Extend GitHub Copilot with ready-to-use extensions or build your own using our developer platform with APIs, documentation, and guides.

After installing the GitHub Copilot extension, to enable GitHub Copilot, ensure you have added your GitHub account to Visual Studio. For more information, see Add your GitHub accounts to your Visual Studio keychain in the Microsoft documentation.

About GitHub Copilot Extensions GitHub Copilot Extensions are a type of GitHub App that integrates the power of external tools into GitHub Copilot Chat. Copilot Extensions can be developed by anyone, for private or public use, and can be …

GitHub Copilot extension for Visual Studio. For instructions on how to install the Copilot extension, see Install GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio in the Microsoft documentation.

To use GitHub Copilot in Azure Data Studio, you must install the GitHub Copilot extension. For more information, see Installing the GitHub Copilot extension in your environment.

GitHub Copilot is available as an extension in Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Vim, Neovim, the JetBrains suite of IDEs, and Azure Data Studio. Although code completion functionality is available across all these extensions, chat functionality is currently available only in Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, and Visual Studio.

GitHub Copilot Extensions can help you streamline workflows, reduce context switching, and boost productivity. Whether it's managing databases, monitoring performance, or interacting with APIs, extensions make Copilot more versatile and powerful for you.

GitHub Copilot Extensions are a type of Copilot Extension built with GitHub Apps. GitHub Copilot Extensions are best suited for developers who want cross-platform compatibility and app management and support from GitHub.

If you have your own subscription to Copilot (instead of using your organization or enterprise's subscription), you can: Install Copilot Extensions to integrate other tools with Copilot Chat. See Extending the capabilities of GitHub Copilot in your personal account. Manage policies. See Managing Copilot policies as an individual subscriber. 7.

The Blackbeard extension is a GitHub Copilot Extension built with a simple agent that responds to requests like a pirate using Copilot's large language model (LLM) API and special system prompts. This guide uses a simple agent implementation, but the process is similar for skillsets.