To generate a code suggestion, the GitHub Copilot extension begins by examining the code in your editor—focusing on the lines just before and after your cursor, but also information including other files open in your editor and the URLs of repositories or file paths to identify relevant context.

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GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps you write code faster and with less effort, allowing you to focus more energy on problem solving and collaboration. Before you start working with Copilot, it's important to understand when you should and shouldn't use it.

You can use Copilot to get answers to coding-related questions, such as how best to code something, how to fix a bug, or how someone else's code works. For full details of what Copilot can do, see What is GitHub Copilot?.

You can use GitHub Copilot to get autocomplete-style suggestions from an AI pair programmer as you code.

GitHub Copilot features Code completion. Autocomplete-style suggestions from Copilot in supported IDEs (Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Azure Data Studio, Xcode, Vim/Neovim, and Eclipse). For more information, see Getting code …

Get Copilot code completion suggestions in an IDE - See Getting code suggestions in your IDE with GitHub Copilot. Learn how to write effective prompts - See Prompt engineering for Copilot Chat. Use Copilot on your mobile device - See Asking GitHub Copilot questions in GitHub Mobile.

GitHub Copilot is an AI coding assistant that helps you write code faster and with less effort, allowing you to focus more energy on problem solving and collaboration. GitHub Copilot has been proven to increase developer productivity and accelerate the pace of software development.

Copilot can help you to split up complex blocks of code into smaller units that are more suitable for reuse. The following Python code is a very simple example, but it shows the principle of splitting up a single function into two functions that perform particular operations.

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.