Allison announces the retirement of GitHub Copilot knowledge bases, urging users to transition to Copilot Spaces, which offers enhanced context sharing and management for development teams.

GitHub Copilot Knowledge Bases Retiring: Transition to Copilot Spaces

Effective Date: September 12, 2025

GitHub Copilot knowledge bases will be officially retired and replaced by Copilot Spaces. Copilot Spaces provides a next-generation approach to sharing context with Copilot, aimed at improving answer quality by grounding results in documentation, code, issues, pull requests, and more.

Who is Impacted?

All users currently relying on Copilot knowledge bases for custom context management

What’s Changing?

Copilot Spaces Availability: Anyone with a Copilot account can create Copilot Spaces. Admins need to enable preview policies for Business and Enterprise accounts (see documentation).
Flexible Sharing: Copilot Spaces may be kept private or shared with organizations, teams, or specific users.
Rich Content Integration: Spaces support adding code, Markdown, JSON, images, file uploads, GitHub issues, and pull requests.
Improved Context Management: Enhanced strategies in Spaces raise the accuracy and relevance of Copilot’s responses.

Next Steps

Begin migrating your Copilot knowledge base content to Copilot Spaces before the sunset date.
Learn how to create and use Copilot Spaces with the official guide.
For questions or assistance, reach out to GitHub Support or your account team.

Stay ahead by upgrading to Copilot Spaces to ensure continued context-aware AI-assisted development for you and your team.

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