GitHub Copilot

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A modern AI-powered coding assistant, deeply integrated into your development workflow.

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⚙️ Overview

GitHub Copilot helps you write code faster by giving context-aware suggestions, code completions, chat-based assistance, and autonomous agents. It works across IDEs, the GitHub web interface, CLI, and more.

Copilot supports multiple models (e.g. GPT-4.1, Claude, Gemini), enabling you to choose or auto-switch based on task.
It offers free usage quotas as well as paid tiers for heavy use and organizational features.

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🏷️ Pricing & Plans

Below is an approximate breakdown of individual and organization plans as of 2025.
(Data from GitHub documentation) :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}

Plan / Tier	Price (USD)	Included Features & Limits
Free	$0	Up to 2,000 completions per month + 50 “premium requests” (for chat, agent mode, code review) :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}
Pro (Individual)	$10 / month or $100 / year	Unlimited completions, 300 premium requests, access to newer models and chat features :contentReference[oaicite:2]{index=2}
Pro+	$39 / month or $390 / year	Everything in Pro + higher premium request quota (1,500), full model access, advanced features :contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}
Business	$19 per user / month	Organizational features (license management, policies, IP protection, audit logs) :contentReference[oaicite:4]{index=4}
Enterprise	$39 per user / month (or custom)	Advanced enterprise integrations, deeper platform embedding, custom models, etc. :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}

Premium requests are consumed by operations such as Copilot Chat, Agent Mode, code review flows, and advanced model usage. Free plans have limited premium requests; paid plans allot more and often allow purchase of extra requests. :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}

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🧠 Models & Capabilities

• Copilot supports multiple large language models (LLMs) under the hood.
• Users can access models like GPT-4.1, Claude (Sonnet / Opus), Gemini Pro, and others depending on tier. :contentReference[oaicite:7]{index=7}
• In advanced tiers, full model selection or automatic routing (“smart mode”) is available.
• Agent mode allows giving higher-level tasks to Copilot (e.g. “implement feature X”), where Copilot may open files, apply code changes, or orchestrate actions.
• Chat mode enables asking Copilot questions, getting explanations, debugging help, etc.

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🚀 Features

Copilot (as though open source) would provide:

• Code completions & suggestions: auto-complete lines, entire functions, refactor code
• Inline chat assistant: ask Copilot about your code, get explanations or suggestions
• Agent / autonomous tasks: delegate higher-level tasks
• Code review & pull request summaries
• Multi-IDE integration: VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, CLI
• Organization tools: seat management, usage policies, audit logs
• Model selection & routing
• Usage analytics & telemetry (opt-in)
• Plugin / extension APIs for community contributions

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🚧 Considerations & Risks

• Security: AI-generated code may introduce vulnerabilities. A study found ~24-30% of snippets in JS/Python had weaknesses (e.g. XSS, code injection). :contentReference[oaicite:8]{index=8}
• Model correctness / hallucinations: Not all suggestions are correct; human review remains essential.
• Data & privacy: Depending on how telemetry or context is sent, there may be concerns about sending proprietary or sensitive code to model endpoints.
• Fair use / training data licensing: As with many AI tools trained on public code, licensing and attribution issues may arise.
• Quota limits: Free tiers impose limits on completions or premium requests, which may be restrictive for heavy users.

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