Ask Copilot for a repository overview
Quick Answer
GitHub Copilot now provides high-level overviews of repositories for first-time visitors, summarizing their purpose, technologies, and contribution guidelines.
Quick Take
GitHub Copilot now provides high-level overviews of repositories for first-time visitors, summarizing their purpose, technologies, and contribution guidelines. Users can request an overview directly from the repository page or through Copilot Chat, which can also generate a README if one is missing. This feature is available to all GitHub Copilot plans.
Key Points
- Copilot generates repository overviews for first-time visitors on GitHub.
- Summaries include purpose, technologies used, and contribution guidelines.
- Users can request overviews via the Copilot icon or Copilot Chat.
- Copilot can create a README if the repository lacks one.
- Available to all GitHub Copilot subscription plans.
📖 Reader Mode
~1 min readYou can now ask GitHub Copilot for a high-level overview of any repository you’re exploring for the first time. When you visit the home page of a repository you haven’t contributed to before on github.com, Copilot offers to generate an overview for you.
Select Give me a high-level overview, and Copilot Chat gathers context from the repository and returns a summary of the repository’s purpose, the technologies it uses, and its contribution guidelines.
If a repository doesn’t already have a README, Copilot can generate one for you so you can get up to speed on what the repository does and which technologies it uses.
You can access this anytime by selecting the Copilot icon in the github.com navigation bar or by asking Copilot Chat to generate a repository overview.
This feature is available to all GitHub Copilot plans.
— Originally published at github.blog
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