Manually authenticating VS Code for Copilot

[wibbico]

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Iam trying to get CoPilot to work in Visual Studio Code (1.72.2 in Windows 10, with SSH debian backend, without root privileges):

Currently Iam not able to authenticate with Copilot from VS Code:

• https://vscode.dev/codeExchangeProxyEndpoints/github/login/oauth/access_token is blocked by proxy
• alternative method via local port does not work (reduced privileges?)

Is there any way to manually add a token for Github Copilot in VSCode? For example azure cli does offer a device code from the webbrowser to be used.

Thanks

Thomas

[jmiller-rise8]

Yes, I believe this should be possible. Follow these docs.

Your access token has to be user-to-service and prepended with ghu_.

Once you get your token you will need to create a file at ~/.config/github-copilot/hosts.json that looks as follows:

{"github.com":{"user":"wibbico","oauth_token":"<YOUR_TOKEN>"}}

[wibbico]

I added the token in the host file, but the ide still wants me to log in. I do not see any other errors. Do you have any advice on where to find additional logging?

[HamzaAryanSapnil]

how to get token

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[ChristophBoget]

I'm having this problem as well. That information is set up in my hosts.json file but vscode is still asking me to log in

[abiyevseymur]

I am using Cursor which was sync with VScode. Have same problem, I setup wrong token once, now I can't change it to another.

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