GitHub Copilot now available in github.com for Copilot Individual and Copilot Business plans

Today, GitHub Copilot Individual and Business plans now include preview access to Copilot functionality, including GitHub Copilot Chat, in github.com. The integration with GitHub allows Copilot to leverage the rich context from repositories, pull requests, issues, actions, and more, providing you with more valuable interactions, more tailored coding assistance, and an AI-native developer experience with GitHub.

Doing more with what you know

With this latest release, GitHub Copilot is now ubiquitous across the IDE, Visual Studio Code, browser, and mobile for all Copilot users and is there to assist you across the software development lifecycle. Whether you’re on the browser or mobile, you can now use Copilot not only as an AI pair programmer that makes code suggestions, but also as a coding assistant powered by entire codebases, conversations between collaborators, and workflows.

Now, you can ask Copilot to help:

• Explore GitHub through powerful natural language search. Trying to understand a new codebase? Copilot can help with that. You can ask Copilot questions to help quickly understand the structure and key components of repositories. Check out how.

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• Understand code faster. Struggling to understand what a piece of code does? Ask Copilot to explain it to you—it’s like having a knowledgeable teammate who’s always available to help without having to clone the repository locally.

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• Quickly gain context. Draft summaries for pull requests or outline key takeaways from discussions threads with the help of Copilot, making it easier for you and your team to get up to speed and stay aligned.

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• Analyze failing GitHub Actions jobs to identify issues (public preview). We all know the pain of broken Actions jobs. Copilot can help you analyze failing builds and make suggestions so you can get back on track.

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• Get insights on the go. When you’re out and about, you can chat with Copilot in GitHub Mobile about your private repositories to quickly catch up on updates to code, issues, pull requests, and more.

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Dig deeper with OpenAI o1

For questions that require more time and intensive analysis by GitHub Copilot to construct a response, switch into immersive mode, or go directly to github.com/copilot. You can even try using an OpenAI o1 model to power your conversation. We know that one model doesn’t fit each and every task, so while the base model for GitHub Copilot Chat, GPT-4o, may provide satisfactory explanations on pull request diffs and generate great boilerplate code, o1-preview or o1-mini may suit complex tasks like crafting advanced algorithms or helping to fix performance bugs much better. Join the waitlist for early access to OpenAI o1 for Copilot Chat in immersive mode.

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Get started today

By integrating GitHub Copilot into GitHub, we’re taking another step of putting AI right where you need it—whether you’re coding in an editor or troubleshooting and collaborating with your team in github.com. And with a growing ecosystem of GitHub Copilot Extensions, you can even integrate your favorite third-party and critical internal developer tools with Copilot to keep you in your flow state. This update is designed to streamline your development process, empower you with your organization’s context, and allow you to focus on what you do best—creating great software.

How to access GitHub Copilot in github.com

If you’re part of an organization with GitHub Copilot Enterprise, you’re already familiar with these features. For those on Copilot Individual or Copilot Business plans, see below on how to get access to Copilot in GitHub.

• For Copilot Individual users: if you have a Copilot Individual license, you’re all set! Visit github.com or GitHub Mobile and you’ll see the Copilot icon. Or go directly to github.com/copilot.
• For Copilot Business users: if you have a Copilot Business license through an organization, you’ll need to ask your organization administrator to enable Copilot in GitHub. Learn how to do this.

As with all GitHub betas, these features are governed by our pre-release terms. We’re eager to see how you all leverage these new capabilities, and, as always, you can provide feedback in the GitHub Community.

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