GitHub Copilot SDK

Collaborating skills

• AI Engineering: skill: ai-engineering for broader agentic system design patterns
• Prompt Engineering: skill: prompt-engineering for crafting effective agent prompts and tool descriptions

Embed Copilot's agentic workflows in any application using Python, TypeScript, Go, or .NET.

Overview

The GitHub Copilot SDK exposes the same engine behind Copilot CLI: a production-tested agent runtime you can invoke programmatically. No need to build your own orchestration - you define agent behavior, Copilot handles planning, tool invocation, file edits, and more.

GitHub Copilot SDK repository

• https://github.com/github/copilot-sdk

Documentation