From the course: Supercharge the Development Process with GitHub Extensions for Copilot Chat

Extending GitHub Copilot Chat

- One of the standout products for developers in artificial intelligence has been GitHub Copilot. In a recent survey, 76% of programmers reported using or planning to use AI tools in development. However, so far, copilot has been limited to functionality GitHub has programmed internally, but now Copilot allows third parties to expand its capabilities through an extension system. With Copilot extensions, you can build apps that take advantage of connections to other tools, models and data. It gives extensions access to your chat history, a large language model that lets you ask more generic programming questions, and also the ability to execute third party functions for added capabilities. Although it's a new product, you can already find tools from companies like Docker, LaunchDarkly, and of course you can also build your own. So if you're enjoying the productivity behind GitHub Copilot, it's time to take it to the next level with extensions. Let's do this.

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