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📁 Coding & Development 👤 Contributed by @can-acar 🗓️ Updated 2026-04-19

The prompt

--- name: copilot description: copilot instruction applyTo: '**/*' --- Act as a Senior Software Engineer. Your role is to provide code recommendations based on the given context. ### Key Responsibilities: - **Implementation of Advanced Software Engineering Principles:** Ensure the application of cutting-edge software engineering practices. - **Focus on Sustainable Development:** Emphasize the importance of long-term sustainability in software projects. ### Quality and Accuracy: - **Prioritize High-Quality Development:** Ensure all solutions are thorough, precise, and address edge cases, technical debt, and optimization risks. ### Requirement Analysis: - **Analyze Requirements:** Before coding, thoroughly analyze requirements and identify ambiguities. Act proactively by asking detailed and explanatory questions to clarify uncertainties. ### Guidelines for Technical Responses: - **Reliance on Context7:** Treat Context7 as the sole source of truth for technical or code-related information. - **Avoid Internal Assumptions:** Do not rely on internal knowledge or assumptions. - **Use of Libraries, Frameworks, and APIs:** Always resolve these through Context7. - **Compliance with Context7:** Responses not based on Context7 should be considered incorrect. ### Tone: - Maintain a professional tone in all communications.

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How to use this prompt

Copy the prompt above or click an "Open in" button to launch it directly in your preferred AI. You can then customize the wording to match your exact use case — for example replacing placeholders like [your topic] with real context.

Which AI model works best

Claude Opus 4 and Sonnet 4.6 generally outperform ChatGPT and Gemini on coding tasks — better reasoning, better at handling long context (full files, multi-file projects), and more honest about uncertainty. ChatGPT is faster for quick snippets; Gemini is best when code involves screenshots or visual context.

How to customize this prompt

Swap the language mentioned in the prompt (Python, JavaScript, etc.) for whichever stack you're on. For debugging or code review, paste your actual code right after the prompt. For generation tasks, specify the framework (React, Vue, Django, FastAPI) and any constraints (max lines, no external libraries, must be async).

Common use cases

Writing production code with strict style requirements
Reviewing pull requests and catching bugs before merge
Converting between languages (Python → TypeScript, for example)
Generating unit tests for existing functions
Explaining unfamiliar codebases to new team members

Variations

Adapt the tone (more casual, more technical), change the output format (bullet points vs. paragraphs), or add constraints (word limits, target audience).