Everything GitHub Copilot — Hands-On Lab

A comprehensive, hands-on lab teaching the full GitHub Copilot agentic development experience — agents, skills, instructions, prompts, hooks, MCP servers, orchestration, and GitHub Agentic Workflows — all while working on a real .NET application.

⏱️ Pre-work — complete setup before the session begins.

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🚨 Pre-Workshop Setup Checklist

Facilitators: share this section with attendees before the session. Setup takes 15–30 minutes on a good network and can fail on restricted laptops. Attendees arriving with a failing preflight may need to switch to Codespaces to keep up.

Attendees — run this checklist end-to-end and arrive with a green preflight:

1. Read the Prerequisites section below and install anything you are missing.
2. Authenticate the CLIs once so the session does not start on a login prompt:
   • gh auth login — GitHub CLI
   • copilot (launch it once and complete the sign-in flow)
3. Clone the repo to a fast local filesystem. On Windows/WSL2 this means a path under your Linux home directory (e.g. ~/repos/day-in-the-life-copilot-lab), not /mnt/c/…. See the Lab 14 compatibility matrix for why.
4. Run the preflight script and resolve any FAIL items. WARN items are acceptable but review them:

   # macOS, Linux, WSL2
   scripts/preflight.sh --lab14
   
   # Windows PowerShell (non-Lab-14 paths only; see matrix)
   pwsh scripts/preflight.ps1 -Lab14
   

   Expected green result:

   Summary: 0 FAIL, 0 WARN
   Result: READY ✅
   

   --lab14 / -Lab14 enables the strict Lab 14 checks (tmux required, WSL1 and Windows-PS-only become FAIL). Drop that flag if you are certain you will skip Lab 14.
5. Optional but recommended: open the devcontainer once (Codespaces or local Docker/Podman) so its image is pre-pulled. See Choose Your Path.

If preflight FAILs: