Add GitHub Copilot guide - #138
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| - Cookie banner: guides/cookies-banner.md | ||
| - Defra Identity: guides/defra-id.md | ||
| - Docker guidance: guides/docker_guidance.md | ||
| - Entra: guides/entra.md | ||
| - GitHub Advanced Security: guides/github_advanced_security.md | ||
| - GitHub Copilot: guides/github_copilot.md |
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Noticed a few guides were missing from the nav
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Looks good, left one comment but it is an optional thing.
| Chat history shapes what Copilot does next. A long thread full of dead ends and failed attempts is noise that inflates cost and can steer the model in the wrong direction. | ||
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| - **Delete stale or dead-end messages** within a session. If a response went in completely the wrong direction, remove it so it does not pollute subsequent turns. | ||
| - **Start a fresh session for a new task.** Long threads carry context from earlier work that has no relevance to your current ask. |
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Maybe add a tip to monitor context usage with the context window that includes a visual fill indicator? Context compaction should occur automatically but can be manually done using the button in the context window or via the /compact command - https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/chat/copilot-chat-context#_monitor-context-window-usage
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