 30 days with no activity. If you think this issue should remain open, please add a new comment.

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  15. subatoi commented on Aug 24, 2026

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    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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