Agent Skills Example - GitHub Copilot Visual Studio 2026

Better late than NEVER. One of the newest capabilities introduced in GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio 2026 is Agent Skills — a feature that allows developers to capture repeatable development processes and reuse them automatically. In this article, I’ll explain what Agent Skills are, how they work in Visual Studio 2026, and walk through a practical example where a Skill automatically scaffolds a Clean Architecture .NET solution. Watch Video What Are Agent Skills? When working with AI coding tools, you often repeat the same prompts over and over again. For example: Creating a new solution Adding projects Installing NuGet packages Setting up references Organizing folders You might initially guide the AI through this process step-by-step until it produces the correct result. But repeating the same instructions every time wastes time and tokens. Agent Skills solve this problem. A Skill captures a reusable process and allows the AI agent to execute it automatically. Instead of writing promp