Customize Copilot cloud agent

Bring your personal instructions, skills, and custom agents to your sessions with Copilot in the cloud using a dotfiles repository.

You can create specialized agents with tailored expertise for specific development tasks.

You can modify Copilot's behavior and abilities when it works on particular tasks.

Run automated checks—like linting, formatting, or security scans—at key points during agent execution to enforce quality standards.

Pre-install tools and dependencies so Copilot cloud agent can build, test, and validate changes reliably.

Run Copilot sessions with your own tools and dependencies on a Linux machine or codespace.

Securely pass secrets and variables to Copilot cloud agent so it can access private resources and configure MCP servers.

Ensure your custom agents are performant and compliant before releasing them to your company.