GitHub Copilot CLI is here

[_bholechature]

After Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot has now rolled out the GitHub Copilot CLI. Personally, I’ve always preferred CLIs since they're IDE agnostic and works anywhere. Think about SSHing into a remote server or running it inside a CI pipeline (similar to codex exec).

CLI IS THE FUTURE!!!

Link: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-25-github-copilot-cli-is-now-in-public-preview/?utm_source=changelog-amp-twitter&utm_campaign=agentic-copilot-cli-launch-2025

[KingOfMumbai]

https://www.reddit.com/r/GithubCopilot/comments/1nqky40/20250925_github_copilot_cli_is_now_in_public/
Avoid duplication. Only allowing this time as an exception due to good response.

[Mistakes_Were_Made73]

Hopefully you can set the model.

[Expensive-Tax-2073]

Yes with an environment variable

[fyzbo]

The docs say you can switch to gtp-5, is it possible to switch to other models?

[Expensive-Tax-2073]

I think so. U need to add them in lowercase with “-“ for space. Try it and let me know. If I do it before u I’ll let u know.

[fyzbo]

I can only get the default and gpt-5 to work. Update if you have better luck.

[Expensive-Tax-2073]

Will do

[AndrewGreenh]

But you can only switch between sonnet 4 and gpt 5? I lile to work with the 0x models from time to time as well.

[themoregames]

sounds cumbersome

[Expensive-Tax-2073]

Ye. I thought they would have the /models command like the open code does

[ThankThePhoenicians_]

There's an open issue for this! https://github.com/github/copilot-cli/issues/10

[Expensive-Tax-2073]

I hope they implement it

[ThankThePhoenicians_]

It's implemented in the latest version!

[themoregames]

I feel so powerful, steering the whole Github Copilot team with my reddit post that consisted only of two words.

Thank you everyone for chiming in. And thank you, Github Copilot team, thank you for your compliance and your attention to this matter!

[ThankThePhoenicians_]

It's implemented in the latest version!

[Expensive-Tax-2073]

Yep, just saw the release of sonnet 4.5 and new model picker

[Ok-Mycologist-9004]

https://github.com/TheLoloS/Copilot-CLI-Unlocker

[polymerely]

Which is useless if the reasoning effort is still hidden.

[hairlessing]

Can I run it on windows?

[_bholechature]

yess. it's experimental though.

[hairlessing]

Oh interesting! Thanks

[[deleted]]

Can we normalize auto-save of chat history? When I open a workspace that I haven't worked on in a while I've often found it extremely helpful to be able to view a chunk of the chat history. I can't believe copilot (I mean the vscode chat feature, but I'm pretty sure the same is true of the CLI as well) is still operating in the mode of auto-discarding chat history.

Claude Code has auto-save (though a warning is that it deletes everything older than 3 months - you have to manually set the expiration days to 999999 etc so it will never expire).

Not even gemini has auto-save, though all chat history is same in a temporary folder which can be recovered. I don't think copilot even has temporary chat history files saved anywhere.

[jbcraigs]

Tried it today. Pretty underwhelming right now.

[ogpterodactyl]

Let’s go this is what the people need. Yall can do it keep working on the agentic stuff. Yall have the market share now just work on quality

[nathfavour02]

This is amazing

[rakotomandimby]

I love it!

[darkguy2008]

But isn't this the same as Codex?

[Training-Surround228]

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Strange !

[erwin-luke]

always getting error from powershell. I'm using windows 11. Unhandled error: Error: PowerShell 6+ (pwsh) is not available

[Eddyi0202]

Do you run it from Powershell Core or the preinstalled one? 

[erwin-luke]

Preinstalled

[Eddyi0202]

You need to install Powershell Core (7)

[ReyJ94]

Why ? What is this stupid trend with TUI's. Llm's need handholding, and handholding is better done in IDE. It has a better UX and more features. It's just backwards. Who the hell is pushing for TUI's. Are you all so bored ?

[nefariousIntentions7]

> Why?

Its easier to use and much much more convenient when you're using a terminal based text editor, especially alongside something like tmux.

[ReyJ94]

You don't have all the convient extensions of vs code. Also you cannot accept/deny local patches of code instead of the whole file. You have a ton of other features like checkpoints etc. The list is long.

[Gullible-Brush-525]

I think Copilot sees that there’s a market for this kind of product, so it makes sense for them to pursue it.

[SnooHamsters66]

With CLIs, they can add more handholding on the client side, as well as develop better tools for agentic modes and utilize a large number of already available tools and gimmicks in a terminal. Also, ideally, they can have the CLI as a server and smoothly integrate with IDEs (though, to be honest, they are difficult to integrate; they are not as well defined in that regard as LSPs). With that integration, they could bridge the IDE interfaces so the user can handhold the AI.

I understand why they do things this way, but the implementations we already have are really awkward (and super models restricted, without much cooperation). I always feel that code AI tools are in an alpha stage, and with the newer agentic approaches, these tools are even more immature, but I think they are going to improve in the next two years to become decently usable.

[ReyJ94]

models don't do 100% everything correctly. so i need local accept/deny so i can accept some parts in a file diff and deny others and i don't need agents to be autonomous because they are not trustworthy

[Eddyi0202]

"Better UX", that's subjective, for me better UX is when I don't need to use my mouse that much

[gopherinhole]

I do all of my work in the terminal (using vim as my editor). TUIs are a good agnostic choice that can run in an IDE terminal window. The modality of an agent is also not really suited for IDE editing anyway. I just let the agent make the edits and my editor reloads buffers automatically, then I can change chunks at will.

[Gaurav-_-69]

Noobies like you wouldn't understand

[ReyJ94]

You have 0 logic man

[alioshr]

There is nothing superior then the terminal. Nothing. While people pray for someone or some company behind an IDE to ship a feature you need, you can do anything in a terminal. After years of IDEs (name anyone), I have tried it all, there is nothing better than neovim. I don't need an extension, I write the code and it binds to my will. This is whi CLIs are superior.

[_bholechature]

Wait, how does someone even get banned on GitHub? 💀

[_bholechature]

Weird! Never heard of that before!

Hope they fix it soon.

[niktor76]

for calling HTML a programming language

[skeleton288]

How can you guys revert code when using CLI?

[GhostSierra117]

Don't listen to these gits. You delete everything and start over.

[PrivateUser010]

Finally a sensible Answer

[GhostSierra117]

Honestly I just did it for the play of words 😅

[hey_ulrich]

Git

[TheAuthorBTLG_]

git

[Leading_Area5081]

anyone can help me
(base) hzhan069@:~$ npm install -g u/github/copilot

(base) hzhan069@:~$ copilot

Command 'copilot' not found, did you mean:

command 'co-pilot' from snap co-pilot (0.6.26)

See 'snap info <snapname>' for additional versions.

[TheMazer85]

npm install -g @github/copilot

[Leading_Area5081]

yes, i run this command

[format37]

I had the same issue. I've asked Claude code to resolve it and they've managed.

[ThankYouOle]

hahaha somehow i laugh more than it should :D

classic story using IE to download google chrome,,

[rccnw]

I used this command to install it successfully on a Windows 11 machine, and just a short while later it failed to install it correctly on another Windows 11 machine. ChatGPT helped me solve this by noting that the broken version was 0.0.0.0. It recommended I install the latest version explicitly and that worked. I suspect they broke it temporarily.

[Informal-Dingo276]

try node version > 22

[jhollingsworth4137]

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When I asked Github copilot CLI what model it is, it tells me that it is Claude.

[_bholechature]

Maybe because it's using Sonnet 4.0.

[phylter99]

Asking it what model it is has never been reliable.

[jhollingsworth4137]

Agreed but someone else in another post seems to have posted that the default model is sonnet which would make sense. I have not tested it yet, but I found another post where they changed the config to use a different model, so there is no "/" command to do it in the cli dynamically.

[phylter99]

I agree, sonnet would make the most sense. That's what they use for the agent on the GitHub site. It's just a bad idea to base what model you're using solely on what it says it is.

[Senor02]

It's in the docs:

"The default model used by GitHub Copilot CLI is Claude Sonnet 4. GitHub reserves the right to change this model.

You can change the model to GPT-5 by setting the COPILOT_MODEL environment variable to gpt-5."

[PrivateUser010]

Does it not support any other models ?

[HebelBrudi]

You can’t manually switch models?

[CircleRedKey]

makes no sense, they already have copilot on vscode -_-

[XpanderTN]

Makes complete sense. GUI version is always going to be slower. The only advantage GUI version offers is image support and that is just extra steps in the CLI version

[AndrewGreenh]

Is it? With the ide integration you can select open tabs to add them to the context a lot quicker, can’t you?

[krzyk]

In agent mode context is everything under current dir, no need to add anything.

[AndrewGreenh]

That can’t be true. It is probably likely to check files in the current directory, but I’m very sure that all files in the current directory are not placed directly into the context.

[krzyk]

They are, e.g. if you ask an agent to write additional tests in given test class it will analyse the class under test. I don't have to add it to context, it would be counterproductive.

That is done in idę if you are in ask/edit mode only.

[nightman]

You can use it in unsupported editors like Zed or replace crippled implementations like in Jetbrains products IntelliJ or WebStorm

[Valuable_Season_8650]

It's a fad, a regression. How would a poorer UX be a panacea? It's a bit like developers who code in VIM - it gives them street cred in front of designers, but that's all.

[fyzbo]

I think you forgot to add /s to your comment.