🚀 Now available: Copilot Spaces — A new way to work with context

[Akash1134]

Ever wish Copilot understood your project as well as your teammates do? Now it can.

With Copilot Spaces, you can bring together the context Copilot needs (e.g. files, pull requests, issues, repos) into "Spaces". The result? Copilot gives you responses that are grounded in the right context for a specific task.

Create a space

• Organize code, files, pull requests, issues and other project context into a space.
• Add custom instructions to help guide responses.
• We’ve made some adjustments to how Copilot works with context in Spaces, so context groundedness should be very high.
• Context is always based on the latest state of your main branch.
• Files and repositories added to a space are always kept up to date as they change, making Copilot an evergreen expert in your project.

Chat with a space

• Ask Copilot questions grounded in the context of your Space for more accurate and relevant answers.

Share it with teammates

• You can share spaces with other members of your organization.

Spaces in the IDE

• Access your Space context directly from supported IDEs through the remote GitHub MCP Server.

📂 Do more with Spaces and use it to:

• Generate code
• Share knowledge
• Plan projects

Some of our favorite use cases ⭐

Answering questions about code: Chris Westra is an engineer on the Spaces team. He grouped all of the code associated with Spaces and added video transcripts from a recorded Spaces session. We use this Space to answer questions about how Spaces works under-the-hood (very meta). 🙂

Standardizing coding standards and best practices: Rahul Zhade works on a team that advises engineers on secure coding practices. He often answers the same questions over-and-over again in Slack, so he set up a Space. It contains the documentation for our standard auth model, how to do cryptography as well as instructions on how to go through the security review process.

Writing SQL/KQL queries: Kelly Henckel is a product manager who is very good at writing SQL and KQL queries. She’s created spaces designed to help people self-service writing data queries and creating dashboards. These helpers contain the code for our telemetry schemas as well as example queries.

Updating documentation: Holly Kassel is a product manager working on billing and licensing. She’s been updating GitHub’s documentation to be more user-friendly based on questions arriving through our customer support channels and discussion posts. She creates spaces for each new batch of documentation which needs to be updated, links the existing code and documentation hosted in GitHub, and adds instructions and frequently asked questions as context. The space generates updated versions of the documentation which can be easily copied into our docs repo.

Please share feedback with us 🤝

We appreciate your feedback. Give Spaces a try and let us know what you think either in this discussion post or through the inline feedback button.

🚀 Try Spaces now

• Learn more about Spaces:
  • Changelog
  • Documentation
  • Microsoft Learn module - Introduction to Spaces
  • GitHub Skills exercise

[echapmanFromBunnings]

Are GitHub pages on the roadmap to be indexable?

[chalkygames123]

I love this feature. Is there any plan to relax the space size limit in any way? For example, adding documentation for popular frameworks or libraries as sources often exceeds the limit, resulting in blocking the valid use case.

[dom54]

Does the GitHub Coding agent use spaces for additional context ? How about copilot reviews ?