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The GitHub Copilot Handbook

The GitHub Copilot Handbook

By : Rob Bos, Randy Pagels
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The GitHub Copilot Handbook

The GitHub Copilot Handbook

By: Rob Bos, Randy Pagels

Overview of this book

Cross-functional product teams are under constant pressure to build and ship faster, but too much time is lost to manual coding, slow reviews, and fragmented workflows. GitHub Copilot streamlines day-to-day coding so your team can focus on delivering value to users while maintaining high quality on real projects. Written by industry experts Rob Bos and Randy Pagels, this book shows how GitHub Copilot supports your work from start to finish. You’ll learn how to turn ideas into tasks, write code with fewer hiccups, spot problems earlier, and understand errors when things go wrong. You’ll also see how Copilot suggests improvements in pull requests and helps fix common build issues, enabling teams to keep moving and ship with confidence. You’ll integrate GitHub Copilot into daily routines, share it across roles, and make it stick with simple checklists and clear examples. You’ll also track what works, set guardrails, and build an internal community. By the end, you’ll know when GitHub Copilot helps – and when it doesn’t – and you’ll be ready to write, review, and ship code with confidence on real projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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What is GitHub Copilot?
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Getting Started with GitHub Copilot
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Exploring GitHub Copilot Integrations
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Getting the Most Out of GitHub Copilot
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Other Books You May Enjoy
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Index

Coding Agent on GitHub.com

The GitHub Copilot Coding Agent brings automation directly into the browser by letting you delegate entire issues to Copilot. Instead of drafting fixes or writing code yourself, you can assign a task in GitHub.com and Copilot will take it from there. The agent runs in a secure cloud environment, makes changes on a new branch, opens a draft PR, and tags you for review. This turns issues into actionable work items that can move forward without waiting for human availability, while still keeping you in control of the final review and merge.

Coding Agent versus Agent Mode

GitHub offers two related but distinct ways of handing off work to AI: the Coding Agent and Agent Mode. Both fall under the broader idea of agentic AI, where you describe a task and the system iterates until it produces a result. The difference lies in where the work happens and how it is applied:

  • Agent Mode (in the IDE): You select Agent Mode in your editor’s chat...
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