Browse GitHub Copilot Videos (147)

John Savill shares a quick Azure Weekly Update covering recent platform changes and previews, including VM ephemeral OS disk caching, Azure Functions Flex Consumption custom TLS, user delegation SAS updates, AZD extension framework work, Azure Load Testing Playwright expansion, and new Copilot-related items.

Martin Woodward shares his pick for a new GitHub Copilot feature: the GitHub Copilot app, a native Windows and Mac experience aimed at agentic coding workflows across issues and pull requests, with isolation via separate Git worktrees.

Fokko at Work demos selected new GitHub Copilot features in Visual Studio Code 1.137, including automations, attaching GitHub issues and pull requests directly in chat, and voice mode, with notes on how enterprise policies and pricing plans can affect feature availability.

Visual Studio Code shows how to connect your own Azure-hosted AI models to GitHub Copilot in VS Code using Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), so teams can control which models are available in Copilot and pick the right model for different coding tasks.

Visual Studio Code announces a new “VS Code pet” coding companion that you can trigger from GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code using the /vscode-pet command, and invites the community to submit name ideas during a one-week window.

Sam Morrow discusses GitHub’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), covering what his team is shipping across MCP server and client implementations, plus the spec areas he’s most excited about and what’s coming next.

GitHub explains how to make GitHub Copilot work better in a real project by giving it durable context about your repo. It covers adding custom instructions under .github, defining repeatable “skills” for tasks like testing, using custom agents for bigger workflows, and connecting MCP servers such as Playwright.

Maddy Montaquila explains how a “Aspire-ified” .NET app can give a coding agent more context and control, including a single command to start containers, processes, and the debugger, plus the ability to manage resources and view logs from one place.

Andrea Griffiths and Meagan Cojocar demonstrate GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent running inside Slack and Microsoft Teams, showing how teams can create issues, review diffs, preview HTML, and analyze repository data directly from chat, plus what admins need to enable it safely in enterprise environments.

John Savill recaps the major Microsoft AI updates from August 2026, including new and updated models, routing and content-understanding changes, and a set of Copilot and Azure Copilot improvements that affect how teams use AI features across developer and enterprise environments.

GitHub introduces Project HydraFusion and shares benchmark results claiming higher verified task quality and lower estimated cost versus Claude Opus 5 on Terminal-Bench 2.1. The short also points developers to try HydraFusion as a selectable model via the /experimental feature in GitHub Copilot CLI.

GitHub introduces Project HydraFusion, a research preview for GitHub Copilot that orchestrates multiple AI models at runtime to balance quality, cost, and latency. The video explains how routing strategies like single, cascade, and critique workflows can automatically choose an execution path per task to improve outcomes without manual model selection.

Andrea Griffiths talks with Angela Wen about making a first open-source contribution on GitHub, from finding a good first issue through opening a draft pull request and getting CI checks green. They also cover practical expectations when working with maintainers and what “using Copilot responsibly” looks like in a real PR workflow.

James Montemagno and Matt Soucoup run a beginner-friendly livestream on the GitHub Copilot SDK for .NET, focusing on how to embed Copilot’s agent runtime into your own apps for multi-turn conversations, tool calling, streaming responses, and MCP-based extensibility.

Fokko at Work recaps what’s new across Visual Studio Code 1.133–1.136 with a focus on GitHub Copilot features, showing practical demos like Agent Plugins support, prompt UX improvements, usage details per chat turn, and agent merge workflows.

Stefan Kingham’s documentary traces how Visual Studio Code evolved from early web-based editor experiments into a widely used, open-source developer tool, covering key technical and product shifts like Electron, extensions, LSP, remote development, and the editor’s adaptation to the AI era including GitHub Copilot.

GitHub explains the “AI harness” concept for guiding LLM execution, and how harness engineering adds the runtime, tools, and guardrails that let AI agents work safely against a codebase in agentic workflows.

GitHub hosts a multi-hour Copilot Day live session covering new releases, hands-on demos, and practical workflows, including how Copilot works across GitHub, the CLI, and VS Code, plus a live-coding segment with Burke Holland, Pierce Boggan, and guests.

Microsoft Developer presents a student-focused course that uses the GitHub Copilot app to turn a resume into a live portfolio site, while teaching Git fundamentals, GitHub Pages deployment, Copilot modes, context/tokens, MCP servers, skills, and bring-your-own-model with Azure AI Foundry.

GitHub runs a beginner-friendly virtual training on the GitHub Copilot SDK, focusing on how developers can programmatically interact with Copilot and build custom agent capabilities that fit their team’s workflows across multiple languages.

GitHub introduces canvases in the GitHub Copilot app and shows how beginners can use the /create-canvas skill to generate custom, interactive workflow surfaces like release checklists, kanban boards, and triage views, then iterate on them and share state in real time.

Amanda Silver reflects on major technical shifts behind Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, focusing on VS Code’s open-source architecture and extension ecosystem, and how GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted coding changed what developers expect from an editor and its connected cloud services.

Amanda Silver reflects on how Visual Studio Code grew from an open source editor into a platform shaped by its extension ecosystem, and how GitHub Copilot changed expectations for developer tools by bringing AI-powered coding assistance into everyday workflows.

Yo-Lei Chen demonstrates how to build a full-stack app around SQL Server using GitHub Copilot in VS Code, from database schema design and query assistance through to generating backend code and wiring up REST or GraphQL endpoints.

GitHub explores the GitHub Copilot Teams integration with Slack, focusing on how teams can bring Copilot into their existing collaboration workflow.

Microsoft Developer shares a quick news update covering Agent Optimizer in Microsoft Foundry, the GA release of Agent Plugins 1.0 across multiple Copilot surfaces, and a timeline note that Claude Sonnet 4.6 will leave most GitHub Copilot experiences on September 1.

GitHub shows how the GitHub Copilot app’s built-in diff, terminal, and browser panels help you review and validate AI agent-made changes without constantly switching tools, so you can keep a tighter loop before accepting code updates.

Visual Studio Code shows how to manage the AI models available in VS Code, including GitHub Copilot models, local models, and bring-your-own-key providers, using quick show/hide and pin controls to keep the model list focused on what you actually use.

Visual Studio Code shares a quick tip on using GitHub Copilot in VS Code to generate a correct launch.json by analyzing package.json, so you can run and debug scripts using the built-in debugger without manually remembering configuration syntax.

Kaleb Cole and Kurt Emrich show how to turn a repeated content-publishing routine into reusable GitHub Copilot workflows using agent skills, personas, plugins, and a marketplace, including drafting from notes, reviewing with an agent, converting to HTML, and publishing to GitHub.

Gwendolyn Vongkasemsiri and Garrett Berliner show how to use GitHub Copilot with Bootstrap 5 to modernize an existing portfolio site, focusing on responsive layout, accessible navigation, animated cards, skill badges, hover effects, and a sticky footer without rebuilding from scratch.

Ashley Steitz and Ahmed Ghaddah show how to use the GitHub Copilot app to turn a resume into a simple portfolio website, generating HTML, CSS, and JavaScript from prompts and then iterating on the design with features like a resume preview and dark mode.

Emily Rothrock and Shivani Sundaresan explain how to get better GitHub Copilot results while using fewer tokens by managing Copilot Chat context. They break down what “context” includes, how the context window works, and how to use commands like /context, /init, and /compact to keep sessions focused and accurate.

Alexander Elguezabal walks students through getting GitHub Copilot access via GitHub Education and the Student Developer Pack, then uses Copilot with Visual Studio Code to generate a simple “Hello World” website and open it locally as a starting point for a portfolio site.

Alexander Elguezabal shows how to bring your own AI model into the GitHub Copilot app using Microsoft Foundry and Azure, including creating Foundry resources via the Azure MCP Server, deploying a model, wiring it up as a model provider with an API key, and troubleshooting token rate limits.

Grant Harris and Kaleb Cole show how to control a GitHub Copilot session from a phone using the GitHub Mobile app, including pairing via QR code, answering Copilot’s clarifying questions remotely, and returning to a completed UI feature in the editor canvas for a portfolio site.

Garrett Berliner and Emily Rothrock show how to extend GitHub Copilot using built-in tools and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, including installing the Playwright MCP server to automate a browser session. The episode also covers using file and internet tools, prompt keywords for tool selection, and switching Playwright from Chrome to Microsoft Edge.

Microsoft Developer introduces a beginner-friendly series that teaches GitHub Copilot through a single practical project: turning a resume into a portfolio website, publishing it with GitHub Pages, and iterating using better prompting, context management, MCP servers, and agent skills.

Shivani Sundaresan and Grant Harris walk through configuring the GitHub Copilot app for day-to-day AI-assisted development, focusing on practical settings like accounts, tool permissions, agent instructions, sessions, model selection, and how Interactive, Plan, and Autopilot modes fit together when building features in a repo.

Reynald Adolphe hosts a VS Code Live session with members of the Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot teams, highlighting recent product features and updates across the editor and Copilot experience.