Stack Overflow extension for GitHub Copilot

The Stack Overflow extension for GitHub Copilot provides trusted answers to your coding questions. Eliminate the need to switch between applications when you're stuck. Directly in Copilot, you can @askstackoverflow your question and get a summarized response based on more than 58 million+ questions and answers on Stack Overflow.

Last updated October 29, 2024
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According to our 2024 Developer Survey, 61% of developers spend more than 30 minutes a day searching for answers or solutions to problems. Switching between screens and applications is distracting, and is time you’re not spending writing code and completing projects.

How the Stack Overflow extension helps you

By delivering 16 years of community-validated, technical knowledge right where you're already working, the Stack Overflow extension for GitHub Copilot keeps you in your flow state so you can increase productivity and learn faster.

Feature set

  • Use @askstackoverflow to ask your coding question directly in GitHub Copilot and receive a summarized response based on the 58 million+ technical questions and answers on Stack Overflow.
  • Easily access links back to the Stack Overflow content used to generate the response to your question for additional context and information.

Sign up today to request early access to the Stack Overflow extension for GitHub Copilot. We look forward to hearing your feedback!

Please note: This feature is for Stack Overflow users and is not yet available for Stack Overflow for Teams. If you are a Stack Overflow for Teams customer, you may be interested in Stack Overflow for Visual Studio Code.

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About Labs

Since 2008 Stack Overflow has pioneered open source conversations in the technology community, helping us become the most visited, most trusted destination for developers in the world. In 2017, we unleashed the same productivity gains inside companies with Stack Overflow for Teams.

Knowledge sharing between peers and experts is fundamental to software development ‒ you can see it happening in Slack, in meetings, or quick hangs. Advances in technology, like GenAI, puts everyone in learning mode and knowledge sharing is at the core of that experience.

Stack Overflow for Teams sits at the very intersection of curiosity and innovation, a place to ask & answer your peers’ questions, learn from other experts within the company, and keep up with ‒ or be the driver of ‒ all new developments.

Our guiding principles

Find new ways to give technologists more time to create amazing things.
Accuracy is fundamental. That comes from attributed, peer-reviewed sources that provide transparency.
The coding field should be accessible to all, including beginners to advanced users.
Humans should always be included in the application of any new technology.

With these in mind, starting over the next few months, we will be sharing our ideas, opinions, designs, research and product ideas which combine emerging technologies with our platforms and services.