Enable custom tips

[grantborthwick]

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

Enable developers to specify a list of custom tips that copilot will show in addition to its own to users

Proposed solution

In .gihub/config.json, add a property that takes in an array of strings that will be shown to users as tips in addition to the ones the copilot cli shows on its own. I help maintain a monorepo for several teams, and this would enable me to present users with tips about new things they can try in copilot.

Example prompts or workflows

tip: run /build to build the project
tip: attend our office hours: https://aka.ms/link

Additional context

This is similar in nature to the custom spinners that you can add to claude code's configuration.

[tpope]

This is similar in nature to the custom spinners that you can add to claude code's configuration.

We don't have a spinnerTipsOverride equivalent, but we did recently gain support for a Claude Code style companyAnnouncements in .github/copilot/settings.json. That might work for you?

[examon]

As tpope mentioned, the companyAnnouncements setting in .github/copilot/settings.json covers this. You can provide an array of custom strings, and one is randomly shown on startup - useful for team announcements in a monorepo. If this doesn't fully address your use case, feel free to reopen.