GitHub Copilot Chat can help you quickly gain context of lengthy discussions and issues.
IntroductionCopilot 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 discussionsNavigate to an issue or discussion on GitHub.
At the top right of the page, click next to the icon, then click Assistive to open the Copilot Chat panel.
If the panel contains a previous conversation you had with Copilot, click the plus sign icon at the top right of the Copilot panel to start a new conversation.
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.
Tip
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.
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 questionsSummarize this issueWhat 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?What are the proposed solutions for this issue?What are the potential impacts of this issue?What are the next steps for this discussion?RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
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