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2025
GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview. GitHub now have their own entry in the coding terminal CLI agent space: Copilot CLI.
It's the same basic shape as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and a growing number of other tools in this space. It's a terminal UI which you accepts instructions and can modify files, run commands and integrate with GitHub's MCP server and other MCP servers that you configure.
Two notable features compared to many of the others:
- It works against the GitHub Models backend. It defaults to Claude Sonnet 4 but you can set
COPILOT_MODEL=gpt-5to switch to GPT-5. Presumably other models will become available soon. - It's billed against your existing GitHub Copilot account. Pricing details are here - they're split into "Agent mode" requests and "Premium" requests. Different plans get different allowances, which are shared with other products in the GitHub Copilot family.
The best available documentation right now is the copilot --help screen - here's a copy of that in a Gist.
It's a competent entry into the market, though it's missing features like the ability to paste in images which have been introduced to Claude Code and Codex CLI over the past few months.
Disclosure: I got a preview of this at an event at Microsoft's offices in Seattle last week. They did not pay me for my time but they did cover my flight, hotel and some dinners.
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to OpenAI's headquarters for a "preview event", for which I had to sign both an NDA and a video release waiver. I suspected it might relate to either GPT-5 or the OpenAI open weight models... and GPT-5 it was!
OpenAI had invited five developers: Claire Vo, Theo Browne, Ben Hylak, Shawn @swyx Wang, and myself. We were all given early access to the new models and asked to spend a couple of hours (of paid time, see my disclosures) experimenting with them, while being filmed by a professional camera crew.
The resulting video is now up on YouTube. Unsurprisingly most of my edits related to SVGs of pelicans.