From 9e57dc7dbeeb4a142ff3b9882d4dd672ca73fc40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: westey <164392973+westey-m@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:23:22 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update instructions to require automatically building and
 formatting (#3412)

---
 .github/copilot-instructions.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/copilot-instructions.md b/.github/copilot-instructions.md
index 352d0b22f7..5866f1f895 100644
--- a/.github/copilot-instructions.md
+++ b/.github/copilot-instructions.md
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Here are some general guidelines that apply to all code.
 
 - The top of all *.cs files should have a copyright notice: `// Copyright (c) Microsoft. All rights reserved.`
 - All public methods and classes should have XML documentation comments.
+- After adding, modifying or deleting code, run `dotnet build`, and then fix any reported build errors.
+- After adding or modifying code, run `dotnet format` to automatically fix any formatting errors.
 
 ### C# Sample Code Guidelines