Look it up fast
References
10 pages built for lookup rather than reading start to finish. Tables first, prose second.
- Quick referenceGitHub Copilot Keyboard Shortcuts Cheat SheetEvery documented default shortcut for VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode across macOS, Windows and Linux — printable.
- Reference50 GitHub Copilot Commands, Actions, and Developer WorkflowsFifty entries, each labelled as an official command, CLI command, prompt or workflow — so you never mistake a natural-language prompt for real syntax.
- Commercial comparisonGitHub Copilot Free vs Student vs Pro vs Pro+ vs Max vs Business vs EnterpriseFree, Student, Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise compared on price, AI credits, model access, agents and governance.
- Idea discovery50 Things You Can Do with GitHub CopilotFifty concrete jobs across writing code, comprehension, debugging, testing, docs, Git, DevOps, containers, IaC, CI/CD, security, SQL, review and agents.
- Broad IDE comparison / pillarGitHub Copilot for IDEs: Complete GuideEvery Copilot feature compared across VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains, Eclipse and Xcode, with the differences that should actually influence which editor you use.
- Team prompt library organisationBuild a Reusable GitHub Copilot Prompt LibraryTurning one-off prompts into a reviewed, version-controlled team resource — and why six good prompt files beat sixty.
- Current model comparison matrixGitHub Copilot Model Comparison for CodingThe current inventory as a factual matrix — providers, status, task grouping and retirement — with no invented benchmark scores.
- Command and flag referenceGitHub Copilot CLI Commands Cheat SheetEvery slash command, flag and subcommand verified against a real installation, grouped by what it can do to your machine rather than by alphabet.
- Broad agent ecosystem pillarGitHub Copilot Agents: Complete GuideFive agent surfaces with genuinely different capabilities, the autonomy scale that makes them comparable, and why an agent that can act needs a different trust model.
- MCP architecture pillarGitHub Copilot MCP: Complete GuideModel Context Protocol as Copilot implements it: clients, servers, tools versus resources, transports, authentication, and the security model that matters most.
The answer file
GitHub Copilot answers — the most-asked questions about pricing, AI credits, instruction files, agents and code review, each answered in about fifty words with its primary source and the date a person checked it. Written to be copied into a reply, not read start to finish.