--- title: "GitHub Copilot's starts supporting AGENTS.md: A step toward unified AI Instructions" url: https://daily.dev/posts/github-copilot-s-starts-supporting-agents-md-a-step-toward-unified-ai-instructions-p9rtskwuw source_url: https://bartwullems.blogspot.com/2025/10/github-copilots-starts-supporting.html type: article source: "The Art of Simplicity" published: 2025-10-13T05:31:32.050Z updated: 2025-10-13T05:31:52.053Z tags: ["ai", "devtools", "github"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 27 comments: 1 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub Copilot's starts supporting AGENTS.md: A step toward unified AI Instructions **[The Art of Simplicity](https://daily.dev/sources/bartwullems)** · 2 min read · 27 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary GitHub Copilot now supports AGENTS.md, a unified format for configuring AI coding assistants. This addresses the fragmentation problem where different AI tools required separate configuration files like .cursorrules, CLAUDE.md, and .github/copilot-instructions.md. The implementation allows both root-level and nested AGENTS.md files for project-wide and context-specific instructions, while maintaining backward compatibility with existing formats. This move positions AGENTS.md as a potential standard for AI agent configuration across tools. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@arieltecay** · 0 upvotes > Well… it was time ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Copilot coding agent supports organization custom instructions](https://daily.dev/posts/copilot-coding-agent-supports-organization-custom-instructions-ct1sp6fon) · GitHub Changelog · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/github-copilot-s-starts-supporting-agents-md-a-step-toward-unified-ai-instructions-p9rtskwuw)