GitHub Copilot in the CLI brings AI assistance to your terminal — explaining commands, suggesting fixes, and generating shell scripts.

Key Commands

• gh copilot suggest — suggest a shell command from natural language
• gh copilot explain — explain a shell command

Examples

• "Find all files larger than 100MB" → Copilot generates the find command
• "How do I undo the last git commit without losing changes?"
• "Write a bash script to backup this directory daily"

Reference:

Copilot CLI documentation

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/github-copilot-in-the-cli