Enhance auto-injected copilot instructions to have more relevant instructions for scope
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Description
### Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve
The applyTo glob pattern is not enough to scope down an instruction in large codebases with possibly hundreds of agent docs to read
### Proposed solution
Support domain/category "tags" as an addition to applyTo glob patterns in .instructions.md frontmatter, so instructions can be auto-injected based on a semantic tag assigned to files, in combination with or independently of path-based glob matching. For example, a repo currently maintaining a separate, hand-curated library of convention docs (because many conventions are cross-cutting and don't map to a clean glob) could instead express every one of those conventions as a plain .instructions.md file tagged by concern (e.g. error-handling , security ) — removing the need for a parallel documentation system just to work around glob's path-only scoping.
### Example prompts or workflows
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### Additional context
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading the .instructions.md frontmatter handling and the existing applyTo glob-matching behavior. Trace where files are assigned scope and where instructions are auto-injected; done should include semantic tags working independently of or alongside path matching, with coverage for the proposed error-handling and security examples.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- markdown
- Domain
- cli, documentation
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100