Using Copilot to explore issues and discussions

Introduction

Copilot can help you quickly gain context of lengthy discussions and issues on GitHub. You can ask Copilot to summarize discussions, identify key participants, and provide insights into the status of an issue or discussion.

The quality of Copilot Chat's responses may be degraded when working with issues or discussions that have very long bodies or a large number of comments. For example, this may occur if you ask Copilot to summarize a long-running discussion. Where this happens, Copilot will warn you so you can double check its output.

Exploring issues and discussions

Navigate to an issue or discussion on GitHub.
En haut à droite de la page, cliquez sur à côté de l’icône , puis cliquez sur Assistance pour ouvrir le panneau Copilot Chat.
Si le panneau contient une conversation précédente que vous avez eue avec Copilot, cliquez sur l’icône du signe plus dans le coin supérieur droit du panneau Copilot pour entamer une nouvelle conversation.
At the bottom of the Copilot chat panel, in the prompt box, type a question and press Enter.

Copilot responds to your request in the panel.

Conseil

Instead of navigating to an issue or discussion in your browser to ask a question, you can include the relevant URL in your message. For example, Summarize https://github.com/monalisa/octokit/issues/1.

Example prompts

The following prompts are examples of the kind of questions you can ask Copilot to help you find out about an issue or discussion.

General questions

Summarize this issue
What is the current status of this discussion?
What are the main points of contention in this issue?
Who are the key participants in this discussion?

Specific questions

What are the proposed solutions for this issue?
What are the potential impacts of this issue?
What are the next steps for this discussion?