CONNECTED THINKING
Knowledge atlas
Follow people, viewpoints and their original evidence.
1 people · 1 sources · 1 viewpoints
IN CONTEXT
AI tool onboarding
Choose a viewpoint. Follow it back to the conversation.
Provide codebase context before prompting
Equal sectors are reading positions, not rankings.
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Selected viewpoint
Provide codebase context before prompting
Before asking Copilot to make a change, connect it to a GitHub repository or local folder so it can access the relevant code and files.
These are individual perspectives, not a measure of consensus. Source material stays in its original language.
Supporting evidence
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Write your first prompt
Original excerpt
Before you can ask Copilot to make a change, it needs something to work on. Agent sessions can be connected to a GitHub repository or a folder on your local machine, giving Copilot access to the code and files it needs for the task.
Publication dates describe the sources, not changes in belief.