Copilot Extensions now in Public Beta

[LiteBrite82]

Copilot Extensions now in Public Beta

We’re thrilled to announce the public beta release of GitHub Copilot Extensions, available starting September 9th, 2024. Whether you’re a developer looking to leverage existing extensions or a builder excited to create new integrations, Copilot Extensions now offers a platform to make that happen. Copilot Extensions allow developers to build or install integrations into Copilot Chat on github.com and all supported editors (Visual Studio and VS Code) to increase productivity by seamlessly integrating external tools and context into the developer workflow.

What's New in the Public Beta?

• Open Access: All Copilot users, organizations, and enterprises (on supported plans) can now install and use Copilot Extensions.
• Build your own extension: Any developer or organization can create Copilot extensions, including private and public extensions for organizations, and the option to publish your extension to the GitHub Marketplace
• Extension Toolkit: We've released a comprehensive set of resources for builders; with a learning pathway, docs, the Copilot-Extensions organization with code samples and an initial SDK, and a CLI debugging tool.

Get Started Today

Explore the GitHub Marketplace to try a Copilot Extension, or check out our Getting Started Guide to build your own.

Feedback

We’re eager to hear about your experience, as a user or builder, during pubic beta.

For general feedback or feature requests around using and building extensions, please post in the comments below.
For detailed builder feedback to the GitHub product team, fill out the Extension Builders Survey.
For user feedback to a specific extension publisher, please file an issue in the user-feedback repo with a label for the publisher's listing name attached.

[kyleli626]

Feature request -

Chat participants, and thus copilot (and copilot chat) extensions, don’t seem to work for inline-chat

• possible pr
• closed issue

For example, try @ workspace in an inline chat. This seems to limit ability of extensions, especially since (in my experience), I tend to use more inline chat vs chat view.

[sharonlo]

That's great feedback @kyleli626! definitely looking into how we support extensions to inline chat :)