From 31e3c13ea9ec8e0a47fc9848bc3204312bacd710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Sloan <michael@zed.dev>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:30:37 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add `.github/copilot-instructions.md` to paths loaded for
 rules (#27442)

Release Notes:

- N/A
---
 crates/assistant2/src/thread.rs | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/crates/assistant2/src/thread.rs b/crates/assistant2/src/thread.rs
index 4076b9a435..5803da85bc 100644
--- a/crates/assistant2/src/thread.rs
+++ b/crates/assistant2/src/thread.rs
@@ -698,11 +698,12 @@ impl Thread {
 
         // Note that Cline supports `.clinerules` being a directory, but that is not currently
         // supported. This doesn't seem to occur often in GitHub repositories.
-        const RULES_FILE_NAMES: [&'static str; 5] = [
+        const RULES_FILE_NAMES: [&'static str; 6] = [
             ".rules",
             ".cursorrules",
             ".windsurfrules",
             ".clinerules",
+            ".github/copilot-instructions.md",
             "CLAUDE.md",
         ];
         let selected_rules_file = RULES_FILE_NAMES