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GitHub Copilot Workspace

A Copilot-native dev environment, designed for everyday tasks.
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About The Project

Whether you’re addressing an Issue, iterating on a PR, or bootstrapping a project, Copilot Workspace helps you jumpstart every task by describing what you want in natural language. It captures your intent, proposes a plan of action, and uses that plan to implement the changes.

Every step of the Workspace is designed to be edited, regenerated, or undone, which makes it easy to iterate towards the exact solution you want. You can even try different solutions in multiple tabs, and save them for later.

When you’re ready to get feedback, you can instantly share a workspace with your team, and they can try out their own iterations. Copilot Workspace automatically versions the context and history of your changes, and can create a PR in a single-click.

VS Code Extension Features

Use GitHub Copilot Workspace from the comfort of VS Code. Continue an existing session and edit and debug the proposed changes before creating a PR. Whether you use natural language to revise the plan or implementation, or opt to edit files directly, changes are synced to GitHub Copilot Workspace on the web. This enables you to use GitHub Copilot Workspace with other GitHub Copilot features and tap into the the full power of VS Code and its extension ecosystem.

We will be rolling out enhancements to the extension in multiple phases.

1. Continue on: Browse your Copilot Workspace sessions and sync changes so you can edit and debug your application in VS Code locally, using one of the other VS Code Remote extensions, or in your own Codespace.

2. [IN-PROGRESS] Update your workspace using AI:

   • Available: Brainstorming, natural language revisions to the plan and files in the plan, adding/editing/deleting plan files or steps.
   • Planned: Support for editing the task and answer text, integration into chat.

3. [FUTURE] Create new: While not available now, you'll be able to create a new Copilot Workspace session in VS Code.

Getting Started

1. Request access to the GitHub Copilot Workspace technical preview.

2. Once you're accepted, open or create a session on the web that you'd like to continue working on in VS Code.

3. Click on the VS Code button in the session screen.

   

4. Allow your browser to open the link in VS Code when prompted.

5. When VS Code opens, approve opening the URI and let VS Code install the extension (if needed).

6. Follow the directions that appear and make any selections when prompted. You'll be guided towards syncing the session to your local machine.

7. Once you have a session that is syncing, any local edits you make will be automatically uploaded to the web as you go - no need to commit or push.

In addition to editing and debugging, you can also make revisions using natural language or adjust the plan and implementation. When you're done, you can either:

• Create / update a branch and optionally create a PR by clicking on the Push Changes into Branch... icon in the Plan view using the command palette (F1 or Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+P).
• Or hop back on the web to push updates to the original branch or create a PR from your session. There's a quick access link in the ... menu on top of the Plan and Task views.

See the GitHub Copilot Workspace user manual for more details and other ways to get started.

Feedback

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License

By downloading and using the 'GitHub Copilot Workspace' extension and its related components, you agree to our license terms.