A repository contains all of your code, your files, and each file's revision history. You can discuss and manage your work within the repository.

Create repository custom instructions files that give Copilot additional context on how to understand your project and how to build, test and validate its changes.

This repository contains the source code for Choose a License, a Jekyll website that shares information about open source licenses. We're particularly interested in the Licenses page, …

Learn to use and manage the repositories that allow you to store and collaborate on your project's code.

With Copilot coding agent, all coding and iterating happens on GitHub as part of the pull request workflow. You can create multiple custom agents that specialize in different types of tasks.

Copilot coding agent first prioritizes repository-wide custom instructions. For more information on how to configure organization custom instructions, see Adding organization custom …

Find out about Copilot coding agent policies available for GitHub Copilot Enterprise and GitHub Copilot Business, and about disabling the agent for specific repositories.

Now that your development environment is set up, you can start the development server and use it to preview changes to your code. Find out how to start the project by checking the README …

In the sidebar, under "Code, planning, and automation", click Copilot, and then click coding agent. Use the "Repository access" control to define which repositories allow Copilot coding agent.

You'll create your own Hello World repository and learn GitHub's pull request workflow, a popular way to create and review code. In this quickstart guide, you will: