A demonstration animation of a code editor using GitHub Copilot Chat, where the user requests GitHub Copilot to refactor duplicated logic and extract it into a reusable function for a given code snippet.

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Oct 20, 2025 · This topic covers the fundamentals of writing, reading, and understanding code, as well as best practices for maintaining and optimizing it. It includes discussions on different programming …

With Copilot coding agent, all coding and iterating happens on GitHub as part of the pull request workflow. You can create multiple custom agents that specialize in different types of tasks.

Find out about Copilot coding agent policies available for GitHub Copilot Enterprise and GitHub Copilot Business, and about disabling the agent for specific repositories.

Find out how Copilot can work on GitHub issues and raise pull requests for you to review. These articles provide how-to information for using Copilot coding agent.

You can use Copilot to get answers to coding-related questions, such as how best to code something, how to fix a bug, or how someone else's code works. For full details of what Copilot can do, see …

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This guide demonstrates how to get coding suggestions from GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code. To see instructions for other popular coding environments, use the tool switcher at the top of the page.