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[/tʃiːt/] To act dishonestly or unfairly in order to gain an advantage.


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Manual for using Github copilot in VSCode

Use the simplest first (DO NOT USE COMMENTS FOR PROMPTING):

  • Ghost text
  • Inline chat
  • Chat Panel (for something more detailed)

Don’t recreate existing prompts

  • Use slash command for things like /fix, /doc,/explain,/test/ (in the chat prompt box type / and check all available slash commands). Slash commands in GitHub Copilot Chat allow you to quickly specify the intent of your query

Context is everything

  • Add files to chat #
  • Add chat participants @ (filter things out)

Chat

GitHub Copilot agents are custom tools that you can build and integrate with GitHub Copilot Chat to provide additional functionalities tailored to your specific needs:

@workspace: This agent allows you to extend the context of whatever questions you ask Copilot to the whole project @terminal: This agent is useful for command-line related questions. For example, you could ask it to find the largest file in a directory or explain the last command you ran.