GitHub Copilot (CLI)

Tips and tricks for setting up and using GitHub Copilot with the CLI.

Install and Setup

• Brew doesn't set up auto-completion for tools, but it works if you set this up in your shell.

# install 
brew install gh

# configure authentication
gh auth login

# install the copilot extension
gh extension install github/gh-copilot

# upgrade the copilot extension
gh extension upgrade gh-copilot

# disable usage data
gh copilot config

Usage

gh copilot <command> "prompt"

Commands

• config - adjust data collection

• explain - explain a command

• suggest - suggest a command

Explain

• Prompting Copilot to explain a command to me.

Suggest

• Prompting Copilot to build me a command and then providing feedback to improve the command.

Useful Resources

Using GitHub Copilot in the CLI - GitHub DocsGitHub Docs

Setting up GitHub Copilot in the CLI - GitHub DocsGitHub Docs