GitHub Copilot CLI - A Claude Code Alternative?

Another day, another agentic cli 😅

GitHub Copilot has released their coding agent like Claude Code in public beta.

👉 https://github.blog/changelog/2025-09-25-github-copilot-cli-is-now-in-public-preview/

Right now, it is pretty basic version though don’t expect much from it though and it has the usual stuffs

How to get started?

You can install this from npm

npm install -g @github/copilot

Once you’ve installed it, login with your GitHub account.

And start using it like how you use Claude Code or other agentic CLI.