The copilot-setup-steps.yml workflow won't trigger unless it's present on your default branch

[jancbeck]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/coding-agent/customize-the-agent-environment

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

The copilot-setup-steps.yml workflow won't trigger unless it's present on your main branch.

Additional information

In my case main was actually not the default branch but dev so the coding agent didn't pick it up until I merged copilot-setup-steps.yml into the default branch. Confusing!

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