The Copilot StackTechnical Academy

The Copilot Stack

GitHub Copilot Academy

Your path from Copilot beginner to agentic software engineer.

Clusters
8
Available now
1
Lessons published
13
Lessons planned
100

Curriculum roadmap

Eight levels, taken in order

Only Cluster 1 is published. The remaining clusters are shown so you can see where the curriculum is going — they deliberately have no placeholder lesson pages.

  1. Level 1Available

    GitHub Copilot Fundamentals

    Everything a developer needs before using Copilot seriously: what it is, how to install it, how completions and chat work, what agent mode does, which plan to buy, and how to review what it writes.

    13 lessonsBeginner

    0 of 13 complete
    Open Cluster 1
  2. Level 2Coming soon

    Copilot IDE & Developer Workflow

    Editor-level mastery: workspace context, edit mode, checkpoints, workspace indexing, next edit suggestions, and integrating Copilot into an existing day-to-day workflow.

    12 lessonsBeginner → Intermediate

  3. Level 3Coming soon

    Copilot Programming Languages

    Language-specific technique for Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go, Java, C#, Rust, SQL and shell — including where Copilot's suggestions systematically need correction.

    13 lessonsIntermediate

  4. Level 4Coming soon

    Copilot for DevOps & Infrastructure

    Dockerfiles, Compose, Kubernetes manifests, Helm, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions and incident workflows — with the review discipline infrastructure code demands.

    13 lessonsIntermediate

  5. Level 5Coming soon

    GitHub Copilot CLI

    The terminal agent in depth: sessions, permissions and sandboxing, plan and autopilot modes, worktrees, delegation, programmatic use and CI integration.

    12 lessonsIntermediate

  6. Level 6Coming soon

    Prompting, Models & Customization

    Prompt engineering for code, model selection and trade-offs, custom instructions, prompt files, agent skills and AI credit economics.

    12 lessonsIntermediate → Advanced

  7. Level 7Coming soon

    Copilot Agents, MCP & Agentic Development

    The cloud agent, custom agents, subagents, MCP servers and tools, third-party agents, and designing multi-step autonomous workflows you can actually trust.

    13 lessonsAdvanced

  8. Level 8Coming soon

    Copilot Security, Code Review & Enterprise

    Copilot code review, content exclusion, secret handling, policy management, audit logs, data residency and rolling Copilot out across an engineering organisation.

    12 lessonsAdvanced

End of the pathAgentic Software Engineer

Someone who can scope work for an agent, supervise it, review what it produces, and know which parts of the job should not be delegated at all.