You're reading from The GitHub Copilot Handbook A practical guide to transforming the software development life cycle with GitHub Copilot

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2025

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781806116638

Length 290 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

CoPilot

Concepts

Web Design

Authors (2):

Rob Bos

Randy Pagels

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. What is GitHub Copilot?

2. GitHub Copilot Explained FREE CHAPTER

3. Getting Started with Generative AI

4. Choosing the Right GitHub Copilot Plan

5. Getting Started with GitHub Copilot

6. Mastering GitHub Copilot in Your IDE: Inline Suggestions, Chat, and Agent Mode

7. Going Beyond Code: Debugging, Terminal, and Collaboration with GitHub Copilot

8. Exploring GitHub Copilot Integrations

9. Collaborating with Copilot on GitHub.com: Issues, PRs, Reviews, and Coding Agent

10. Extending GitHub Copilot with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

11. Getting the Most Out of GitHub Copilot

12. Navigating the GitHub Copilot Learning Curve

13. Building an Internal GitHub Copilot Community

14. Changing the Narrative: Reframing Engineering with AI

15. Unlock Your Exclusive Benefits

Unlock this Book’s Free Benefits in 3 Easy Steps

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Other IDE-integrated tools

Beyond editing and debugging, modern IDEs serve as the nerve center for code review, testing, and quality checks. GitHub Copilot extends its reach into these areas, helping you review code, draft summaries, and work more efficiently, even if your team doesn’t use GitHub.com for pull requests.

Manual pull request summaries and local code review

Teams review code in different ways. Some use hosted pull request workflows on GitHub.com, while others prefer to keep reviews entirely within the IDE. GitHub Copilot supports both approaches by helping you summarize, analyze, and comment on code changes, whether you are working locally or through the GitHub Pull Requests extension.

There are two main ways to take advantage of this:

Manual local review: In this workflow, you highlight diffs, stage changes, or paste snippets into the Chat interface. Copilot then generates summaries or review comments tied directly to the code under review...