Re:New AI Coding Teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions
by criley2 on Thursday August 07, 2025 @09:59AM
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I have a well documented copilot-instructions.md (and have used githubs new agentic self-documentation prompt) and the reality is that it takes about 15-20 minutes to build and start multiple react, reactnative and expressjs projects.
Github now appears to support defining setup tasks in a Github Action that runs prior to the agent, so that's the next avenue of research.
Regardless, the website agent will always be slower. My local is already running and fully ready to go so the ide agent can hit the ground running on any task. The website agent has to spin up a machine and install and build. It will take time.
Re:New AI Coding Teammate: Gemini CLI GitHub Actions
by timrogers on Thursday August 07, 2025 @11:45AM
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Tim from the GitHub Copilot coding agent product team here!
@artdigital is on the money here. Our quick tip for beginners is to use `copilot-instructions.md` (which we can now generate for you <3), but for more serious use, we'd strongly recommend adding `copilot-setup-steps.yml`.
That gets you a deterministic setup - and for many teams, it'll be easy, as you can just copy and paste from existing Actions workflows.
Yeah that's on you. Add a `copilot-instructions.md` file and configure the `copilot-setup-steps.yml` workflow to setup your environment. Both are supported more or less since Copilot Agent got released (though in "preview")
Most agents read `AGENTS.md`, I just symlink it to CLAUDE.md, and do the same for GEMINI.md