Using Copilot to explore issues and discussions

GitHub Copilot Chat can help you quickly gain context of lengthy discussions and issues.

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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

  1. Navigate to an issue or discussion on GitHub.

  2. Na parte superior direita da página, clique no ao lado do ícone e clique em Assistive para abrir o painel Copilot Chat.

  3. Se o painel contiver uma conversa anterior que você teve com o Copilot, clique no ícone de sinal de adição no canto superior direito do painel do Copilot para iniciar uma nova conversa.

  4. 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.

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    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 http://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?

Further reading