Customize Deep Search with your guidance and skills

Deep Search can now follow your organization’s conventions on every run. Add durable AGENTS.md-style guidance for standards and preferences, plus task-specific skills that help the agent handle specialized workflows with the right instructions.

Configure customization globally, for an organization, or in your personal settings. Guidance and skills can be entered directly or loaded from an explicitly configured Sourcegraph repository location, with an optional path and branch or revision. Repository sources can contain AGENTS.md and skills at skills/<name>/SKILL.md or .agents/skills/<name>/SKILL.md; they are not automatically discovered from every repository involved in a search.

Guidance is included in agent runs, while skills are advertised by name and description and loaded only when relevant, preserving context for the task. Settings are applied from global to organization to personal scope, and later skills override earlier skills with the same name, case-insensitively.

Agentic Batch Changes supports the same customization model for its coordinating agent. Guidance and skills do not flow into delegated coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex.