GitHub Copilot commands

Ask the AI to analyze the current agent debug logs for troubleshooting.

Create a new project or scaffold a new file from natural language.

Generate a launch.json configuration and start a debugging session.

Open the Chat Debug view to inspect Copilot chat logs.

Show a quick reference and basics of using GitHub Copilot.

Turn a natural-language request into a Search view query.

Fork the current chat into a new independent session with the same history.

Find and fix a failing test.

Create a structured implementation plan before starting code changes.

Summarize the conversation so it uses less of the model's context window.

Propose a fix for problems in the selected code.

Configure your agent skills.

Generate or update workspace instructions such as copilot-instructions.md or AGENTS.md.

Recommend and configure a relevant testing framework, including setup steps and extensions.

Explain how the code in your active editor works.

Configure your custom instructions.

Scaffold a new Jupyter notebook from your requirements.

Generate unit tests for the selected code.

Generate code documentation comments from inline chat.

Start a new chat session in Copilot Chat.

Configure your custom agents.