Github Copilot Auto Approve

Introduction

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While the Copilot team has taken measures to prohibit the agent from executing disastrous commands, auto approving commands will always hold an inherent risk.

Auto Approve Everything

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To auto approve all commands the agent intends to run, follow the steps below.

• Open the VS Code setting with cmd + ,
• In the Search settings text field, type chat auto approve
  • Click the check box to enable the setting
• Again, in Search settings, type chat max requests
  • For me, this setting was set at a default of 25 which was not sufficient for more sophisticated tasks, so I increased this value to 100

Auto Approve Selected Commands

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As described in this GitHub issue, the Copilot agent now supports explicit enabling and disabling of commands:

"chat.agent.terminal.autoApprove": {
  "foo": true,
  "bar": false
}