John Savill's Technical Training walks through installing and using GitHub Copilot CLI plus the Work IQ plugin, including prerequisites (PowerShell 7, Windows Terminal, Node.js), login/auth steps, and examples of interactive and non-interactive agentic CLI usage.

Getting Started with GitHub Copilot CLI and Work IQ

John Savill's Technical Training demonstrates how to set up GitHub Copilot CLI and add the Work IQ plugin, with a practical, step-by-step install and first-use walkthrough.

What this video covers

• Why use CLIs
• Installing prerequisites and GitHub Copilot CLI
• Installing and enabling the Work IQ plugin
• First “agentic” usage in the CLI
• Authentication flows (including Microsoft 365 authentication mentioned in the chapter list)
• Interactive vs non-interactive usage
• Selecting different inferencing models (as referenced in the chapter list)

Step-by-step setup (Windows)

1) Create / access a GitHub account

• Sign up: https://github.com/signup

2) Install prerequisites

Note: the description calls out these commands as case sensitive.

Install PowerShell 7:

winget install -e --id Microsoft.PowerShell

Install Windows Terminal:

winget install -e --id Microsoft.WindowsTerminal

Install Node.js:

winget install -e --id OpenJS.NodeJS

3) Install GitHub Copilot CLI

winget install -e --id GitHub.Copilot

4) Install the Work IQ plugin

/plugin install workiq@copilot-plugins

5) Accept the Work IQ EULA

workiq accept-eula

Key reference link

• GitHub Copilot CLI getting started: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/cli-getting-started

Chapters (from the video description)

• 00:00 - Introduction
• 00:11 - Why CLIs
• 01:16 - GitHub Copilot CLI
• 02:29 - Work IQ
• 05:19 - Organization onboarding
• 06:22 - Things I need (accounts)
• 08:03 - Things to install on my machine
• 09:05 - Core components
• 11:20 - Non Windows installation
• 11:48 - Using Terminal
• 13:40 - Launching the GitHub Copilot CLI
• 14:18 - Logging into GitHub
• 15:41 - My first CLI agentic use
• 16:06 - Adding Work IQ plug-in
• 17:23 - Accepting the EULA
• 18:01 - New Work IQ skill
• 18:52 - Using Work IQ
• 19:22 - Authenticating to M365
• 20:31 - Other types of interaction
• 23:22 - Using other inferencing models
• 23:49 - Closing and resuming
• 24:21 - Non-interactive use