GitHub Copilot SDK Deep Dive: Controlling built-in tools with toolset (opens in new tab)

This post is part of a follow-up series to my GitHub Copilot SDK blog series . After wrapping up the main series I was left with a list of features that deserved more than a passing mention. This is the second post about the built-in tools. When you create a session using the SDK, the agent has access to two distinct categories of tools: Custom tools are the ones you define yourself — your CopilotTool.DefineTool(...) registrations, the available skills and MCP tools. These are the application...

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