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What's GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is your AI-powered coding assistant, offering assistance throughout your software development journey. Leveraging large language models, it offers suggestions via code completions, Ask mode, and Agent Mode, as detailed below:

• Code Completions: Receive auto-complete suggestions from GitHub Copilot by writing code or describing intent in natural language comments. • Ask: Engage in conversations about your codebase within your IDE — whether debugging or building features, just ask Copilot for help. • Agent: Experience an autonomous coding companion that understands your project context and takes proactive actions. In agent mode, GitHub Copilot can fix errors, suggest and execute commands, and iterate based on feedback — enabling increasingly accurate, self-improving assistance. • Planning: The plan agent helps you create detailed implementation plans upfront, ensuring all requirements are covered before development begins. • Model Context Protocol (MCP): Extends agent mode by connecting Copilot to external tools and services, enabling more powerful workflows directly in JetBrains IDEs.

Feedback & Support

Copilot Plugin Feedback: Users are encouraged to submit technical/product feedback or report problems directly via our Public Repository.

Survey: You can also share your experience by filling in a private survey at https://aka.ms/ghcp-jb-survey, with an optional follow-up interview with our team.

General Support: For account, billing, or global service inquiries, please reach out via GitHub Support.

Getting access to GitHub Copilot

Sign up for a 30 day free trial with GitHub Copilot today or request Copilot access from your enterprise admin. To access GitHub Copilot, an active GitHub Copilot license is required. You can read more about our business and individual offerings at github.com/features/copilot. Users holding a GitHub Copilot Individual subscription can utilize GitHub Copilot Chat in JetBrains, in addition to our code completion features, by clicking the Copilot Chat icon in the Right Tool Window Bar.

Owners of organizations with a Copilot Business subscription can decide whether to grant access to GitHub Copilot Chat. If your organization's administrator has given chat access permissions, you can initiate the use of our chat feature by clicking on the Copilot Chat icon in the Right Tool Window Bar.

Supported languages, IDEs and framework

GitHub Copilot works on any language, including Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, C#, or C++. Because it's been trained on languages in public repositories, it works for most popular languages, libraries and frameworks. It's also integrated into your editor, and fast enough to use as you type.

What can you do with GitHub Copilot?

GitHub Copilot offers numerous possibilities, serving as your comprehensive coding assistance and guiding you throughout your coding journey from start to finish. Here are a few use cases to illustrate its value.

• Through our code completion features, you can autocomplete your code block, convert comments to code, create unit tests and much more using your preferred language. • Through our chat features, you can ask coding-specific queries, receive code explanations, generate unit tests, refactor your code, and much more

Data and telemetry

The GitHub Copilot Extension for JetBrains IDEs collects usage data and sends it to Microsoft to help improve our products and services. Read our privacy statement to learn more. This data collection can be disabled at any time through the extension settings.

Privacy

Please refer to our Privacy Statement to learn about the data we collect, how we use it, and the controls available to you.

FAQ

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Trusted by Developers Everyday

• "This is the single most mind-blowing application of machine learning I've ever seen." - Mike Krieger // Co-founder, Instagram • "GitHub Copilot works shockingly well. I will never develop software without it again." - Lars Gyrup Brink Nielsen • "I was stunned when I started writing Clojure with GitHub Copilot and it filled an idiomatic namespace require, just like I was going to write it." - Gunnika Batra // Senior Analyst • "Trying to code in an unfamiliar language by googling everything is like navigating a foreign country with just a phrasebook. Using GitHub Copilot is like hiring an interpreter." - Harri Edwards // Open AI

Moreover, the numbers speak for themselves

Research has found GitHub Copilot helps developers code faster, focus on solving bigger problems, stay in the flow longer, and feel more fulfilled with their work.

• 74% of developers are able to focus on more satisfying work • 88% feel more productive • 96% of developers are faster with repetitive tasks

Copilot License Terms

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