🧠 Awesome Copilot Chat Modes

A curated collection of custom chatMode.md files for VS Code — supercharge your workflows with specialized AI personas.

Works with Copilot Chat in VS Code (Insiders).

Why Awesome Copilot Chat Modes?

Copilot Chat Modes are a powerful way to customize the behavior of Copilot Chat in VS Code. By creating a chatMode.md file, you can define a specific persona or role for Copilot Chat to adopt, tailoring the AI’s responses and capabilities to your needs.

• Discover easy, ready-to-use chat modes that enhance your coding experience, improve productivity, and help you tackle specific tasks more effectively.
• Learn how to create your own custom chat modes to suit your unique workflows and preferences.
• Contribute to the community by sharing your own chat modes and benefiting from the collective knowledge of other prompt engineers.

Official Documentation

• Chat mode file example

Getting Started

To use any of these custom chat modes:

1. Create a .github/chatmodes directory in your VS Code workspace
2. Copy the desired .chatmode.md file from this repository to that directory
3. Restart VS Code to load the new chat mode
4. Open the Copilot Chat panel in VS Code
5. Start chatting with Copilot Chat in the context of your selected mode
6. Click the dropdown menu at the bottom of the chat panel
7. Select your custom chat mode from the list

The chat mode will now be active, and Copilot Chat will respond according to the persona and instructions defined in the chosen .chatmode.md file.

Featured Chat Modes

Code Quality

• Clean Code - Chat mode for writing and maintaining clean, efficient code

Dashboards

• Dashboard Raw Data - Specialized chat mode for dashboard creation and analysis

Explainers

• Explainer - Chat mode focused on explaining complex concepts and code

Prompts

• Prompt Designer - Assistant for creating and refining AI prompts

Security

• Security Scout - Chat mode focused on identifying and addressing security concerns

Testing

• Test Writer - Assistant for writing and maintaining tests

Scripting

• PowerShell - Chat mode for PowerShell scripting, automation, and debugging

Contributing to Open Source

Contributions are welcome! If you have a custom chat mode you'd like to share, please submit a pull request.

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