--- title: MigrateToSkills | daily.dev description: A walkthrough of a new VS Code feature that lets you migrate existing prompts to skills with a single click. The process involves enabling a prompt migration... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/migratetoskills-piskn0pgd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MigrateToSkills | daily.dev og:description: A walkthrough of a new VS Code feature that lets you migrate existing prompts to skills with a single click. The process involves enabling a prompt migration... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/migratetoskills-piskn0pgd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/piSKN0PGD.png og:image:alt: MigrateToSkills og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: 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. # MigrateToSkills **[Visual Studio Code](https://daily.dev/sources/vscode)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A walkthrough of a new VS Code feature that lets you migrate existing prompts to skills with a single click. The process involves enabling a prompt migration setting in VS Code settings, then navigating to chat customizations where a 'migrate prompts' section appears. From there, you can browse existing prompts, choose to migrate them to skills (with the option to keep or remove old prompts), and select a save location for the new skills. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I migrate my existing VS Code chat prompts to the new skills format? Enable the prompt migration setting in VS Code by opening settings and searching for 'migrate', then turning on the prompt migration customization option. Open chat customizations, find the new migrate prompts section, and browse existing prompts. Selecting one gives a one-click option to migrate it to a skill, choose whether to keep the old prompt, and pick a save location. _Developers adopting VS Code's new skills workflow can follow AI coding tool updates like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I moved my Claude Code prompts into skills files, and I'm slightly embarrassed by how much better it got](https://daily.dev/posts/i-moved-my-claude-code-prompts-into-skills-files-and-i-m-slightly-embarrassed-by-how-much-better-it-rozkp2ufu) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 1 comments - [Visual Studio Code previews chat customizations editor](https://daily.dev/posts/visual-studio-code-previews-chat-customizations-editor-apzuovvgu) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Supercharge your AI Workflow with Github Copilot Custom Prompt Files](https://daily.dev/posts/supercharge-your-ai-workflow-with-github-copilot-custom-prompt-files-rp2hrh51y) · The Art of Simplicity · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#vscode](https://daily.dev/tags/vscode), [#prompt-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/prompt-engineering) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/migratetoskills-piskn0pgd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"MigrateToSkills","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/migratetoskills-piskn0pgd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/migratetoskills-piskn0pgd"},"datePublished":"2026-07-28T00:24:53.750Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T21:55:56.269Z","description":"A walkthrough of a new VS Code feature that lets you migrate existing prompts to skills with a single click. 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