GitHub Copilot in real delivery — agent mode, conventions, and productivity.
Learn what a GitHub Copilot security agent can find in a legacy system, what it can miss, and why scanners and people must still approve changes.
A repeatable method for legacy discovery: turning the business rules, workflows and history a codebase never documented into knowledge Copilot uses.
A handbook for GitHub Copilot Agents on legacy code: what is a real feature, what is a pattern, and how to build an AI development team around it.
Tokens are not words, and they are not characters. Here is what a token really is, why AI billing counts them, and how to work out the cost of a request.
Fifteen tested habits that cut my monthly AI token usage without cutting how much I use AI, from context discipline to knowing when to restart a chat.
A 400K monthly AI token budget sounds generous until agent mode eats it in a week. Here is the daily Copilot workflow I use to make it last the month.
A beginner GitHub Copilot Hooks tutorial: what a hook is, why an AI agent needs deterministic guardrails, and how to write your first one in ten minutes.
The GitHub Copilot PR summary: why an auto-generated description that restates the diff is noise, and how to get one reviewers actually read.
A software architect on GitHub Copilot code review — build a Skill that automates the mechanical layer, and the limits that keep a human in the loop.
Build one GitHub Copilot Skill (SKILL.md) that guards your Azure Bicep — Managed Identity, private networking and cost tiers Copilot will not violate.
Build one GitHub Copilot Skill (SKILL.md) so Copilot writes Flutter the way your app does — layered folders, BLoC state, Firebase behind a repository.
A build-along for .NET developers — create one GitHub Copilot Skill (SKILL.md) that enforces Clean Architecture, CQRS and your API contract.
GitHub Copilot Skills explained by an architect — what they are, how they differ from prompts and instructions, and how to build reusable Skills for teams.
What belongs in an AGENTS.md file — architecture, security, testing, AI rules — plus what to leave out, common mistakes and a reusable template.
AI agents write more code each month than teams can review by hand. AGENTS.md is the one file that keeps it consistent — solo, team or enterprise.
GitHub Copilot custom instructions explained with a real Flutter app you can clone: what the file is, why every project needs one, and beginner mistakes.
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