Are you ready to enhance your journey in building Teams applications and customizing Microsoft 365 Copilot? Introducing the GitHub Copilot for Teams Toolkit—your companion in Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and GitHub.com. It is an extension of GitHub Copilot, providing you with an enhanced developing experience in chat. From getting started to tackling your challenges, let AI-powered chat take your development easier.

How to enable GitHub Copilot for Teams Toolkit?

In the ‘Copilot’ category of GitHub Marketplace, you can find and install the GitHub Copilot extension for Teams Toolkit. Once it is installed, you can invoke this extension from GitHub Copilot Chat in Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, and GitHub.com.

How can you use GitHub Copilot for Teams Toolkit?

Simply type “@teamsapp” in GitHub Copilot Chat and then answer your question about building Teams apps or customizing and extending Microsoft 365 Copilot.

• Explore Teams app or Microsoft 365 Copilot agent development with prompts such as:

“What types of apps can I build for Teams?”

“How can I create a real-world Teams app?”

“What’s the difference between declarative and custom agents?”

• Provide details about your intended Teams app or Microsoft 365 Copilot agent to get relevant sample or template to get started:

“I want to create a ToDo list Teams app.”

“I want to build a Microsoft 365 Copilot agent.”

• Resolve issues encountered during Teams app or Microsoft 365 agent development.

“My Teams app doesn’t sideload when debugging with Teams Toolkit.”

“My tab app SSO is not working on mobile platform.”

Meanwhile, when using Visual Studio Code, you can also switch your Teams Toolkit extension to prerelease version (v5.11.2024112909+). It will lead you to use this extension with GitHub Copilot chat to simplify your experience.

Help shape the future of @teamsapp

We are excited to expand @teamsapp during the public preview. We would like to hear your thoughts or any issues with this extension. You can submit a GitHub issue from here or complete this survey. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and will be helpful for us to shape the future of this extension. We are looking forward to seeing how you use this GitHub Copilot extension in your app lifecycle.