5 tips and tricks when using GitHub Copilot Workspace

Created by @Aditya Bavadekar on Mon Oct 28 2024

Can you believe it has already been five months since we announced the technical preview of GitHub Copilot Workspace? Throughout that time, the GitHub Next team has been listening and learning from the community and steadily iterating on it. For those joining us at GitHub Universe, we will be talking about GitHub Next’s journey to create Copilot Workspace, along with some valuable concepts and learnings gleaned along the way. But while we put the finishing touches on our talk, we wanted to share a few tips and tricks that we have picked up, both from ourselves and from the amazing community of developers using Copilot Workspace every day. _Before we get started, let’s briefly recap Copilot Workspace and how it works._ ## What is Copilot Workspace, and how does it work? Copilot Workspace is a Copilot-native dev environment designed to help you complete everyday coding tasks. From GitHub, you can open a GitHub issue, pull request, template repository, or an ad-hoc task in Copilot Workspace and start working on the problem. ## Did you know? You can start a Copilot Workspace session outside of the above routes. Copilot Workspace sessions take a handful of query parameters, including the task and repository. So, you could build your own entry point. For example, the GitHub Next team built an extension for Raycast!