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The GitHub Copilot Handbook
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The GitHub Copilot Handbook

by Rob Bos, Randy Pagels
November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
290 pages
6h 47m
English
Packt Publishing
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Part 3

Exploring GitHub Copilot Integrations

Outside of all the features integrated in the editor, there are a lot of extension points with other systems as well. GitHub shows its industry strengths with its platform, which handles all different software development lifecycle steps in a single integrated platform, layering GitHub Copilot functionality on top of it: you can start a conversation with the AI right from github.com, create an issue with all the context you need to define the changes that you want to have implemented, and then hand that off to the Coding Agent to create the pull request and changes for you. Even better: for incoming PRs, GitHub Copilot can already do the first PR review for you!

As well as those features integrated ...

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