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

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16. Other Books You May Enjoy

17. Index

Summary

In this chapter, you learned all about the Modern Context Protocol – you learned what it is, how to install it, and the difference between local and remote servers. Plus, you saw how to chain two servers in one chat – using the Azure MCP server to fetch an error and the GitHub MCP server to create an issue. Finally, you saw how repository-level MCP configuration can be used by the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent, with Jira as a practical example of pulling live project data directly into your editor.

In the next chapter, we’ll focus on the AI/Copilot learning curve. GitHub Copilot is not just autocomplete, and just handing out licenses is not a rollout plan. Most progress comes from watching others, sharing what works, and moving from suggestions to chat, to edits, to agents, at a pace the team can handle. You will look at the lessons we have learned in our AI/Copilot journey, and see how simple habits help you set clear outcomes.

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