Copilot Support for Repo Wikis

[laurenfrederick]

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Copilot in GitHub

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Copilot doesn’t seem able to read or use content from a repository’s wiki. When asked about the wiki in a private repo that I have access to I get:

Unfortunately, I'm unable to directly access the content of that wiki page. The <repo> repository appears to be private, and GitHub wiki pages are not accessible via the REST API tools available to me — so I can't read the actual text of the page.

Not having wikis included makes Copilot a lot less useful for answering questions about the project and is excluding useful documentation from its context. It’s a bit surprising that wiki content isn’t included as a first-class context source.

Current workaround:
The only thing I’ve found is cloning the wiki repo separately and opening it in an IDE/CLI so Copilot can “see” it. That works, but it’s definitely more friction than it should be—especially for quick questions.

I would love to see Copilot being able to access wiki content directly.

Curious if this is on the roadmap at all, or if others have found better workarounds. Thanks!

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