GitHub Copilot

What this tool can do

GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered coding assistant designed to help developers write, understand, and optimize code. It provides context-aware suggestions for lines, functions, or entire implementations, significantly accelerating common development tasks. Copilot analyzes the project structure and adapts its suggestions to the programming language, framework, and coding style.

Typical use cases

Code completion & boilerplate
Automatic suggestions for functions, methods, classes, tests, comments, and repetitive patterns.

Debugging & troubleshooting
Helps identify issues, explains error messages, and suggests alternative implementations.

Refactoring & optimization
Improves existing code, offers cleaner architectures, and proposes more efficient solutions.

Documentation & comments
Generates docstrings, function descriptions, and inline comments.

Learning & exploration
Helps understand new frameworks, languages, and libraries through practical examples.

Everyday developer productivity
Automates small tasks, generates tests, scripts, and helper functions.

GitHub Copilot is offered through subscription-based plans for individuals, teams, and companies. It integrates seamlessly into popular IDEs such as VS Code, JetBrains IDEs, Neovim, and GitHub Codespaces.