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Using GitHub Copilot in GitHub Codespaces

You can use Copilot in GitHub Codespaces by adding the extension.

GitHub Codespaces is available for organizations using GitHub Team or GitHub Enterprise Cloud. For more information, see "GitHub's products."

Using GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot, an AI pair programmer, can be used in any codespace. To start using Copilot in GitHub Codespaces, install the Copilot extension from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.

To include Copilot, or other extensions, in all of your codespaces, enable Settings Sync. For more information, see "Personalizing GitHub Codespaces for your account." Additionally, to include Copilot in a given project for all users, you can specify GitHub.copilot as an extension in your devcontainer.json file. For information about configuring a devcontainer.json file, see "Introduction to dev containers."