GitHub Copilot

What is GitHub Copilot?

GitHub Copilot is GitHub's AI coding assistant. It provides access to Copilot models for your GitHub account and plan. OpenClaw can use Copilot as a model provider via the official GitHub Copilot SDK. OpenClaw uses the GitHub device flow to obtain a GitHub token and exchanges it for Copilot API tokens at runtime. This is the recommended and supported path for integrating Copilot with OpenClaw.

Use GitHub Copilot as a model provider (github-copilot). The login command runs the GitHub device flow, saves an auth profile, and updates your config to use that profile.

CLI setup

Run the OpenClaw login flow to create an auth profile:

openclaw models auth login-github-copilot

This creates an auth profile and (optionally) updates your config to use it.

Optional flags

openclaw models auth login-github-copilot --profile-id github-copilot:work
openclaw models auth login-github-copilot --yes

Set a default model

openclaw models set github-copilot/gpt-4o

Config snippet

{
  agents: { defaults: { model: { primary: "github-copilot/gpt-4o" } } }
}

Notes

Requires an interactive TTY; run it directly in a terminal.
Copilot model availability depends on your plan; if a model is rejected, try another ID (for example github-copilot/gpt-4.1).
The login stores a GitHub token in the auth profile store and exchanges it for a Copilot API token when OpenClaw runs.

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