Copilot CLI Tutorial #2 - Commands

Why It Matters

Understanding slash commands and model selection in Copilot CLI streamlines developer workflows, lets teams delegate work to cloud agents, and helps balance cost, speed, and reasoning quality when choosing models. Mastering these controls increases productivity and governance over automated coding tasks.

Summary

The tutorial explains Copilot CLI’s slash (/) commands—prebuilt shortcuts for actions like login, exit, change-log, copying output, delegating sessions to cloud, diffing, toggling experimental features, and sharing sessions. The instructor demos using change-log with a summarize flag, the copy and delegate commands, and shows the help screen that categorizes commands by function. They highlight the model command to switch among available AI models and reasoning levels (low/medium/high), noting plan-dependent model availability and cost/performance tradeoffs. The video also points viewers to Copilot docs listing model recommendations for different tasks.

Original Description

In this Copilot CLI tutorial, I'll show you how to adopt an AI-assisted development workflow using commands, skills, MCP servers, plan mode and custom agents.

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