Markdown is emerging in VS Code and Visual Studio 2026 as a version-controlled instruction layer that governs AI agents, reusable prompts and modular skills alongside traditional documentation.

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While the plugin comes with built-in support for a minimal set of common directives, it can be extended by third-party packages. The built-in supported directives are: ...