GitHub Copilot

This page provides resources to help you use, understand, and adopt GitHub Copilot.

Demonstrations & Use Cases

• 🎥 GitHub Copilot Showcase: Videos showcasing how I use GitHub Copilot for various use cases.
• 📝 Coding with Copilot: Blog posts and videos on using GitHub Copilot for coding.
• 🎥 See how Copilot is helping me to code

Using GitHub Copilot

This section offers resources to help you learn and effectively use GitHub Copilot.

Prompt & Context Engineering

Clear prompt and context engineering is essential because it steers Copilot toward the right intent, reduces the need for rework, and makes AI-assisted coding reliable for teams that depend on precise guidance. Here are some resources to help you master this skill:

• 📚 Awesome Copilot Instructions, prompts, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot. (other example in Copilot Documentation)
• 📚 Manage context for AI Focus on VSCode context features, but very interesting as general purpose too
• 📚 Code reviewer Instructions for thorough and constructive code reviews.
• 📝 5 Tips for Writing Better Custom Instructions for Copilot
• 📝 How to build, test, review, and ship code faster (with real prompts)
• 📝 How to build reliable AI workflows with agentic primitives and context engineering

Spec Driven Development with AI

• 📝 Spec-Kit: Get started with a new open source toolkit
• 📝 Using Markdown as a programming language when building with AI

Coding & Reviewing with GitHub Copilot Agents

• 📚 Customizing the development environment for GitHub Copilot coding agent
• 📚 Creating custom agents
• 📚 Coding Agent & VSCode

Tips & Techniques

• 📚 Copilot Chat Cookbook
• 📚 Getting the most out of Copilot (applies to all IDEs)

  The page explains how GitHub Copilot in VS Code suggests and completes code based on context. Tips include writing clear comments and refining prompts for better AI suggestions. It also covers customizing settings and integrating Copilot into the developer workflows.

• 📚 Using GitHub Copilot

  The page explains how to use GitHub Copilot for code generation and productivity, covering its integration in IDEs, best practices, and examples like refactoring and test creation.

Demonstrations & Use Cases

• 🎥 GitHub Copilot Showcase: Videos showcasing how I use GitHub Copilot for various use cases.

Legend

• 📝 : Blog post
• 📚 : Documentation
• 📓 : Research paper
• 🎥 : Video