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in the CLI?

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We’ve seen by investigating policy,

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it’s one of the places

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where we can interact with the service.

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In this case, it’s in your terminal. Isn’t that great?

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And that’s your terminal no matter which one you use,

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whether it’s a Mac terminal or Linux terminal

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or Windows terminal.

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As of this recording in spring 2025,

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the only supported language is English, unfortunately.

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The primary commands that this tool helps with

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are GitHub CLI commands, the GHCLI

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that I hope you’re familiar with.
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You have to be familiar with the GitHub CLI

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in order to be successful

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on not only the GitHub Copilot exam,

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but also the other four GitHub exams as well.

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The Git CLI, everybody’s favorite,

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and then Standard Shell like Bash or zShell.

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And I found that it’s okay with PowerShell,

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you can test different shells

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in scripting languages to see.

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There’s an option to choose a general CLI command.

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The 80% use cases here are to find the right command

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to perform a task in the moment.

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We’re not talking about you building

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an administrative script that’ll persist in a repo,

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we’re talking about when you’re live at a terminal.

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And also, just the opposite.

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You get an unfamiliar command from Stack Overflow.

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You take an extra moment,

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"Hey, can you explain what this means?"

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That’s particularly good for a gnarly regular expression.

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How do we get started with this Copilot in the CLI?

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Well, you need your license, right?

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In terms of your dev box, you have

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to have the GitHub CLI installed.

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You have to sign in, get your token.

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And from there, you can run gh extension install

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to pass in the repo owner for GitHub Copilot,

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which is gitHub/gh-copilot.

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And then you can verify with gh copilot --help.

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Standard stuff, right?

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Troubleshooting, main thing I’ve found is gh auth login,

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gh auth status.

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Make sure that your token is current.

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Also, the extension is regularly revised, so make sure

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that you’re updating your GitHub CLI extensions

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with gh extension upgrade.

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I’m going to do a deep demo on this,

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so I don’t want to belabor the PowerPoint.

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Let me bring out my whiteboarding tools though

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for just a second.

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I’m in Windows terminal here, and I’m using gh.
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Gh is the GitHub CLI,

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and it’s a non-interactive command language.

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You start with gh and then you have your context.

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There’s a whole bunch of different contexts

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for pull requests, projects, packages, you name it.

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Copilot is the one that we have with this extension,

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and there’s two main commands: explain and suggest.

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Here, I’m asking the AI to explain a git rebase command.

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Comes back from the AI, and then we can go from there.

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Meant to be easy in easy out.

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Note that this is very different from our Copilot experience

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in the IDE or in the GitHub web interface.

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This is much, much different indeed.

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I love this prompt. Check this out.
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Let me bring my whiteboarding tool out again,

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Gh copilot suggests create a Git log command

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that displays a graph of the commit history

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with a colorblind-friendly format.

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Isn’t that cool? I love that.

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This is an opportunity for you to use your prompting skills

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to really get custom-fitted responses from the AI.

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It’s really great.