Open Source?

[Tiberriver256]

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

Would love to see this follow VSCode and their GitHub Copilot extension

[nathfavour]

+1

[divinity76]

Btw OpenAI Codex CLI is an excellent open-source alternative to the closed-source GitHub CoPilot CLI: https://github.com/openai/codex

[nblog]

+1, especially after the release of github/copilot-sdk. Open-sourcing it would provide better insight into the internal workings and help drive the development of Copilot forward.

[martasp]

Currently, the Copilot SDK for .NET (and other languages) requires a separate Copilot CLI executable to be installed and run as a server process. This approach feels like a distribution/wrapper, as every SDK user has to manage and maintain a separate executable binary or install cli manually. This adds installation friction and increases system complexity if you want to extend and build some functionality on top.

It would be a significant improvement to offer a single statically linked library instead of github copilot cli executable, directly embedding all CLI functionality. This would:

Eliminate the need to download/install/call out to external binaries or use jsonRPC server layer.
Make integration cleaner for .NET apps by providing a GitHub Copilot NuGet package. This would mean just interop calls with the library using [LibraryImport].
The Copilot SDK readme claims "Agents for every app." However, the following use cases contradict this:

How to produce a real-world consumer Windows application with GitHub Copilot SDK if the user needs to be installed copilot cli as a dependency?
How to ship the server api with GitHub Copilot SDK if the user needs to be installed copilot cli executable as a dependency?
How to ship the client-side Blazor app with GitHub Copilot SDK if the user needs to be installed copilot cli executable as a dependency?
Unfortunately, GitHub Copilot CLI is not open-sourced, so we don't know if they can provide a clean, statically linked library.

github/copilot-sdk#248 (comment)