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GitHub Copilot CLI

copilot

The power of GitHub Copilot coding agent, brought to your terminal.

Detected by copilot | macOS, Linux, Windows |docs.github.com

Sync it copilot.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

GitHub Copilot CLI in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· settings.json Sync

…

},

"filesystem": {

"type": "local",

"command": "/opt/homebrew/bin/npx",machine-local

"args": ["-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem", "/Users/octocat/src"],machine-local

"tools": ["*"],

"env": {}

}

…

Each machine keeps its own copy of these.

· lsp-config.json Sync

· copilot-instructions.md Sync

· instructions/ Sync

· agents/ Sync

· skills/ Sync

· extensions/ Sync

· hooks/ Sync

· session-state/ Exclude

· command-history-state/ Exclude

· logs/ Exclude

· installed-plugins/ Exclude

· plugin-data/ Exclude

· ide/ Exclude

· session-store.db Exclude

· permissions-config.json Exclude

· config.json Never synced

· mcp-oauth-config/ Never synced

· mcp-secrets/ Never synced

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/copilot.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "copilot"

name = "GitHub Copilot CLI"

homepage = "https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/use-copilot-cli/overview"

description = "The power of GitHub Copilot coding agent, brought to your terminal."

icon = "SimpleIcons:githubcopilot"

# The AWS ECS tooling once shipped a binary called `copilot` too. This entry is

# GitHub's, which is what `copilot` resolves to on a current install.

detect = ["copilot"]

# https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/copilot-cli-reference/cli-config-dir-reference

# — "Copilot CLI stores its configuration, session history, logs, and

# customizations in a single directory … By default, this directory is

# ~/.copilot". The same page names each entry: settings.json is the "primary

# configuration file", mcp-config.json and lsp-config.json hold user-level

# server definitions, and copilot-instructions.md, instructions/, agents/,

# skills/, extensions/ and hooks/ are the personal customizations.

paths = [

"~/.copilot/settings.json",

"~/.copilot/mcp-config.json",

"~/.copilot/lsp-config.json",

"~/.copilot/copilot-instructions.md",

"~/.copilot/instructions/",

"~/.copilot/agents/",

"~/.copilot/skills/",

"~/.copilot/extensions/",

"~/.copilot/hooks/",

]

# Same page, the state half of the directory: session-state/ ("session history,

# event logs, and workspace artifacts"), command-history-state/, logs/,

# session-store.db ("SQLite database for cross-session data indexing"), ide/

# ("lock files and state"), installed-plugins/, plugin-data/, and

# permissions-config.json ("Saved tool and directory permission decisions per

# project"), which names paths on this machine.

exclude = [

"~/.copilot/session-state/",

"~/.copilot/command-history-state/",

"~/.copilot/logs/",

"~/.copilot/installed-plugins/",

"~/.copilot/plugin-data/",

"~/.copilot/ide/",

"~/.copilot/session-store.db",

"~/.copilot/permissions-config.json",

]

# Same page: config.json "Stores internal application state including

# authentication data", mcp-oauth-config/ holds "MCP OAuth tokens and

# registration fallback storage", and mcp-secrets/ is "Local fallback storage

# for MCP secret placeholders".

secret = [

"~/.copilot/config.json",

"~/.copilot/mcp-oauth-config/",

"~/.copilot/mcp-secrets/",

]

# A local MCP server is launched by an executable and arguments that exist on

# this machine — `"command": "npx"`, `"args": ["--from", "git+…"]` in the

# examples on

# https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/customize-copilot/add-mcp-servers

# The server list itself is worth carrying. The launch line is still the

# user's own wiring and has to go back the way it was on a rebuild, so it is

# kept: backup.

[[machine_lines]]

file = "~/.copilot/mcp-config.json"

match = { key_path = ["mcpServers.*.command", "mcpServers.*.args"] }

scope = "backup"

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/copilot. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these keeps all credential files out. None of them splits mcpServers.*.command and mcpServers.*.args for you — that part is Otty’s own sync, or a template you write by hand.