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. 单击 图标旁边的 ，然后单击“Assistive”以打开 Copilot Chat 面板********。

  3. 如果面板包含与 Copilot 的上一个对话，请单击 Copilot 面板右上角的 加号图标以启动新对话。

  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.

    提示

    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?

Further reading