GitHub Copilot CLI is a harness to interact with AI directly from your terminal. By default, it uses the models provided through your GitHub Copilot subscription, but did you know you can bring your own key and connect to an external provider? I have an OpenCode Go subscription to use the Chinese models such as … Continue reading Use OpenCode Go models in GitHub Copilot CLI with BYOK
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Agent Skills for Azure Bicep with GitHub Copilot: From Manual Work to Automated Workflows
Agent Skills can have a significant impact on your workflow when using AI agents, as they are well suited for reusable tasks. In this blog post, you will learn what Agent Skills are, how to create them, and how to use them in GitHub Copilot. I will also share four Agent Skills that I use … Continue reading Agent Skills for Azure Bicep with GitHub Copilot: From Manual Work to Automated Workflows
Experiment, Prototype, and Validate Azure Bicep with the Bicep Console
The Bicep console is a feature that helps with prototyping, experimenting, and validating Azure Bicep code snippets. Additionally, you can leverage the Bicep console to validate user-defined functions that are generated with GitHub Copilot to check if the output is as expected. In this blog, you will learn what the Bicep console is, explore a … Continue reading Experiment, Prototype, and Validate Azure Bicep with the Bicep Console
Custom Azure Bicep chat modes for GitHub Copilot
In GitHub Copilot, you have three built-in chat modes: Ask, Edit, and Agent. With a custom chat mode, you can create your own mode by extending the agent with your own behaviour. For example, you can add behaviour so the agent acts as a coding planner, prompt optimiser, or PowerShell expert, etc. In this blog, … Continue reading Custom Azure Bicep chat modes for GitHub Copilot
From Prompt to Bicep: GitHub Copilot for Azure in Action
Over two years ago, I wrote about GitHub Copilot for the first time. Back then, it was powered by OpenAI Codex models, not the models we know today. GitHub Copilot has come a long way since then, where we now have frontier models such as GPT-4.1 and Sonnet 4, agent mode, extensions, and GitHub Copilot … Continue reading From Prompt to Bicep: GitHub Copilot for Azure in Action




