I missed GitHub announcing that the gh copilot extension is going to stop working on October 2025. I wasn't using it much, but I was surprised to see that it is no longer working. But it seems that now they have a standalone CLI tool that is supposed to replace it. The new tool is called GitHub Copilot CLI which like all other similar LLM tools is asking to install it using npm.

You can install it using the following command:

npm install -g @github/copilot

I gave it a try and seems to be working, although currently it is counted against your premium requests qouta which is a bit annoying. It would be more useful if it was free to use like the gh copilot extension. I guess they are trying to monetize it more now that it is a standalone tool. I also have removed the gh copilot extension from my gh CLI configuration, since it is no longer working, and I don't plan to use it anymore. To do this you can run the following command:

gh extension remove github/gh-copilot

I hope that the new CLI tool will be more useful and have more features than the old extension. I will keep an eye on it and see how it evolves in the future. But currently, it is not as useful as I hoped it would be. Not to mention I don't feel comfortable letting LLM have access to everything my terminal does.