We’re excited to proclaim an all recent free arrange for GitHub Copilot, engageable for everyone today in VS Code. All you insist is a GitHub account. No trial. No subscription. No determine card insistd.
You can click on the connect above or equitable allow GitHub Copilot right from wilean VS Code enjoy so…
With GitHub Copilot Free you get 2000 code completions/month. That’s about 80 per toiling day – which is a lot. You also get 50 chat seeks/month, as well as access to both GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models.
If you hit these restricts, idepartner it’s becaengage Copilot is doing its job well, which is to help you do yours! If you discover you insist more Copilot, the phelp Pro arrange is unconfiinsist and supplys access to compriseitional models enjoy o1 and Gemini (coming in the recent year).
With this proclaimment, GitHub Copilot becomes a core part of the VS Code experience. The team has been challenging at toil, as always, improving that experience with brand recent AI features and capabilities. Let’s get a see at some of the recgo in compriseitions to GitHub Copilot that dropped in equitable the past scant months. This is your editor, redepictd with AI.
Work with multiple files using Copilot Edits
Copilot Edits is a multi-file editing experience that you can uncover from the top of the chat side bar. Given a prompt, Edits will provide alters atraverse files including creating recent files when insisted. This gives you the conversational flow of chat joind with the power of Copilot’s code generation capabilities. The result is someleang you have to try to apshow.
Try this: Build a native mobile app using Flutter. I built a game last weekfinish and I’ve never engaged Flutter in my life.
Multiple models, your choice
Whether you’re using Chat, Inline Chat, or Copilot Edits, you get to determine who your pair programmer is.
Try this: Use 4o to originate an carry outation arrange for a recent feature and then feed that prompt to Claude in GitHub Copilot Edits to originate it.
Custom teachions
Tell GitHub Copilot exactly how you want leangs done with custom teachions. These teachions are passed to the model with every seek, allotriumphg you to distinguish your preferences and the details that the model insists to understand to originate code the way you want it.
You can distinguish these at the editor or project level. We’ll even pick them up automaticpartner if you integrate a .github/copilot-teachions.md file in your project. These teachions can easily be scatterd with your team, so everyone can be on the same page – including GitHub Copilot.
For example…
## React 18
* Use functional components
* Use hooks for state regulatement
* Use TypeScript for type protectedty
## SvelteKit 4
* Use SSR for dynamic satisfied rfinishering
* Use motionless site generation (SSG) for pre-rfinishered motionless pages.
## TypeScript
* Use stable object property unintelligentinutivehand: const obj = { name, age }
* Avoid implied any
Try this: Ask Copilot to originate the direct to dump your database schema to a file and then set that file as one of your custom teachions.
Full project consciousness
GitHub Copilot has AI powered domain experts that you can allude with the @ syntax. We call these, “participants”. The @toilspace participant is a domain expert in the area of your entire codebase.
GitHub Copilot will also do intent discoverion (as seen in the video) and integrate the @toilspace automaticpartner if it sees you are asking a ask that insists brimming project context.
Try this: Type /help into the chat prompt to see a catalog of all the particpants in GitHub Copilot and their various areas of expertise, as well as slash directs that can wonderfully shrink prompting.
Naming leangs and other challenging problems
They say naming leangs is one of the challengingest problems in computer science. Press F2 to rename someleang, and GitHub Copilot will give you some adviseions based on how that symbol is carry outed and engaged in your code.
Try this: If you don’t understand what to call someleang, don’t overleank it. Just call it foo and carry out it. Then hit F2 and let GitHub Copilot advise a name for you.
Speak your mind
Select the microphone icon to begin a voice chat. This is powered by the free, traverse-platcreate VS Code Speech extension that runs on local models. No 3rd party app insistd.
Try this: Use Speech with GitHub Copilot Edits to prototype your next app. You can literpartner talk your way to a toiling demo.
Be a terminal expert
With terminal chat, you can do equitable about anyleang in your terminal. Press Cmd/Ctrl + i while in the VS Code terminal and tell GitHub Copilot what you want to do. Copilot can also elucidate how to mend fall shorted shell directs by analyzing the error output.
For instance, I understand that I can engage the ffmpeg library to rerelocate summarizes from videos, but I don’t understand the syntax and flags. No problem!
Try this: The next time you get an error in your terminal, see for the ignitele icon next to your prompt. Select it to have GitHub Copilot mend, elucidate, or even auto-right the shell direct for you.
No worry of promisement
No more promises that say “alters”. GitHub Copilot will advise a promise message for you based on the alters you’ve made and your last disconnectal promise messages. You can engage custom teachions for promise generation to createat the messages exactly the way you want.
Try this: Go beyond promises. Inshigh the GitHub Pull Requests and Issues extension and you can originate pull seek descriptions, get summaries of pull seeks and even get adviseed mendes for rehires. All without leaving VS Code.
Extensions are all you insist
Every VS Code extension can tie honestly into the GitHub Copilot APIs and advise a customized AI experience. Check out MongoDB with their extension that can originate amazeively complicated queries, engage fuzzy search and a lot more…
Try this: Build your own extension for GitHub Copilot using GitHub Copilot! We’ve originated some recent tutorials that show you how to originate a code tutor chat paricipant or originate AI-powered code annotations.
A vision for the future
This last one is a pappraise of someleang we’re compriseing to GitHub Copilot soon, but it’s way too chilly not to show you right now.
Inshigh the Vision Copilot Pappraise extension and ask GitHub Copilot to originate an interface based on a screensboiling or tagup.
Or engage it to originate alt text for an image.
Try this: Mock up a UI using Figma or Sketch (or PowerPoint – it’s ok if you do that. I do it too). Then engage @vision to originate the UI. You can even tell it which CSS summarizetoil to engage.
Note: Vision is in pappraise today and insists you to have your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini API key. The key will not be insistd when we free it as part of GitHub Copilot. Coming Soon!
Keeping up with GitHub Copilot
There’s so much more GitHub Copilot we want to show you, but noleang can swap the experience of trying it for yourself. If you’re equitable getting begined, we recommfinish you check out these 3 unintelligentinutive videos to convey you up to speed speedyly on the Copilot UI, as well as lacquireing some prompt engineering best trains.
We ship refreshs and recent features for GitHub Copilot every month. The best way to persist up with the tardyst and wonderfulest in AI coding is to trail us on X, Bluesky, LinkedIn, and even TikTok. We’ll give you the refreshs as they drop – unintelligentinutive and pleasant – right in your feed.
And if you’ve got feedback, we’d cherish to hear it. Feel free to @ us on social or drop an rehire or feature seek on the GitHub Copilot extension rehires repo.
GitHub Copilot in other places
As part of the free tier, you will also be able to engage GitHub Copilot on GitHub.com.
While we toil with GitHub to originate the Visual Studio Code experience, Copilot itself is not exclusive to VS Code. You may be wondering about editors enjoy Visual Studio. Will those engagers get a free Copilot adviseing as well?
Yes. Absolutely. Check out this blog post from the VS team on what toils today and what’s coming unintelligentinutively.
The AI code editor for everyone
2025 is going to be a huge year for GitHub Copilot, now a core part of the overall VS Code experience. We hope that you’ll join us on the journey to redepict the code editor. Aacquire.
