GitHub Copilot

14 posts

Learn how to write effective prompts and troubleshoot results in this installment of our GitHub for Beginners series. The post GitHub for Beginners: How to get LLMs to do what you want appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Kedasha Kerr3/31/2025

Discover the differences between agent mode and Copilot Edits with GitHub Copilot—and when to use them in your workflows. The post Mastering GitHub Copilot: When to use AI agent mode appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Andrea Griffiths3/25/2025

Get the most out of Copilot with code completion, inline chat, slash commands, Copilot code review, and more. The post GitHub for Beginners: Essential features of GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Kedasha Kerr3/17/2025

Learn to automate dependency management using GitHub Copilot, GitHub Actions, and Dependabot to eliminate manual checks, improve security, and save time for what really matters. The post Video: How to run dependency audits with GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Andrea Griffiths3/5/2025

GitHub Copilot isn't just for developers! Discover how product managers, security professionals, scrum masters, and more use GitHub Copilot to streamline tasks, automate workflows, and boost productivity across teams. The post Not just for developers: How product and security teams can use GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Akash Sharma3/5/2025

Passwords are notoriously difficult to detect with conventional programming approaches. AI can help us find passwords better because it understands context. This blog post will explore the technical challenges we faced with building the feature and the novel and creative ways we solved them. The post Finding leaked passwords with AI: How we built Copilot secret scanning appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Ashwin Mohan3/4/2025

Get started with GitHub Copilot and navigate features like Copilot Chat in this installment of the GitHub for Beginners series. The post GitHub for Beginners: How to get started with GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Kedasha Kerr3/3/2025

GitHub Copilot can streamline your debugging process by troubleshooting in your IDE, analyzing pull requests, and more, helping you tackle issues faster and more robustly. The post How to debug code with GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Jeimy Ruiz2/21/2025

Introducing agent mode for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, announcing the general availability of Copilot Edits, and providing a first look at our SWE agent. The post GitHub Copilot: The agent awakens appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Thomas Dohmke2/6/2025

We share some of the GitHub Copilot team's experience evaluating AI models, with a focus on our offline evaluations—the tests we run before making any change to our production environment. The post How we evaluate AI models and LLMs for GitHub Copilot appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Connor Adams1/17/2025

Learn how to document and explain legacy code with GitHub Copilot with real-world examples. The post Documenting and explaining legacy code with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Christopher Harrison1/15/2025

GitHub uses GitHub to build GitHub, and our CLI extensions are no exception. Read on to find out how we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub! The post How we built the GitHub Skyline CLI extension using GitHub appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Chris Reddington1/15/2025

How Copilot can generate unit tests, refactor code, create documentation, perform multi-file edits, and much more. The post How to use GitHub Copilot: What it can do and real-world examples appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Dylan Birtolo1/8/2025

Explore GitHub’s top blogs of 2024, featuring new tools, AI breakthroughs, and tips to level up your developer game. The post GitHub’s top blogs of 2024 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.

Laura Lindeman12/30/2024