GitHub Copilot for Developers: Complete Introduction to Agents, Tools & Modes

In this video, we take a complete introduction to GitHub Copilot and understand how it fits into the Microsoft and GitHub ecosystem. We cover: 🔹 What is GitHub Copilot? 🔹 Where GitHub Copilot fits in the Microsoft Copilot ecosystem 🔹 GitHub Copilot plans and capabilities 🔹 Installing and getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code 🔹 Copilot Chat and code completion 🔹 Code review and pull-request level review 🔹 Built-in agents vs custom agents 🔹 Extension-based agents 🔹 Ask, Plan and Agent modes 🔹 Models and how model selection works 🔹 Tools such as Read, Edit, Execute and Search 🔹 Sessions, checkpoints and conversation compaction 🔹 Local vs Cloud agent runtimes 🔹 How the Copilot runtime provides repository context to the LLM 🔹 Using GitHub Copilot for simple tasks as well as larger development projects The goal is to build a solid foundation before moving into more advanced GitHub Copilot agent development. 🚀 In the next video, we will go deeper and create our first custom GitHub Copilot agent. #GitHubCopilot #GitHub #AI #Microsoft #Azure #DevOps #SoftwareDevelopment #CopilotAgents #VSCode