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copilot-instructions.md

copilot-instructions.md is a GitHub Copilot custom instructions file placed at .github/copilot-instructions.md in a repository. It provides repository-specific guidance and preferences that GitHub Copilot Chat, Copilot in the IDE, and the Copilot coding agent automatically inject into prompts when working in the repository. The file is plain Markdown in natural language, helping the AI understand build, test, validation, framework, and style conventions so it can produce code that is consistent with the project's expectations and reduce pull request rejections caused by avoidable lint, CI, or convention failures.

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