Prompting and context for GitHub Copilot

Follow these strategies to improve your Copilot results.

Understand how Copilot manages conversation context, what happens during long sessions, and how to stay in control of your context window.

Customize GitHub Copilot responses to your preferences, project conventions, and organization requirements.

Save task-specific instructions and context in reusable Markdown prompt files for individual Copilot interactions.

Copilot improves responses by indexing your repositories.

Understand how organizing and sharing context with Copilot Spaces can improve your Copilot Chat in GitHub results and help your collaborators.

Copilot Memory helps Copilot become more effective over time by remembering facts about your repositories and your personal coding preferences.