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GitHub Copilot

Use your Copilot plan

GitHub’s coding agent, signed in with your Copilot plan — Free, Pro or Business. Conch hands it your files, sealed commands, memory and apps.

  • Copilot Free works
  • Sign in with GitHub
  • Uses your apps
  • Early support
Connects with
Your own sign-in, through its program on this computer
Your apps
Conch hands it their tools
To start
Copilot Free works
  • YesYour files and commands
  • YesSaves memories itself
  • YesAsks before each step
  • NoWorks offline

Worth knowing first

  • Conch talks to it through GitHub’s agent connection, which GitHub still calls a preview.
  • It works with Conch’s tools rather than its own: files in the chat’s work folder, sealed commands without network access, memory and your apps — so everything it changes can be put back.

Connect your Copilot plan

  1. Open Settings → Providers and choose GitHub Copilot.
  2. If Copilot isn’t on this computer, press Install GitHub Copilot. Conch shows the command it runs.
  3. Press Sign in with GitHub. Conch shows a short code. Choose Copy code and open sign-in page, paste it on GitHub and approve.

Every Copilot plan works, including Copilot Free. Your plan’s models and limits apply. Conch uses GitHub’s own Copilot program with your own sign-in, and never sees its credentials.

The same Conch tools

Conch opens a door for each turn: a connection on this computer, with a key made for that turn, that hands the program Conch’s own tools. Files in the chat’s work folder, sealed commands with no network access, memory, the browser and your apps all go through Conch’s approvals, skill limits and Undo, the same as with every provider.

The program’s own tools that would change a file or run a command ask first, and Conch declines them. An action Conch can’t seal or put back doesn’t happen.

A chat carries on in the program’s own session from one message to the next. When a chat moves between providers, the one that joins is handed what it missed, and what was done along the way. Conch gives the program its instructions (your assistant’s name and voice, what it knows about you) the way the program takes them, not as part of your message.

What the program does with its own tools shows in the chat as it happens, the same as with every provider.

Good to know

  • Early support. Conch talks to Copilot through GitHub’s agent connection, which GitHub still calls a preview.
  • Conch keeps Copilot’s version steady. It turns off Copilot’s own updates while Conch runs it, and Settings → Health → Updates offers new versions.
  • A token in your environment is left out. GH_TOKEN and GITHUB_TOKEN often hold a key for other tools that Copilot would refuse, so Conch doesn’t pass them on.