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Confusing docs around tools specification for .prompt.md files (custom commands)
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Description
The VS Code docs I found refer to tool sets, and to tools and different sort of notation for it like #edit vs edit/edit_file or similar which is oddly confusing.
This is how I ended up configuring the custom command:
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