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Copilot cli not reading instructions from $HOME/.copilot/copilot-instructions.md #1701

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@caveman96

Describe the bug

/instructions only lists repo and cwd as sources. The documentation says Home folder is a valid location for instructions.

Repository (2/2)
❯ [✓] .github/copilot-instructions.md (.github/copilot-instructions.md)
[✓] .github/instructions (.github/instructions)

Working Directory (2/2)
[✓] Child instruction files (child instruction files)
[✓] .github/copilot-instructions.md (Product\Backend\native.github\copilot-instructions.md)

Affected version

GitHub Copilot CLI 0.0.412-0

Steps to reproduce the behavior

modify $HOME/.copilot/copilot-instructions.md
ask for new instructions, it does not list.

Alternatively run /instructions

Expected behavior

should respect $HOME/.copilot/copilot-instructions.md in addition to repo and cwd

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