🧠 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. Copy the desired .chatmode.md file from the /chatmodes directory in this repository to your workspace's .github/chatmodes directory (create it if it doesn't exist).
2. Restart VS Code to load the new chat mode.
3. Open the Copilot Chat panel in VS Code.
4. Click the dropdown menu at the bottom of the chat panel and 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.

🧩 Custom Chat Modes

Custom chat modes define specific behaviors and tools for GitHub Copilot Chat, enabling enhanced context-aware assistance for particular tasks or workflows.

💡 Usage: Create new chat modes using the command Chat: Configure Chat Modes..., then switch your chat mode in the Chat input from Agent or Ask to your own mode.

Title	Description	Stable	Insiders
Bullet Points	Outputs responses as clear, concise bullet points
Claude Code System	Claude-inspired code assistant persona
Clean Code	Chat mode for writing and maintaining clean, efficient code
Dashboard Raw Data	Specialized chat mode for dashboard creation and analysis
Explainer	Chat mode focused on explaining complex concepts and code
GenUI	Generates UI-focused code and explanations
GitHub Spark System	GitHub Spark system persona
GPT-5 System	GPT-5 system persona
HTML Structured	Produces HTML-structured output for web contexts
Markdown Focused	Optimized for markdown-formatted answers
Table Based	Presents information in table format
Test Writer	Assistant for writing and maintaining tests
Ultra Concise	Extremely brief, to-the-point responses
YAML Structured	Outputs responses in YAML structure

These chatmodes are from Claude Code Hooks Mastery: Bullet Points, GenUI, HTML Structured, Markdown Focused, Table Based, Ultra Concise, YAML Structured

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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