I want to provide persistent instructions (things to always do and practices to always follow) regardless of the workspace or coding language used. I have asked the agent about this and essentially the response was that VSCode can read the persistent chat instructions (location specified in ~/.config/Code/User/settings.json or other locations suggested), but the AI Agent cannot, and VSCode doesn't pass this info on to the Agent.

Surely there must be way to do this, without having to manually copy or symlink the instructions file for each new workspace?