Copilot Workspace Feedback

[ThisIsKirsch]

Looking for Product Feedback

The wait is over! 🎉 We’re thrilled to share that the technical preview of GitHub Copilot Workspace is now available to all paying Copilot customers. 🚀

We've loved all the feedback given to use during the technical preview and pubic preview, and we're thrilled to be getting such amazing feedback from you. Previously we were collecting feedback on Discord. Moving forward we'll be using this discussions post as the one-stop shop for all user feedback!

If you have any feedback, bugs to report, or comments in general regarding Copilot Workspace please leave it here!

[ykundesu]

I am using VisualStudio.
Currently only supported in VSCode and browser, will it be supported in VisualStudio in the future?

[Raushang4]

> How can I use GitHub Copilot features effectively if I primarily work in Visual Studio?

Multi-line Suggestions: Press Ctrl + Enter (Windows) or Cmd + Enter (Mac)
Best Practices for Effective Use

Break Down Tasks: Use comments or short code snippets to guide Copilot’s focus.
Review Suggestions: Always review the AI-generated code for correctness, security, and adherence to your project’s coding standards.
Combine with IntelliSense: Use Visual Studio's native IntelliSense alongside Copilot for an enhanced coding experience.

Tips to Use Copilot Effectively

Leverage Key Shortcuts:
Familiarize yourself with Copilot-specific shortcuts in Visual Studio, such as:

Alt + \ or Ctrl + Space: Manually trigger suggestions.
Ctrl + Enter: Open the panel for alternative or detailed suggestions.
Provide Clear Context:
Copilot generates better suggestions when you:

Write clear, well-structured code.
Add meaningful comments describing what you need.
Combine with IntelliSense:
Use Visual Studio’s IntelliSense alongside Copilot for comprehensive support.

[Julieisbaka]

Its really annoying to use when it just goes back to the github website when you click certain things

[mengeworkman]

I tried to create a simple Python script that prints "Hello World" in the browser version of workspace and I get a blank screen.

[prabhank]

I too had seen "This site can't be reached" for a while, after 5 minutes it started working.

[arafat-fullstackdev]

Try these fixes:

Check Internet – Ensure stable connection.
Disable VPN/Proxy – Might be blocking access.
Check Firewall/Antivirus – Temporarily disable and retry.
Try Another Browser – Chrome, Firefox, or Edge.
Use Incognito Mode – Avoid extension conflicts.
Flush DNS Cache – Run ipconfig /flushdns (Windows) or sudo dscacheutil -flushcache (Mac).
Switch Network – Try another Wi-Fi or mobile data.

If still not working, test on another device. 🚀

[beingminimal]

@ThisIsKirsch When we are going to have a model selection in CW? any ETA?

[skylar-anderson]

@beingminimal Making CW multi-model is a top priority for us. Stay tuned 👀

[beingminimal]

@beingminimal Making CW multi-model is a top priority for us. Stay tuned 👀

ok thanks.

[PierrunoYT]

Would love to get Higher Rate Limits

[derKosi]

+1

replacing Random with RandomNumberGenerator.Create() (in C#, yeah i know) and putting it in its own service and changing 35 files was to much for the rate limit. So Sad.

I even would throw my own ressources (azure) against it or setup a local env (ollama + api key) to properly test this.
It seems to be able to generate solutions for Issues generated by sonarqube and such, and I would like to compare this against Devin for example.

[Ali-Razmjoo]

I couldn't finish brainstorming on an issue and faced a rate limit (yesterday and today). I didn't even get to the coding today; that's challenging for me to try this feature again while it's forcing me to wait one hour.

Error generating answer to question: You have exceeded your usage quota per hour. Copilot Workspace is a limited preview and we'd like everyone to have a chance to try it out. Please try again later. If you hit this condition regularly, please contact us via the feedback links.

[ciresnave]

+1. I hit my hourly quota limit twice today and then hit my daily quota limit. Mind you, I was working to have Copilot Workspace help me flesh out a somewhat complex project...but I'm still hoping they raise the quotas soon.

[rotev]

Hello from Workspace 👋 Sorry for the late reply.

For somewhat large repos, we've seen frequent quota limits being hit. We're actively working on optimizations for these cases.

As for quotas being exceeded due to frequent usage, this is a common request from the community. I've passed it along to our product team.

[benny-yamagata]

I literally asked for one change to my repo across 7 files... hit my hourly quota after the initial code generation. This is not great.

[wmeints]

I find that reordering files in the plan is difficult when you have a large list of files. I would love to be able to have some form of dedicated function to reorder files in the plan.

[dylanatsmith]

@wmeints Can you tell us more about why you reorder files and what order you put them in?

For example, are you grouping files and their tests, grouping all files together and all tests together, etc?

[wmeints]

I noticed that sometimes copilot workspace has the order reversed and produces the wrong result. For example, when the test file is generated before the implementation, the implementation generated is a lot worse. Now when I reorder the files, the results are better.

In most cases the order of the files is correct, however, when you start to iterate in the session using brainstorming or by typing revisions, new files are added at the end of the list that need to be at the top or somewhere in the middle. By then the list is getting pretty long so it becomes harder to reorder the files.

[dylanatsmith]

That’s helpful context, thanks @wmeints. We’ll look into this.

[beingminimal]

@ThisIsKirsch Does CW going to support custom Ai agents? like in case if we want to run ai agents we have built with langgraph in CW then is it going to be supported?

[beingminimal]

@ThisIsKirsch CW will have canvas like GPT4o-canvas to iterate?

[MarzLars]

Hi,
I've been playing around for some hours and I noticed that doing multiple revisions of one ''task-session''--not sure how to name it--will essentially make co-pilot behave a bit weirdly and not complete some of the instructed tasks. My fix for this has so far been to start new task sessions and make brainstorms etc. for the current features I want to improve--and begin new separate task sessions if I want some new features for my application.

From my understanding it seems to be intended to start a new "Task" in your workspace when copilot has completed what was initially prompted. Hence, I think it would be nice with some UI that promotes this workflow. See example images below

Current UI:

My suggestion would be to include a button at the bottom of the side bar, which makes it possible to start new Tasks, straight from the sidebar, when copilot has implemented the initial task prompt:

Suggested UI-draft:

***When button is clicked, you get prompted to go to a new task page and start the process again, or something along those lines. ***

But I really love it so far! Kudos!

[six7]

@MarzLars would you say you always want to be in control of when to start a new task like depicted? How would you feel if CW automatically started new tasks (as follow-ups to the original with proper UI affordances) if it thinks your request doesnt fit into the current?

[MarzLars]

@six7 I will mostly want to always be in control, but it would be nice if CW comes with a pop-up or notifaction if it notices the request diverges too much--you get the option to put that request into a new task or keep going with your current session. 😛

[lehotskysamuel]

Any plans to integrate CW with pycharm / jetbrains IDEs?

[skylar-anderson]

No specific plans as of yet, but additional IDE support is something we are considering.

[Mistic92]

Should be higher priority

[grandell1234]

I would appreciate if the Command part, has knowledge of the actual scripts, so you can have it install the necessary dependencies without having to specify them one-by-one.

[SkywardSyntax]

Hey, I was wondering if CW will still be receiving weekly updates while in public preview?

[skylar-anderson]

We will continue shipping updates to CW as we build towards public preview :) Expect changelogs to land every 2 weeks.

[bripkens]

Something we frequently do is to have tasks like "Implement a new thing X that is similar to Y. To figure out what to do, search for usages of Y.". So far it seems like CoPilot workspace cannot understand this. Especially not within a monorepo. Example of where one would do this:

• plugin systems: Spinning up a new plugin (requiring new files/directories/constant files/registrations etc. – lots of boilerplate)
• adding additional telemetry: Define a new metric that is similar to an already existing one.

[skylar-anderson]

Have you tried using Brainstorming to extract a description of current system behaviors e.g. "similar to Y"? Brainstorming lets you query the current codebase to understand existing behaviors which can then be injected back into the task description in order to inform the plan.

[shadow9130]

Yeah

[pethers]

Hi,

Really enjoyed using the workspace, had some success cleaning up javadoc on my open source project https://github.com/Hack23/cia .

Javadoc improvements Pull request.
Hack23/cia#6751
Hack23/cia#6744
Hack23/cia#6742
Hack23/cia#6740

Works pretty well, result https://hack23.github.io/cia/apidocs/com.hack23.cia.web/module-summary.html better module descriptions was empty before.

Some issues I had.

• Don't find all relevant files to update, seems to only scan small subset of project.
• Regulary hit "You have exceeded your usage quota per hour. " even with first brainstorm off the day.
• The base branch requires all commits to be signed, can the pull request generated be signed ? Issue already exist at Add possibility to generate signed commits githubnext/copilot-workspace-user-manual#65

Would be great if could scan the whole project and detect and modify large set of files better.

Example want to fix "Desc." descriptions in UI since I was lazy when I wrote ot https://copilot-workspace.githubnext.com/Hack23/cia?shareId=f93d776f-206d-4445-bf64-8fae04951c51 . Would be great to fix it everywhere :) Now limited to one package Hack23/cia#6753 or do it for multiple areas.

Like the workflow, easy to learn and great support for generating pull request.

Best regards

[skylar-anderson]

Thanks for sharing @pethers. It's awesome to see your success with CW.

Context selection is a critical piece of CW. We're actively working on some new ideas to improve the way CW selects files for your task.

We're also working to increase capacity as we scale CW towards a public preview so hopefully you aren't hitting quota limits as frequently going forward.

Keep an eye out on our changelog for continued improvements! :)

[gaieges]

Generally a huge fan of the copilot workspace, cant wait to see where it will go. Also can't wait til I'm not rate limited and can use it more extensively!

Some feedback I had while creating:

• The "ideas" concept seems powerful but a bit confusing in how it works - could be a little more intuitive
  • I'd like for IT to ask me clarifying questions to aid the plan and code steps (rather than selecting questions to ask itself)
  • I'd then like to override certain plan steps with an idea in text form and not have to deal with the ui aspects (ie via the input field at the bottom - "make sure that we implement it via X approach")
• I would want some more granularity over "steps" to add to "tasks" from a question. For example in the answer to the question of "how should the ui look", I may want to pull out just "color X" and "rounded edges" from the list of 10 items returned.
• It would be great to be able to do parts of this in the PR, if you detect something wrong after PR generation. Ie make some suggestions as you normally would via comments and have the PR updated automatically from the same contextual LLM (some tools already that do this, but you could do it better)

[skylar-anderson]

Love this feedback. Your points about improving ideas are fantastic. I'll raise these points with the team as we shape the next iterations.

[gaieges]

Glad to hear it!

Another note regarding this feedback approach- it's a bit noisy to get emails about everyone else's input. I'll be muting this thread, so ping me directly if you have any additional questions.

[tc23]

Have you experienced difficulties with the current PR editing workflow?

[davidecelano]

I've been lookin' around in the project repo and site and I wasn't able to find terms regarding what happens with source code in private/internal repos when granting access to Copilot Workspace: I think it's really relevant for businesses to be sure that their private source code is not shared to train models or provide code snippets/suggestions to the whole Github community

[xbito]

I have a bit of feedback / thoughts regarding the UI. For a bit of context, I am a software engineer that haven't used Github that much before, my previous company was using other products for code and project management. So I'm a bit familiar with Github UIs but I am not entirely comfortable yet.

I might not be offering solutions/alternatives, this is more an expression of my thoughts / first impressions while using the tool. This is my fourth session, and I have done relatively small tasks so far. I started the session from my repo using the Code -> Copilot -> Start task flow.

In this first Interaction I have some mixed indications of what I need to do next:

• On the sidebar under "Write" is what I initially entered as Start task which seems to be editable.
• On the main part of the UI I have the Brainstorm section, which has Add item callouts, and a chat with a set of Suggested questions for the Chat.
• And then we have the Generate plan button.

At that point, as a new user that has not read the documentation because I am really confident about my ability to understand a UI, I am a bit confused what I'm supposed to do next.

This is what I feel the UI is telling me: If I click "Generate plan" it is going to use the input I made in Write to re-generate the Brainstorm. But actually what happens if I change the Task is that a new button/section appears at the top of the Brainstorm content to regenerate it, and I still can hit Generate plan without updating the Brainstorm:

It seems like the intention is for Brainstorms to be updated when the Task changes. There's even this "Outdated" indicator in the "Ideas from brainstorm" thing under the Task textbox once I change the Task. But if I click Generate plan thinking that it would update the Brainstorm it seems to proceed with the original Brainstorm instead. I have to click on Brainstorm or on the Outdated label and then click on that other Update button to update the Brainstorm and then update the Plan. But, also, if I update the Brainstorm there is no indication that the Plan is now Outdated, and that I should click on Update plan rather than on Implement selected files.

Now, if click on one of the "Suggested questions", it seems to replace the content from the original Brainstorm. Turns out that the original one still exists under that hamburger button, but there is no indication that that is what is happening. Why not add another tab beside Brainstorm? Or indicate that will open another "page"? But also, what the Chat-like interface is suggesting to me is that this section is more like a chat-gpt experience, where there is a conversation, not an individual document per question/answer. First thing I thought was: It's not clear why aren't the questions I'm asking added to the "Ideas from brainstorming section" which contains the original, automatically added, "How do I solve this task?" (By the way, maybe it should say we, it is copilot and the user brainstorming together right?)

Once I used the questions I saw the answers give you options, like "Where should the avatar be displayed", it gave me a few options, which I can then "+ Add to task" if I agree. Which then adds something to the list of ideas from brainstorming, but also changes the original "How do I solve this task?" page/answer right?. In particular in the Proposed solution section. Why both places?

There also seem to be questions, like the above one, that is not really giving me the option to specifically select which one I want to add to task, it seems to be an all or nothing rather than options like in others. These seem to be 3 ways to attend to the issue expressed by the question that do not need to be all done. And in this case I can't edit instantly, I have to click on the pencil button to enter edit mode, which is not the case with the original "How do I solve this task?" page.

This whole concept of Suggested questions seem to dance between 2 different purposes, there are some that seem to be questions that may help us further refine the request, like the one about where to display the avatar. But then there are others that seem to be more about the user wanting to learn about something, for example I have a suggestion about Learning about PySide6 for UI development. Should there be a distinction about Questions for refining where we will be given a selection to further refine the task, versus those that are about other related topics?

I have more thoughts but my son just came back from school! Hope you find these reflections (sort of ramble) useful!

[khensunny]

Issue Description

I started a new Copilot Workspace from an issue in my repository, and it defaulted to using the code in the main branch. I wanted to work based on the dev branch. Noticing this, I deleted the session, set a new branch for the issue (one that was based on dev), and then tried to use the "Open in Workspace" action. The action just restored the previously deleted session based on the main branch.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Start a new Copilot Workspace from an issue in your repository.
2. Notice that the Workspace defaults to using the code in the main branch.
3. Delete the session.
4. Set a new branch for the issue (based on the dev branch).
5. Use the "Open in Workspace" action.
6. Observe that the action restores the previously deleted session based on the main branch instead of the new branch.

20250228-1535-23.4801458.mp4

[tumblingman]

I encountered network issues today while working with Copilot Workspace. The browser console shows the following errors:

lockdown-install.js:1 Removing unpermitted intrinsics  
Failed to decode downloaded font: <URL>  
OTS parsing error: invalid sfntVersion: 1008813135  
_app-0ecb26f043a56923.js:1 Refused to connect to 'https://js.monitor.azure.com/scripts/b/ai.config.1.cfg.json' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "connect-src wss://*.tunnels.api.visualstudio.com/ https://*.tunnels.api.visualstudio.com/ https://*.in.applicationinsights.azure.com/ 'self'".  
Fetch API cannot load https://js.monitor.azure.com/scripts/b/ai.config.1.cfg.json. Refused to connect because it violates the document's Content Security Policy.  

Is anyone else experiencing similar issues?

[Tiberriver256]

I love the process and the idea. This 'should' in theory give the AI super powers. My problem was even with a very detailed plan the quality of the output it created was very low. Been using Sonnet 3.5 locally and that does a far better job. Maybe it's just a model selection problem?

[W1gglyAshh]

I just get some weird code completion when programming: when I created a file and try to type a comment // created by FirstName LastName on YYMMDD, GitHub copilot will actually suggest other's name to type in! I wonder if the training data included other developers name, but I think these kind of suggestion really shouldn't appear.

[tumblingman]

Does not work today(( Can't fetch sessions and repos/

[slyk]

Me too. Still down, and no info in x or any other platforms that there are some problems.

[sethirus]

Yep I have same issue so this is everyone RN or what?

[sakhdevel]

Doesn't work. The same problem

[tumblingman]

The servers have been down for 20 hours, it's sad

[tumblingman]

Works now!

[Recxsmacx]

Sometime it stopped responding !! its been 2 days its not responding

[kittenvr]

Error generating proposed specification: You have exceeded your usage quota per hour. Copilot Workspace is a limited preview and we'd like everyone to have a chance to try it out. Please try again later. If you hit this condition regularly, please contact us via the feedback links.

[kittenvr]

i hit regularly

[kittenvr]

when it use claude 3.7?

[Balastrong]

It seems that a file with character ] (closing square bracket) gets its name terminated at that point.

The file src/app/(website)/(main)/schedule/[id].tsx exists and should be edited but since it cuts the name right before ] Workspace tries to generate a new file.

I can't gather more details right now, I hope this helps!

[seohyunjun]

First. Thanks good beta service.

Sometimes Unrecognized operation undefined and can't make pull request

[umair-me]

I am having the same issue atm. Its stuck and cant proceed.

[MattisAbrahamsson]

I tried it out and asked it to do a very simple feature, add a button to a page. I was impressed that it found the right page and component to put the button in, it even added the correct functionality to the click handler, but it seems that it did not even look at the button component, or other pages that use a button to see which props are required, even after I asked it explicitly to look at the button component it didn't do it correctly. Not really sure if I will go back and use this more if it can't do the most trivial task I could think of

[caledhwa-pnnl]

I've been noticing Github Copilot Workspace is down for me all morning. Since 5am PST.

[thejokers69]

Similarly, he is unable to fetch anything.

[Celebrum]

i can seem to do much those day i hit limit real fast as i now just did 8 file and it already stop. I don't feel it better that it constantly stop. As most of the time that it stop in the middle it cause conflict in my repo and i mostly forgot about the project as i'm working like crazy, and it what 9 month i try it, i think the worst it ever been. It almost unusable at this point as other tool cannot do what workspace can do yet but i feel just whit vscode why should i open workspace when i have much more.Hopefully tokens will go up whit a pro account. I love working whit workspace it a charmed, the env it comfortable, the ai don't loose time talking about the rain and not affect intensively by the emotion and whit the loop i can never use it i try it once or twice and it fantastic but i cap token way before it can start testing.But most of the time for testing in vs you have everything you can anyway i'm not complaining i mean i feel lucky to had a chance to work whit for a time now. Thanks you for your attention i will mp the snapshot {{ive ask 13 question for 8 file of code and i did not reach the code production it stop before}}

[terrierscript]

Copilot workspace not resolve conflict. I try some "revise" , append task and update prompt, but copilot workspace cannot update conflict (and not merge upstream) .
Finally, I regenerate new session.

[terrierscript]

Bug: When entering text into the input form in "Revise" using the IME for Japanese input, pressing the Enter key sometimes causes unintended submission.