Question

A platform engineer wants to integrate GitHub Copilot in the CLI into a shell automation script that generates a suggested git command for a given natural-language task, captures the output, and pipes it into a logging step — all without any interactive prompts or a terminal UI. Which approach correctly supports this scripted, non-interactive use of the Copilot CLI?

Accepted Answer

Invoke `gh copilot suggest` with the target type flag and prompt as arguments, which returns the suggested command to standard output so it can be captured and piped in a script

Answer

Run `gh copilot explain` in a loop, since it is the only Copilot CLI command designed to emit machine-readable output

Answer

Copilot CLI can only run interactively; scripted use requires screen-scraping the TUI with a tool like `expect`

Answer

Use agent mode from the IDE terminal instead, because the Copilot CLI does not support generating git commands