Prerequisites

• Access to GitHub Copilot. See What is GitHub Copilot?.
• Windows Terminal Canary installed. For installation instructions, see Installing Windows Terminal Canary.
• GitHub Copilot connected to Terminal Chat. See Quickstart for GitHub Copilot.

If you have access to GitHub Copilot via your organization or enterprise, you cannot use Copilot in Windows Terminal if your organization owner or enterprise administrator has disabled Copilot in the CLI. See Managing policies and features for Copilot in your organization.

Getting command explanations and suggestions

In the Terminal Chat chat window, type a question (for example, how do i list all markdown files in my directory) then press Enter.

Copilot's answer is displayed below your question.

Click on an answer to insert it to the command line.

Sharing feedback

To send feedback to Windows Terminal about the quality of a suggestion, open an issue in the Windows Terminal repository.

Further reading

• Terminal Chat in the Microsoft Learn documentation