Bring back ghcs and ghce

[JKamsker]

Describe the feature or problem you'd like to solve

No response

Proposed solution

I really enojyed using ghcs top quickly look up a command - with the deprication of the gh copilot feature it is not available anymore. Can we get it back please?

https://web.archive.org/web/20250726104159/https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/configure-personal-settings/customize-copilot-in-the-cli

Example prompts or workflows

No response

Additional context

No response

[g000m]

+1 I used ghcs/ghce suggest/explain daily! Please reimplement this functionality.

[vbrozik]

See and vote for #53

[andyfeller]

👋 from your GitHub CLI friends, I wanted share similar interest from @vdsbenoit in cli/cli#12171 one-shot suggestion generation and ability to explain arbitrary commands:

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve
You've removed copilot from the latest gh version in favor of the new Copilot CLI. These are 2 different tools. Copilot CLI does not offers the simplicity of the copilot part of the GitHub CLI. The features of Copilot CLI are already included in my IDE.

Proposed solution
Ensure you have feature parity in Copilot CLI before sunsetting gh copilot. Or keep both and keep ghcs and ghce light - quick results - tools.

Additional context
I used to use ghcs to quickly get command suggestions in the terminal. This feature does not exists in Copilot CLI. Copilot CLI force me to trust the current directory to start running.

[clover-yan]

Bring it back

[clover-yan]

No way! You've broken ghcs. I could use it 5 days ago with the old version of gh copilot extension, but it only returns 400 now. You never considered real users' feedback and are always in a hurry to break all the features that users like. I'm really sad to see this. Considering your recent unreliable changes to GitHub Actions, I may no longer use GitHub if the issue is not solved properly.

$ ghcs 'something'

Welcome to GitHub Copilot in the CLI!
version 1.1.1 (2025-06-17)

I'm powered by AI, so surprises and mistakes are possible. Make sure to verify any generated code or suggestions, and share feedback so that we can learn and improve. For more information, see https://gh.io/gh-copilot-transparency

✗ Error: failed to suggest: failed to create suggest message: error sending request: internal server error, code: 400, request ID: BEE0:100C3D:D0B391:1026247:6929607E

[vbrozik]

@clover-yan see #53 (Bring back the GitHub Copilot in the CLI commands to not break workflows) for more information and vote for it.

Maybe this one should be closed as a duplicate?

[Armadillidiid]

Yeah, I’m really disappointed to see this go, especially without a true replacement. The new GitHub Copilot CLI isn’t the same. It’s agentic and adds unnecessary context of cwd, when all you need is a simple prompt-in, response-out workflow

[Armadillidiid]

Hi guys, I've created a working replacement for this including multiple provider support. You can check it out here.

Any contribution will be highly welcomed.

[davide-parini]

Give a try to aish

A tool i created to replace ghcs with same (if not better) performance and zero dependencies.

At the moment it is optimized for MacOS and zsh, and can be easily installed with Brew.

brew tap davide-parini/aish
brew install aish

It supports Gemini (providing a key).
It also supports local model execution with Ollama.

Any contribution to make this more versatile (e.g. adding Linux support or other LLM providers) is welcome!

[ReHoss]

what's up ? any similar tool from others LLM?