What Copilot Free includes, how to switch on the editor, agent mode and the CLI, how to make 2,000 completions last, and every catch in GitHub's own words

The companion to the reel. GitHub Copilot Free is a real plan, not a trial: 2,000 code completions a month, chat, agent mode in your editor and the Copilot CLI in your terminal, on nothing but a GitHub account and no credit card. Chat and agent runs come from a monthly allowance and GitHub picks the model. PAGE 1 — the plan in GitHub's own words and five steps to running in ten minutes. PAGE 2 — Free vs Pro row by row, what a completion is, and which tool to use for which job. PAGE 3 — switch it all on: the editor, three first asks for agent mode, every Copilot CLI install command, MCP servers. PAGE 4 — make 2,000 last: the VS Code setting that stops suggestions in prose files, and habits that save completions and agent runs. PAGE 5 — six catches, each quoted from GitHub. PAGE 6 — the proof checklist. Every figure is quoted from the page it names, read September 24, 2026. Independent guide from Hyperautomation Labs — not affiliated with GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI or Anthropic.

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