Backed by the leaders in AI, GitHub Copilot provides contextualized assistance throughout the software development lifecycle, from code completions and chat assistance in the IDE to code explanations and answers to docs in GitHub and more.

Use Copilot Chat in your editor to give you code suggestions, explain code, generate unit tests, and suggest code fixes. You can use GitHub Copilot Chat in GitHub to answer general questions about software development, or specific questions about the issues or code in a repository.

Use this cheat sheet to quickly reference the most common commands and options for using GitHub Copilot Chat.

Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code; Immersive mode in Copilot Chat in GitHub; o3 is hosted by OpenAI and GitHub's Azure tenant when used in GitHub Copilot. OpenAI makes the following data commitment: We [OpenAI] do not train our models on your business data by default. GitHub maintains a zero data retention agreement with OpenAI.

GitHub Copilot adapts to your unique needs allowing you to select the best model for your project, customize chat responses with custom instructions, and utilize agent mode for AI-powered, seamlessly integrated peer programming sessions.

Dec 18, 2024 · Elevate your coding skills with our redesigned Copilot Chat, now featuring a dedicated home on GitHub. Immersive chat experience at github.com/copilot: Copilot is now just one click away, offering a seamless and immersive chat directly on GitHub.

Apr 9, 2025 · Issues, discussions, and pull requests – these are all important pieces of context when building in GitHub. Now, you can reference these within Copilot Chat. Simply paste a link into the chat and Copilot will do the rest! How it helps you Multi-repository support: want to compare a pull request from one project with a discussion from another ...

Dec 29, 2023 · GitHub Copilot Chat is now available to all GitHub Copilot individual users. Enterprise and organization administrators can grant their development teams access to Copilot Chat by enabling the Copilot Chat setting for their users.

Feb 26, 2025 · You can use GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio to get coding information and support, such as syntax, programming concepts, context-specific code help, test cases, debugging, and more, without leaving the IDE.

Copilot Chat lets you interact with GitHub Copilot by using natural language, to ask and receive answers to coding-related questions. In this tutorial, you'll be creating a simple Node.js web application. Open a new VS Code window. You'll be creating a new workspace in a …

Copilot Chat can identify and resolve syntax errors or structural issues in JSON data. Copilot Chat can help handle API rate limits by suggesting code that detects implements retry logic. Copilot Chat can help explore different approaches for implementing a single feature.

Feb 10, 2025 · This article explains how GitHub Copilot extension processes user prompts—including the steps from local VS Code indexing to sending/receiving data from the Copilot proxy and ultimately interacting with OpenAI-based models.

GitHub Copilot Extensions are integrations that expand the capabilities of Copilot, allowing developers to interact with external tools and services directly within Copilot Chat in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, GitHub.com, and GitHub Mobile.

Understand how to interact with GitHub Copilot through natural language conversations to generate complex code, debug issues, and obtain code explanations in real-time. Understand how to improve the relevance of GitHub Copilot Chat's suggestions by using scope referencing, slash commands, and agents

Copilot Chat can infer relevant chat participants based on your natural language prompt, improving discovery of advanced capabilities without you having to explicitly specify the participant you want to use in your prompt. Automatic inference for chat participants is currently in public preview and is subject to change.

Sep 26, 2024 · When you’re out and about, you can chat with Copilot in GitHub Mobile about your private repositories to quickly catch up on updates to code, issues, pull requests, and more.

Mar 24, 2025 · In this article, you'll learn about using Copilot Chat in Visual Studio, a fully integrated AI-powered chat experience from GitHub Copilot right within the Visual Studio IDE.

Interact with GitHub Copilot through AI-powered chat conversations in VS Code to generate code, increase your code understanding, and even configure your editor.

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You can specify a chat participant by typing @ in the chat prompt box, followed by a chat participant name. To see all available chat participants, type @ in the chat prompt box. Below is a list of some of the most common chat participants for using {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_chat_short %}.

Nov 6, 2024 · GitHub Copilot now offers a more conversational and interactive way to assist you with your coding challenges. Experience smoother, more productive interactions today.

Learn how to use GitHub Copilot Chat responsibly by understanding its purposes, capabilities, and limitations. Who can use this feature? All users with a Copilot Pro, Copilot Pro+, or Copilot Free plan can access Copilot Chat in supported IDEs and on the GitHub website.