At Microsoft’s latest developer conference, Build 2024, GitHub’s Copilot took the spotlight with the introduction of Copilot Extensions, designed to unlock even more productivity for developers.
The coding platform’s generative AI solution, Copilot, now works with third-party services through several integrations, allowing developers to tap into even more resources to improve their workflows through natural language prompts.
At launch, DataStax, Docker, Lambda Test, LaunchDarkly, McKinsey & Company, Octopus Deploy, Pangea, Pinecone, Product Science, ReadMe, Sentry, and Teams Toolkit will all be available as extensions via the GitHub Marketplace, with more to come .
GitHub Copilot now supports extensions
The Microsoft platform’s support for third-party integrations now helps developers stay in the same window and take advantage of improved context, which could mean a serious productivity boost for those who can take advantage of the integrations.
In addition to accessing third-party services, users can also create their own private extensions to internal systems and APIs.
At the supporting one blog postSVP of Product at GitHub, Mario Rodriguez, added: “Our goal: to make GitHub Copilot the most integrated, powerful, intelligent AI platform available – with limitless possibilities to accelerate human progress.”
Rodriguez added that “developers can stay in the flow longer, improve their skills, and innovate faster,” all from the familiar IDE or GitHub.com.
Copilot extensions will be available in the Copilot Chat popup, but the limited access beta is available by invitation only.
Rodriguez described the announcement as a “sneak peek of things to come,” citing support for extensions from Stripe, MongoDB and Microsoft on Visual Studio Marketplace for VSCode “in the coming weeks.”