Concepts for providing context to GitHub Copilot

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a protocol that allows you to extend the capabilities of GitHub Copilot by integrating it with other systems.

Understand how gathering context with Copilot Spaces can improve your results and help your teammates.

GitHub Copilot Chat improves responses to questions about code by indexing your repositories.

You can prevent Copilot from accessing certain files.

Knowledge bases allow you to bring together Markdown documentation across one or more repositories, which can then be used as context for Copilot Chat.

Learn about Copilot Extensions.