A developer-focused VS Code extension for managing, sharing, and syncing AI chat modes, prompt configurations, and agent instructions. Designed for teams building with AI, this extension streamlines prompt engineering workflows and enables consistent, reusable AI behavior across environments.
Install from VS Code Marketplace
Pre-configured AI chat personalities tailored for specific roles:
- Azure Architect: Specialized guidance for Azure cloud architecture and best practices
- Principal Software Engineer: Expert-level software engineering assistance
- Janitor: Clean any codebase by eliminating tech debt
Reusable prompt templates accessible via / in GitHub Copilot Chat:
Azure & Cloud:
/az-cost-optimize- Optimize Azure costs and resources/azure-resource-health-diagnose- Diagnose Azure resource health issues
Development & Architecture:
/boost-prompt- Boost and improve prompt quality/breakdown-feature-implementation- Break down features into tasks/containerize-aspnet-framework- Containerize ASP.NET Framework apps/dotnet-design-pattern-review- Analyze and review .NET design patterns
Documentation:
/create-agentsmd- Create agents.md documentation/create-readme- Generate comprehensive README documentation
Version Control:
/git-flow-branch-creator- Create Git Flow branches
Automatically referenced instructions that enhance your AI interactions:
Programming Languages:
- Angular: Framework best practices and guidelines
- Blazor: Development guidelines and best practices
- C#: Programming language best practices
- Go: Programming language best practices
- Java: Programming language best practices
- Rust: Programming language best practices
Infrastructure & DevOps:
- Ansible: Automation and configuration management
- Azure DevOps Pipelines: CI/CD pipeline best practices
- Docker: Containerization best practices
- Terraform: Infrastructure as code best practices
- Terraform Azure: Azure-specific IaC best practices
Architecture & General:
- .NET Architecture: Design and architecture best practices
- Memory Bank: Context management across chat sessions
- Performance Optimization: Performance-focused guidance
- Open VS Code
- Go to Extensions (Ctrl+Shift+X / Cmd+Shift+X)
- Search for "Effective AI Kit"
- Click Install
- Open GitHub Copilot Chat
- Select a chat mode from the available options:
@azure-architectfor Azure-specific guidance@principal-software-engineerfor software engineering expertise@janitorfor cleaning codebases and eliminating tech debt
Prompts can be accessed directly in GitHub Copilot Chat using the / command:
- Open GitHub Copilot Chat
- Type
/to see all available prompts - Select from 9 available prompts including:
/create-readme- Generate comprehensive README documentation/dotnet-design-pattern-review- Analyze and review .NET design patterns/az-cost-optimize- Optimize Azure costs/breakdown-feature-implementation- Break down features into tasks- And 5 more specialized prompts
Chat instructions are automatically referenced by GitHub Copilot Chat and enhance your AI interactions with persistent context and specialized behaviors across 14 different domains including programming languages, infrastructure, DevOps, and architecture.
No additional configuration needed - these instructions work in the background to improve your AI assistance experience based on your current context.
- Visual Studio Code version 1.105.0 or higher
- GitHub Copilot extension (for chat mode functionality)
This extension contributes the following chat modes, prompts, and instructions that integrate seamlessly with GitHub Copilot Chat.
Please report any issues on the GitHub repository.
Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request on GitHub.
MIT License - See LICENSE file for details.
Have suggestions or found a bug? Please open an issue.
Enjoy building with AI!