GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is GitHub’s AI developer platform, spanning inline code suggestions, IDE chat, repository answers, pull request help, code review, and cloud coding agents assigned from issues. Its main advantage is placement: Copilot sits inside GitHub and the editors many teams already use, so it can support both individual coding and team workflows around issues, pull requests, reviews, and enterprise policy.

Top features

• Inline completions and chat: Copilot works in VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, GitHub, and related developer surfaces.
• Copilot coding agent: issues can be assigned to Copilot so it can research the repo, plan a change, make edits, and produce a pull request.
• Pull request support: summaries, review assistance, and code explanations help teams move through review faster.
• GitHub-native context: tight integration with repositories, issues, branches, pull requests, and organization controls.
• Enterprise administration: policy, identity, security, and repository access controls are available for organizations standardizing AI development tools.

Use cases

• Speed up everyday coding with completions while keeping the developer in the editor.
• Hand off contained backlog items or bugs from GitHub Issues to a cloud coding agent.
• Draft tests, documentation, migration changes, and small fixes from repository context.
• Summarize pull requests and support reviewers who need to understand a change quickly.
• Roll out a broadly adopted AI assistant across an engineering organization with centralized controls.