GitHub Copilot in the Terminal: Adapting Familiar Workflows 🤖
Spent the last few weeks running GitHub Copilot and the takeaway is clear: Microsoft has quietly delivered a major leap forward.
You don’t need to reinvent your engineering habits. Your existing prompting patterns, task framing, and CLI‑centric workflows transfer almost 1:1 from Claude.
Here’s what stood out:
• Copilot’s Terminal Autonomy - The agent now operates with top‑tier stability directly in the CLI, executing multi‑step tasks without drifting.
• Custom Agents & Skills - Fine‑grained configuration gives you predictable behavior, controlled reasoning depth, and zero “creative detours.”
• Tight Feedback Loop - The agent runs validation commands, reads test output, applies fixes, and iterates until the task is actually done.
• No Retraining Required - Refactoring, debugging, test writing, and architectural prompting behave exactly the way seasoned engineers expect.
In practice, only the interface changes.
Your engineering discipline, prompting style, and workflow structure remain intact efficient.
Curious: are you using custom agents and skills in Copilot CLI, or sticking with the default setup?
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