How do I use GitHub Copilot extension in VS Code? To use GitHub Copilot, you need to first install the GitHub Copilot extension in Visual Studio.

The original AI-powered code completion tool stemming from early OpenAI technology, GitHub Copilot, now comes in a free tier for the Visual Studio IDE and Visual Studio Code, along with other editors.

GitHub Copilot first launched as a technical preview last June, and Visual Studio 2022 was the most requested IDE by the community.

So you've finally been plucked off the GitHub Copilot chat waitlist. Now what? The eagerly awaited coding assistant/chat integration-- Copilot meets ChatGPT -- in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio ...

It is currently in open beta and available for all GitHub Copilot individual users across Visual Studio and VS Code.

Developers using Visual Studio Codespaces will need to move to GitHub Codespaces but there's no way to migrate existing projects from one service to the other.