Welcome to the technical preview for Copilot Workspace (CW)! 👋 CW is a "task-centric" dev environment, which allows you to define a task for a repo (using natural language), and then work on it with AI. And to get started, you can define or begin a task using one of the following entrypoints:
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GitHub Issue If you've already got a GitHub issue which describes a task you'd like to perform, then you can simply open the issue and click the "Open in Workspace" button on the right side panel (underneath the "Development" section). This will open the issue within Copilot Workspace, and begin analyzing how to solve it. |
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Ad-hoc task (CW dashboard) If you open the Copilot Workspace dashboard, you can click the "Choose a repository" option underneath the "Start a new session" section. This will let you search for the repository you want to work on, and after selecting it, will allow you to define a new task from scratch (kind of like a draft issue). And after you've performed a task against a repository, it will appear in the session list under the "Start a new session" section on the dashboard. That way, you can easily start new tasks against projects you're actively working on. |
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Ad-hoc task (repo page) As an alternative to the previous entrypoint, you can also navigate to the repository page for the project you'd like to work on, click the green "Code" button, and enter in a new task from the "Copilot" tab. Once you submit the task, it will take you into Copilot Workspace and begin analyzing how to solve it. |
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