This is a real guide, generated for an example user. Yours is built from a short interview about how you actually work — your saved prompts, your projects, your do-not-break workflows. Free during beta.
How to move from Cursor to GitHub Copilot.
A step-by-step playbook to move Cursor workflows into GitHub Copilot — copy-ready, checkable, and checked against each tool’s own docs.
- Prepared for
- An example 3-person marketing team
- Sources
- 10 verified sources
7 steps, 3 paste-ready assets, 10 to confirm in GitHub Copilot, about 105 minutes.
- AI multi-file refactors in the editor
- Terminal command help
Setup steps
Work through these in order. Check each off as you go; your progress is saved on this device.
Cursor is a standalone IDE; Copilot is a plugin. In VS Code, open Extensions (Marketplace), install "GitHub Copilot" and "GitHub Copilot Chat", then sign in with your GitHub account. VS Code and Git are already in your stack, so no new IDE needed.
Ide foundationGhost-text completion is on by default — Tab to accept. To approximate Cursor Tab's chained cross-file edits, enable "GitHub Copilot: Next Edit Suggestions" (NES) in VS Code settings; Tab through suggested next edits via the gutter arrow. Note: the completion-model picker (Settings > GitHub Copilot > Completions) only affects ghost text, not NES.
A few things to confirm
We flag these up front so nothing surprises you — a short list to double-check in GitHub Copilot as you go.
This guide may be incomplete — the generation was cut off. Double-check the steps against your current tool before relying on them.
- 10 items are flagged to confirm in GitHub Copilot — check the menu paths and field names as you go.
Paste-ready assets
Workflows from Cursor, rewritten to paste straight into GitHub Copilot.
.cursor/rules/*.mdc + saved Composer prompts
# Copilot Repo Instructions ## Refactor conventions - When renaming a symbol, update ALL references across the workspace, not just the open file. - For API migrations, thread new parameters through every call site and update type signatures. - Preserve existing import ordering and formatting; do not reformat untouched lines. - After any multi-file edit, list the files changed and summarize the diff terse. ## Style - Terse responses. No preamble. Show the plan, then the diffs. ## Context - Treat the whole repo as in scope for refactors (#codebase / @workspace). - Prefer Edit mode for scoped changes; use Agent mode for cross-cutting refactors that need terminal/test runs.
Same-day walkthrough
This sample was built for an example user. Yours gets built around how you work.
A 15–25 minute interview captures your workflows, then the guide is generated for you — same structure, your prompts, your projects, your gotchas. Nothing in your stack is changed or cancelled by any of it.