What Pro is
The 100 lessons across 8clusters explain how GitHub Copilot behaves and why. That is the part that should be free, and it is. What the Academy deliberately does not do is hand you a finished artefact — an instruction file tuned for a Terraform repository, an agent definition scoped so it cannot do damage, a set of MCP configurations with the credential scoping already thought through.
Pro is those artefacts. It is aimed at the reader who has understood the lesson and now has to ship something at work by Friday.
What is in it
Everything in this list is written and downloadable today.
Instruction-file library
Ready-to-commit .github/copilot-instructions.md files for six stacks — Python services, TypeScript/Node, Go, React frontends, Terraform and Kubernetes. Each states the non-obvious rules that actually change what a suggestion looks like, with the reasoning kept as comments so you can tell which lines to keep.
Companion project repositories, packaged
All twelve companion projects in one archive — the Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Actions, CLI, instructions, agents, MCP, AI-CI/CD, code-review-corpus and permission-matrix projects — with their instruction files and tests, ready to copy into a work repository rather than cloned one at a time.
Being written
Listed separately, and deliberately, because a benefit list that mixes what exists with what is planned is a list that reads as bigger than the product. These are in progress and included when they land, at no extra cost.
Custom agent definitionsIn progress
Scoped agent definitions for review, testing, dependency triage and migration safety, each with an explicit permission set and an explicit list of what it must not touch.
MCP configuration packIn progress
Working MCP configurations with the credential scoping worked through, plus the review notes explaining which tools each server exposes and which of them can write.
Monthly Copilot changes reportIn progress
The month's changes to Copilot compiled into one document — what moved between plans, which models arrived or retired, and which of our templates and datasets changed as a result.
Advanced labsIn progress
Longer builds that go past the free labs: a multi-repository agent workflow, an MCP server written from scratch, and a CI pipeline that uses Copilot review as a gate.
Price
Annual works out 3 months cheaper than paying monthly.
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What Pro is not
- It is not access to the Academy. That is free, and paywalling it later would be a bait-and-switch on every reader who arrived before the change.
- It is not a certification. Nothing on this site is. GitHub issues certifications; we do not, and the milestones the Academy records say so wherever they appear.
- It is not support. There is no SLA, no response time, and no promise that a question gets answered. If you need that, you need a consultant rather than a subscription.
- It is not the Enterprise Toolkit. That is a separate one-off product for organisations rolling Copilot out — see it here.
Questions people reasonably ask
Will the free lessons stay free?
Yes. It is stated at the top of this page, on the about page, and it is the reason the site gets read at all. A hundred lessons behind a paywall would be worth less than a hundred lessons that people link to.
What happens when Copilot changes?
The templates are revised, and the changelog says what moved. That is most of what you are paying for: the site already tracks what GitHub changes and re-verifies the datasets, and Pro is where that work turns into an updated file rather than a note.
Can I use the templates at work?
Yes — inside the organisation you work for, including in internal documentation. You may not redistribute them or resell them as templates. Full terms come with the download.
Do I need an account?
For Pro, yes: sign in with an email link first, so the purchase attaches to an account you can get back into. For the Academy, no — progress is stored in your browser and an account only exists if you ask for one. See what is stored.
Refunds?
Write within 14 days and you get one, without a conversation about why. A subscription that requires an argument to leave is a subscription that should not have been sold.