Skills: packaged workflows the agent invokes itself
Custom instructions teach Copilot who you are. Skills teach it how you work. A SKILL.md file with trigger phrases gets pulled into the chat the moment you mention the trigger.
Author: Phil Seamark
Teach Copilot your world with custom instructions
A single instructions file that loads into every chat. Org chart, customers, conventions, preferences. Turns a generic assistant into one that knows your world. The single biggest unlock I have found.
Chain AI models from different vendors to catch blind spots
Don’t run AI models in parallel. Chain them in series, across vendors. The output of one becomes the input to a critique from another. Different training data means different blind spots.
Don’t run everything in one chat session
Running multiple topic-based chat sessions in parallel beats one monolithic chat. Tighter focus, faster context, easier to review weeks later.