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photios | 1 month ago

Copilot's agent mode is a disaster. Use better tools: try Claude Code or OpenCode (my favorite).

It's a new ecosystem with its own (atrocious!) jargon that you need to learn. The good news is that it's not hard to do so. It's not as complex or revolutionary as everyone makes it look like. Everything boils down to techniques and frameworks of collecting context/prompt before handing it over to the model.

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darkwater|1 month ago

Yep, basically this. In the end it helps having the mental model that (almost) everything related to agents is just a way to send the upstream LLM a better and more specific context for the task you need to solve at that specific time. i.e Claude Code "skills" are simply a markdown file in a subdirectory with a specific name that translates to a `/SKILL_NAME` command in Claude and a prompt that is injected each time that skill is mentioned or Claude thinks it needs to use, so it doesn't forget the specific way you want to handle that specific task.

theshrike79|1 month ago

Skills can (and IMO should) also contain scripts custom made for that skill.

Like a code review skill would have scripts that read the actual code.

alkonaut|1 month ago

Sadly we have some partnership meaning it's Copilot or nothing.

ryanhecht|1 month ago

Give Copilot CLI a try if you haven't in a while! The team's been working really hard to improve the harness, and we're taking as much community feedback as we can get! Let me know if you run into any problems :)

https://github.com/github/copilot-cli

photios|1 month ago

I feel your pain. I used to work for a bank and the security team only approved Copilot use.

OpenCode can use Copilot natively: https://opencode.ai/docs/providers/#github-copilot

I got Claude Code running with Copilot APIs via the LiteLLM proxy, but it was a pain in the butt. Just use OpenCode.

JeremyNT|1 month ago

If you can use the Copilot CLI, it's highly likely you can use OpenCode with the same API key. It's worth doing a little research.

The CLI tool matters. If you're not using opencode/claude you're missing out. But the latest OpenAI models are really quite good.