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GitHub Copilot CLI

Command-line interface for GitHub Copilot with interactive UI, MCP server management, skills, agents, and shell completion.

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What it does

CLI tool for interacting with GitHub Copilot featuring interactive chat interface, plugin system, MCP server configuration, custom skills and agents, shell completion, and OpenTelemetry monitoring.

Capabilities

Available capabilities

Tags

Tags

Ways to use it

Ways to use it

sdk

Not filed / Not filed

sdk

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cli

Not filed / https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli

cli

Go / gh

sdk

Not filed / Not filed

cli

Not filed / https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli

mcp

Not filed / https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-cli-reference/cli-command-reference

oauth

Not filed / https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-cli-reference/cli-command-reference

mcp

Not filed / https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-cli-reference/cli-programmatic-reference

Product features

Product features

CLI commands

Component path fields

copilot plugins install options

copilot plugins marketplace subcommands

copilot plugins update options

Example plugin.json file

GitHub Copilot CLI plugin reference

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Optional metadata fields

plugin.json

Plugin specification for install command

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