GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is available inside VS Code and JetBrains IDEs. Use Copilot Chat in agent mode to work with your Anybuild application.

Setup

Install the GitHub Copilot extension for your IDE:

• VS Code - install GitHub Copilot from the VS Code Marketplace
• JetBrains - install the GitHub Copilot plugin from JetBrains Marketplace

Clone your application and open the folder:

anybuild clone <your-app-url>

Working with multiple applications

If your instance has more than one application, consider opening your IDE at the instance level rather than inside a single application:

my_instance/
  app1/    ← anybuild clone <app1-url>
  app2/    ← anybuild clone <app2-url>

Open the my_instance/ folder in VS Code. The AI can then see and work across all your applications in one session. CLI commands must be run from inside a specific application folder - open a terminal per application when you need to push or pull.

Workflow

Prompt the agent

Open Copilot Chat and switch to agent mode. Describe what you want to build or change. The AGENTS.md file at the root of your project is picked up automatically - no manual context loading needed.

Review changes

anybuild status

Lists all locally modified files across the tracked folders (ui/lit/components, be/node, be/plv8).

Push to the platform

anybuild push

Deploys your changes back to the Anybuild application.

Pull latest

anybuild pull

Fetches the latest version of your application code from the platform.