New Update GitHub Copilot Extensions for Developers

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Introducing GitHub Copilot Extensions: Unlocking unlimited possibilities with our ecosystem of partners

The world of Copilot is getting bigger, improving the developer experience by keeping developers in the flow longer and allowing them to do more in natural language.

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How it works: GitHub Copilot Extensions in action​

Imagine you’re a developer who just got paged on an incident for a database-related error. You’re trying to get context of the issue from a variety of tools. It could be from a GitHub issue or audit logs in DataStax. With enough context, you start troubleshooting what could be the cause, going to tools like Sentry for error monitoring to learn more. Then, you have to figure out a solution, apply the fix, and then deploy with Azure. In this scenario, there is a lot of context-switching.

Copilot Extensions bring this whole process together. From GitHub Copilot Chat, you can now easily invoke all of these tools to get context, perform actions, and generate files and pull requests—accelerating workflows across more tools.

 

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GitHub Copilot Extensions aim to streamline developers' workflows by reducing context-switching. They allow developers to easily invoke various tools for context, actions, and file generation directly from GitHub Copilot Chat, thus enhancing productivity.