The path of user-level instructions mentioned in the /help command and documentation is incomplete

[imkuang]

Describe the bug

The INSTRUCTIONS path listed by the /help command is as follows:

INSTRUCTIONS READ FROM:

  CLAUDE.md
  GEMINI.md
  AGENTS.md                                    in git root & cwd
  .github/instructions/**/*.instructions.md    in git root & cwd
  .github/copilot-instructions.md
  $HOME/.copilot/copilot-instructions.md
  COPILOT_CUSTOM_INSTRUCTIONS_DIRS             additional directories via env var

The path $HOME/.copilot/instructions/*.instructions.md was omitted. The changelog for version 0.0.412 explicitly mentions: "Support ~/.copilot/instructions/*.instructions.md files for user-level instructions across all repositories," and my testing confirms it is indeed effective: https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/blob/main/changelog.md#00412---2026-02-19

PS: Since VSCode does not support loading $HOME/.copilot/copilot-instructions.md, I created a $HOME/.copilot/instructions/global.instructions.md file with applyTo: '**' and all other content identical. As a result, I now see that $HOME/.copilot/instructions/ is also being loaded in the Copilot CLI. Could this cause the same content to be loaded twice, resulting in wasted context?

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