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Cookbook Overview

Welcome to the GitHub Copilot Cookbook! This collection provides practical, copy-paste-ready recipes and real-world examples to help you build with GitHub Copilot tools and features.

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What’s in the Cookbook

The cookbook is organized by tool and programming language, with each recipe focused on solving specific, common tasks:

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GitHub Copilot SDK

Ready-to-use recipes for building applications with the GitHub Copilot SDK across multiple languages:

C# SDK

Build Copilot applications with .NET and C#

Go SDK

Build Copilot applications with Go

Node.js SDK

Build Copilot applications with TypeScript/JavaScript

Python SDK

Build Copilot applications with Python

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Customization Examples

Learn how to extend and customize GitHub Copilot for your workflows:

Custom Agents

Create specialized agents for specific tasks

Custom Instructions

Define coding standards and guidelines

Custom Skills

Build reusable skills with bundled resources

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How to Use These Recipes

Each recipe follows a consistent structure to help you quickly find and use the code you need:
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Browse by Tool or Language

Navigate to the SDK language or customization type that matches your needs
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Find Your Use Case

Each page contains multiple recipes organized by common scenarios
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Copy the Code

All code examples are production-ready and can be copied directly into your project
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Run and Test

Follow the setup instructions to run the examples in your environment

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Recipe Categories

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SDK Recipes

The SDK recipes cover fundamental patterns for building with the GitHub Copilot SDK:
  • Error Handling - Gracefully handle connection failures, timeouts, and cleanup
  • Session Management - Create, manage, and persist conversation sessions
  • File Operations - Work with local files and AI-powered organization
  • Advanced Patterns - Ralph loops, PR visualization, accessibility reports

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Customization Recipes

The customization recipes show you how to tailor GitHub Copilot to your specific needs:
  • Custom Agents - Specialized AI agents with targeted expertise
  • Custom Instructions - Coding standards applied to file patterns
  • Custom Skills - Bundled instructions with reusable resources
All recipes in this cookbook use real code from the Awesome GitHub Copilot repository. These are tested, working examples used by the community.

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Getting Started

New to the GitHub Copilot SDK? Start with the Error Handling recipe in your preferred language to learn the basics of creating clients, sessions, and sending messages.
Pick a recipe category below to get started:

Start with SDK Recipes

Learn SDK fundamentals with Node.js/TypeScript examples

Explore Customization

Create your first custom agent

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Resources

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Official Documentation

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External Cookbooks

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Contributing

Have a recipe to share? The Awesome GitHub Copilot repository welcomes contributions! See the Contributing Guide for guidelines.

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