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GitHub Copilot Cookbook

Learn how to use GitHub Copilot to accomplish specific tasks.

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👁 Implementing a feature from a GitHub Issue

Implementing a feature from a GitHub Issue

Give a GitHub issue to GitHub Copilot CLI, then steer the conversation to implement the feature.
👁 Diagnosing CI test failures

Diagnosing CI test failures

Use Copilot CLI to pull CI logs, correlate failures to local code, and fix issues without leaving the terminal.
👁 Improving code readability and maintainability

Improving code readability and maintainability

Copilot Chat can suggest ways to make your code easier to understand and maintain.

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  • Creating templates

    Copilot Chat can help you create templates to streamline your workflow and ensure consistency across your projects.
    • Communicate effectively
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    • Chat

  • Triage and summarize repository activity

    Copilot can extract key information from repositories you follow to keep you up-to-date on recent activity.
    • Communicate effectively
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    • Scale institutional knowledge
    • CLI

  • Synthesizing research

    Copilot Chat can help you synthesize research findings and insights from multiple sources into a cohesive summary.
    • Communicate effectively
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    • Scale institutional knowledge
    • Chat

  • Creating diagrams

    GitHub Copilot Chat can help you create diagrams to better understand your data and communicate insights.
    • Communicate effectively
    • Visualize data
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  • Generating tables

    Copilot Chat can help you create tables to organize information and present it clearly.
    • Communicate effectively
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    • Chat

  • Debugging invalid JSON

    Copilot Chat can identify and resolve syntax errors or structural issues in JSON data.
    • Debugging code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Handling API rate limits

    Copilot Chat can help handle API rate limits by suggesting code that detects them and implements retry logic.
    • Debugging code
    • Author and optimize with Copilot
    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Diagnosing CI test failures

    Use Copilot CLI to pull CI logs, correlate failures to local code, and fix issues without leaving the terminal.
    • Debugging code
    • Author and optimize with Copilot
    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • CLI

  • Exploring potential feature implementations

    Copilot Chat can help explore different approaches for implementing a single feature.
    • Functionality analysis
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    • Scale institutional knowledge
    • Chat

  • Analyzing and incorporating user feedback

    Copilot Chat can enhance the process of incorporating user feedback into your project.
    • Functionality analysis
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    • Scale institutional knowledge
    • Chat

  • Implementing a feature from a GitHub Issue

    Give a GitHub issue to GitHub Copilot CLI, then steer the conversation to implement the feature.
    • Author and optimize with Copilot
    • CLI

  • Improving code readability and maintainability

    Copilot Chat can suggest ways to make your code easier to understand and maintain.
    • Refactoring code
    • Author and optimize with Copilot
    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Fixing lint errors

    Copilot Chat can suggest ways to fix issues identified by a code linter.
    • Refactoring code
    • Author and optimize with Copilot
    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Refactoring for performance optimization

    Copilot Chat can suggest ways to speed up slow-running code.
    • Refactoring code
    • Author and optimize with Copilot
    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Refactoring for environmental sustainability

    Copilot Chat can suggest ways to make code more environmentally friendly.
    • Refactoring code
    • Improve quality and maintainability
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    • Chat

  • Refactoring to implement a design pattern

    Copilot Chat can suggest design patterns that you can use to improve your code.
    • Refactoring code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Refactoring data access layers

    Copilot Chat can suggest ways to decouple your data access code from your business logic, making an application easier to maintain and scale.
    • Refactoring code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Decoupling business logic from UI components

    Copilot Chat can help you separate your business logic from your user interface code, making it easier to maintain and scale your application.
    • Refactoring code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Handling cross-cutting concerns

    Copilot Chat can help you avoid code that relates to a concern other than the core concern of the method or function in which the code is located.
    • Refactoring code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Simplifying complex inheritance hierarchies

    Copilot Chat can help you to refactor code to avoid classes with multiple layers of inheritance.
    • Refactoring code
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    • Chat

  • Fixing database deadlocks or data integrity issues

    Copilot Chat can help you avoid code that causes slow or blocked database operations, or tables with missing or incorrect data.
    • Refactoring code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Translating code to a different programming language

    Copilot Chat can help you rewrite code to perform the same operations but in a different programming language.
    • Refactoring code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Filing issues without breaking your flow

    When something catches your attention mid-task, use Copilot CLI to file a GitHub issue with code context, linked PRs, and labels, then get back to what you were doing.
    • Documenting code
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    • CLI

  • Documenting legacy code

    Copilot Chat can help with documenting legacy code.
    • Documenting code
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    • Chat

  • Explaining legacy code

    Copilot Chat can help with explaining unfamiliar code.
    • Documenting code
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    • Chat

  • Explaining complex algorithms or logic

    Copilot Chat can help add clear and concise documentation on complex algorithms or logic.
    • Documenting code
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    • Scale institutional knowledge
    • Chat

  • Syncing documentation with code changes

    Copilot Chat can help with keeping code documentation up-to-date.
    • Documenting code
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    • Scale institutional knowledge
    • Chat

  • Writing discussions or blog posts

    Copilot Chat can help you generate ideas, outline, or draft discussions or blog posts.
    • Documenting code
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    • Scale institutional knowledge
    • Chat

  • Generating unit tests

    Copilot Chat can help with generating unit tests for a function.
    • Testing code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Creating mock objects to abstract layers

    Copilot Chat can help with creating mock objects that you can use for unit tests.
    • Testing code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Creating end-to-end tests for a webpage

    Copilot Chat can help with generating end-to-end tests.
    • Testing code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Updating unit tests to match code changes

    Copilot Chat can help with updating your tests.
    • Testing code
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Securing your repository

    Copilot Chat can help you to secure your repository and your code.
    • Security analysis
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Managing dependency updates

    Copilot Chat can help you get set up with Dependabot to streamline dependency updates.
    • Security analysis
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat

  • Finding existing vulnerabilities in code

    Copilot Chat can help find common vulnerabilities in your code and suggest fixes.
    • Security analysis
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    • Improve quality and maintainability
    • Chat