Copilot App For Beginners — Git skill for Claude Code


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🎯 [What You'll Learn](#what-youll-learn)   👥 [Target Audience](#target-audience)   🤖 [Copilot Family](#understanding-the-github-copilot-family)   📚 [Course Structure](#course-structure)

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners

Learn to direct and orchestrate AI coding agents from a single desktop app.

Think of the GitHub Copilot app as a desktop cockpit for agentic coding work. Here, *agentic* means AI agents can plan and take actions for you, while you still supervise what they do. The app brings together sessions, plans, diffs, tests, browser previews, AI chats, issues, pull requests, and more so you can guide that work without bouncing between multiple tools.

This course treats the app as a place to guide and review work, not a magic code button. You'll practice choosing context, picking a session mode, checking evidence, and deciding when automation is appropriate to use.


🎯 What You'll Learn

By the end of the course, you'll be able to:

• Install, sign in and set up the GitHub Copilot app
• Start sessions from prompts, issues, and pull requests
• Explain Interactive, Plan, and Autopilot modes
• Use worktree-backed sessions without colliding with your main branch
• Attach and manage agent context
• Review diffs, run tests, preview a web app, and validate changes
• Use My work view for issues, PRs, review comments, and failing checks
• Understand where settings, instructions, skills,