Democratize Tribal Knowledge Using Copilot Spaces

What are Copilot Spaces?

• Copilot Spaces let you organize the context that Copilot uses to answer your questions.
• Spaces can include repositories, code, pull requests, issues, free-text content like transcripts or notes, images, and file uploads.
• You can ask Copilot questions grounded in that context, or share the space with your team to support collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Why use Copilot Spaces?

Whether you’re working solo or collaborating across a team, Spaces help you make Copilot more useful.

With Copilot Spaces you can:

• Get more relevant, specific answers from Copilot.
• Stay in flow by collecting what you need for a task in one place.
• Reduce repeated questions by sharing knowledge with your team.
• Support onboarding and reuse with self-service context that lives beyond chat history.
• Your spaces stay in sync as your project evolves.
  • GitHub files and other GitHub-based sources added to a space are automatically updated as they change,
    making Copilot an evergreen expert in your project.

Welcome

• Who is this for: Project managers, team leads, and developers looking to streamline knowledge sharing

• What you'll learn: How to leverage GitHub Copilot Spaces to capture, organize, and improve project management processes

• What you'll build: A comprehensive knowledge management system using Copilot Spaces for team collaboration

• Prerequisites:

  • Basic familiarity with GitHub repositories
  • Access to GitHub Copilot Spaces
  • Beginner-level project management concepts

• How long: This exercise takes less than 30 minutes to complete.

In this exercise, you will use Copilot Spaces:

1. Add a repository as a source to your Copilot Space
2. Add instructions to your Copilot Space
3. Create issues in the repository using Copilot Spaces
4. Explore and summarize project management process documentation
5. Update repository documentation based on insights and gaps discovered

How to start this exercise

Simply copy the exercise to your account, then give your favorite Octocat (Mona) about 20 seconds to prepare the first lesson, then refresh the page.

Having trouble? 🤷

When copying the exercise, we recommend the following settings:

• For owner, choose your personal account or an organization to host the repository.

• We recommend creating a public repository, since private repositories will use Actions minutes.

If the exercise isn't ready in 20 seconds, please check the Actions tab.

• Check to see if a job is running. Sometimes it simply takes a bit longer.

• If the page shows a failed job, please submit an issue. Nice, you found a bug! 🐛

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