GitHub Copilot

What is GitHub Copilot?

GitHub Copilot is GitHub’s AI coding assistant — the most widely-deployed one in enterprises — offering inline suggestions, chat and an agent mode that can take a task from an issue to a pull request. It is deeply integrated across VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio and GitHub itself.

What does GitHub Copilot do?

Copilot completes code inline, answers codebase questions in chat, and (in agent mode / Copilot coding agent) works a GitHub issue autonomously — editing files, running checks and opening a PR for review. It offers a choice of underlying models and enterprise controls for policy and data handling.

Key features

• Deep IDE + GitHub integration — Works across major IDEs and natively inside GitHub issues and PRs.
• Agent mode — Takes an issue to a pull request autonomously, with checks, for human review.
• Enterprise controls — Org policy, content exclusion and data-handling controls for regulated teams.

What are GitHub Copilot's use cases?

• Enterprise rollout — A large org standardises on Copilot for its governance and IDE coverage.
• Issue-to-PR — A routine bug or small feature is handed to the coding agent to draft a PR.

Why use GitHub Copilot?

• The most enterprise-ready coding assistant, with mature governance.
• Broadest IDE coverage plus native GitHub integration.

Pros & cons

GitHub Copilot pricing

• FreeFree
• Pro$10 / /month
• Business$19 / /user/mo

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