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

Real-world workflow scenarios

The real strength of GitHub Copilot’s IDE integrations shines when you use them together in daily tasks. This section brings together terminal assistance, GitHub Copilot CLI, debugging, local code review, and testing support into hands-on, practical flows, so you can see how these features combine to save time and reduce context-switching.

Scenario 1: From bug discovery to fix and review

Imagine that you’re running integration tests in your IDE’s terminal and see a failing test. What do you do?

Begin by investigating the bug. You can do either of the following:

Highlight the error message or failing line and use the inline prompt Explain this error and suggest a fix. This option provides an explanation and suggests updated code directly in context.
Click the Fix Test Failure icon next to the failing test. This option analyzes the failure automatically and proposes a direct fix without requiring a typed...