


If you haven’t received the welcome email yet, you’ll probably see something like this until you do receive it.

VSCode will prompt you to authorize the extension by signing into GitHub.ĭo this. I assume this is how the early access list is managed, based on your GitHub account having been granted that access. That’s because you have to authorize the extension via GitHub. As I jumped over to VSCode and installed it I wondered, “Couldn’t anyone do this? Why had I been waiting? You may have noticed that there is a public extension available in the VSCode marketplace. How To Install GitHub Copilot in VSCode?įirst, if you haven’t done so or haven’t gotten access already, you have to join the waitlist and wait for access as it’s still in the “technical preview” phase. In case you didn’t know already, GitHub Copilot is what they are calling an AI Pair Programmer that assists developers by suggesting line completions, providing solutions for functions simply by supplying it with a function name or comment, and has been trained on billions of lines of code. In fact, it’s doing a great job of suggesting sentence completions for me as I type.

