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We are excited to announce that all paying Copilot customers can now use the technical preview of GitHub Copilot Workspace.

Copilot Workspace is a Copilot-native development environment designed to help you with everyday tasks, from idea to merge.

Starting from a GitHub Issue or natural language task, you can work with Copilot Workspace to iterate on solving your problem. Together, you can:

• Brainstorm your ideas: Ask Copilot questions about how your codebase currently works, and explore ideas for how to solve your task.
• Plan your changes: Leverage Copilot Workspace to generate a comprehensive plan for your code change, surfacing relevant code and describing the changes necessary in each file to achieve your goal.
• Implement and validate: Let Copilot Workspace propose code changes that you can iterate on and refine in natural language or code. You can even build, run, and test the code directly within Copilot Workspace with a fully functional compute environment provided by GitHub Codespaces before creating a pull request.

Everything that GitHub Copilot Workspace proposes – from the plan to the code – is fully editable, allowing you to rapidly iterate until you’re confident in the change.

To find out more, check out the blog that first launched Copilot Workspace to the world.

Getting Started

Sign up for the technical preview by logging into Copilot Workspace. Please note that Enterprise Managed Users are not eligible for the technical preview.

Once you have access, check out the user manual, or these 5 helpful tips and tricks for getting the most out of Copilot Workspace.

Organization administrators can enable members to use Copilot Workspace with repositories owned by their organization by approving the Copilot Workspace OAuth app for the organization. OAuth app restrictions are enabled by default when new organizations are created, so unless you’ve changed this setting, members of your organization will not have access to Copilot Workspace on organization-owned repositories by default. To enable Copilot Workspace for your organization’s repositories:

• Enable Copilot Extensions
• Opt-in to Copilot feature previews
• Approve the GitHub Copilot Workspace OAuth application for any organizations where you want developer access

You can share any questions, concerns, or ideas in this discussion post. We can’t wait to see what you build!

Welcome to another week of Copilot Workspace updates! We have a bunch this week, so let’s jump right in! 🎉
– Copilot Workspace
– Handling large files
– Copying the branch name
– Improvements to the diff editor
– Bug fixes
– Copilot Workspace for PRs
– New file path auto-populating
– Individual file resets
– Hiding trailing whitespace
– Add indication when suggestion cannot be applied
– Accessibility improvements
– Bug fixes

Copilot Workspace

Handling large files

Workspace will now inform you when a file is too large to be displayed, and link you to view the file in the repo editor.

Copying the branch name

Now when selecting a branch, you’ll be able to copy the branch name to your clipboard. You’ll will see a check mark after successfully copying the branch name.

Improvements to the diff editor

• The scrolling experience has been improved, allowing you to scroll through all your files at once instead of each file individually.
• We’ve enabled collapsing regions outside the diff, and are showing 3 lines of context padding the diff.
• We’ve enabled word wrapping within the editor.

Bug fixes

• Empty files now display correctly
• Fixed a bug during plan creation that was causing Copilot Workspace to crash
• No longer does renaming the spec question include a scroll bar
• Fixed an issue where renamed files did not update all references across the plan, tabs, and editor. Now when you rename a file you will see that name change reflected everywhere.

Copilot Workspace for PRs

New file path auto-populating

Adding new files will auto-populate the path, making it easier to add new files to your repository.

Individual file resets

You can now reset individual files, rather than having to reset the state of all changes.

Hiding trailing whitespace

We’ve enabled an option for you to hide whitespace when viewing a diff.

Add indication when suggestion cannot be applied

We now alert you when a suggestion can’t be applied.

Accessibility improvements

Accessibility continues to be core to the GitHub experience. Over the upcoming changelogs we’ll be highlighting improvements to our accessibility experience.

• User operating system specific hints on keyboard shortcuts are enabled
• A missing checkbox label on commit dialog has been added
• Screen reader feedback on suggestions are now applied

Bug fixes

• Copilot Workspace now informs users if a file is too large to be viewed
• Changing files is enabled when focusing on a suggestion
• Suggestions that would be applied to files you have removed are now deleted

Providing Feedback

Please give feedback in our GitHub Discussion. We appreciate any and all feedback you have!