windows-driver-docs
Copilot instructions1.1k starsChanged 12 months agoCC-BY-4.0View on GitHub
This repository contains the source files for the Windows Driver Kit (WDK) conceptual and guidance documentation. The content is published to learn.microsoft.com/windows-hardware/drivers. Each technology directory typically contains conceptual articles, how-to…
We split this copilot-instructions.md into the rules it gives an agent
20 rules. About 0 are common, 15 are distinctive, and 5 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈15
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
5
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
Licensed with conditions — read it at the source. We count its rules but don't quote them. Read them on GitHub.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 3,669 Copilot instructions files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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Quiet since June.about the whole repository
Who's talking about MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs
- freeCodeCamp/devdocs“Add Microsoft Documentation”GitHub · Feb 19, 2024 · 11 reactions
- @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy“lmao what https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs”Bluesky · Jun 5, 2026 · 7 likes
- @jegtnes.com“it's not the only one; a friend of mine who contributed to Windows driver docs seven years ago got the same …”Bluesky · Jun 5, 2026 · 3 likes
- @dd86k.space“github.com/MicrosoftDoc... and github.com/MicrosoftDoc... should help”Bluesky · Aug 19, 2025 · 2 likes
- Stack Overflow“Device driver does not install on any devices, use primitive driver if this is intended in Visual studio 2019?”Stack Overflow · Oct 4, 2020 · 2 votes
The biggest 5 of 19 mentions linking to the repository that our crawl found. Each line is their own headline.
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Talked about on GitHub, Bluesky and Stack Overflow (19 times).
On GitHub · 14
- Feb 19, 2024Add Microsoft Documentation — freeCodeCamp/devdocs11 reactions · 2 comments
- Apr 10, 2025Remove Windows PDB conversion — dotnet/arcade1 reaction · 3 comments
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- Oct 23, 2020dskheap doesn't work on Server 2016 and later — microsoft/WinDbg-Feedback1 reaction · 1 comment
9 more on GitHub
- Dec 23, 2025Implement KeTryToAcquireGuardedMutex/KeAcquireGuardedMutex/KeReleaseGuardedMutex — ValveSoftware/Proton0 reactions · 5 comments
- Jul 19, 2025[New Script]: Disable Additional Services and Programs (as of 07-18-25) — undergroundwires/privacy.sexy0 reactions
- Sep 18, 2023Signing HLKX Packages — ebourg/jsign0 reactions · 15 comments
- Aug 24, 2023Replace DevCon with PnPUtil for (un)install — forderud/IntelliMouseDriver0 reactions · 6 comments
- Sep 20, 2022add some books about Windows — github/archive-program0 reactions · 1 comment
- Jul 15, 2022Use new API — michidk/displayz0 reactions · 1 comment
- Oct 6, 2021Update `buildSymbolStore.ps1` symstore.exe usage to be in-line with documentation. — nvaccess/nvda0 reactions
- Mar 10, 2020Vertarget does not list build number — microsoft/WinDbg-Feedback0 reactions · 1 comment
- Jul 9, 2019Debugging symbols are bad quality nowadays. — microsoft/WinDbg-Feedback0 reactions · 1 comment
On Bluesky · 4
- Jun 5, 2026lmao what https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs — @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy7 likes and reposts · 2 replies
- Jun 5, 2026it's not the only one; a friend of mine who contributed to Windows driver docs seven years ago got the same notification and lo:… — @jegtnes.com3 likes and reposts · 1 reply
- Aug 19, 2025github.com/MicrosoftDoc... and github.com/MicrosoftDoc... should help — @dd86k.space2 likes and reposts
- Jun 6, 2026https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-driver-docs >This repository has been disabled. >Access to this repository has been disabled by… — @jilotta.mastodon.ml.ap.brid.gy0 likes and reposts · 1 reply
On Stack Overflow · 1
- Oct 4, 2020Device driver does not install on any devices, use primitive driver if this is intended in Visual studio 2019?2 votes · 2 answers
Where files are headingNew Copilot instructions files have more rules about branches and pull requests, and fewer about code style.
Of the Copilot instructions files we read, the 2,297 first seen in the last six months, against the older ones: the kind of rule that gained most share, and the kind that lost most. About files like this in general, not this one, and an estimate, since a kind is a pattern in the words.
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