docs/content/copilot/concepts/context/spaces.md

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About GitHub Copilot Spaces	Spaces	Understand how organizing and sharing context with {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces %} can improve your {% data variables.copilot.copilot_chat_dotcom_short %} results and help your teammates.	Anyone with a {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} license can use {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %}.	feature copilot	Copilot	/copilot/using-github-copilot/copilot-spaces/about-organizing-and-sharing-context-with-copilot-spaces /copilot/concepts/about-organizing-and-sharing-context-with-copilot-spaces /copilot/concepts/spaces	concepts	Learn about Copilot

{% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces %} let you organize the context that {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} uses to answer your questions. {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %} can include repositories, code, pull requests, issues, free-text content like transcripts or notes, images, and file uploads. You can ask {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} questions grounded in that context, or share the space with your team to support collaboration and knowledge sharing.

Why use {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces %}?

Whether you’re working solo or collaborating across a team, {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %} help you make {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} more useful.

With {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces %} you can:

• Get more relevant, specific answers from {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %}.
• Stay in flow by collecting what you need for a task in one place.
• Reduce repeated questions by sharing knowledge with your team.
• Support onboarding and reuse with self-service context that lives beyond chat history.

Your spaces stay in sync as your project evolves. {% data variables.product.github %} files and other {% data variables.product.github %}-based sources added to a space are automatically updated as they change, making {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} an evergreen expert in your project.

How are {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %} different from knowledge bases?

{% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %} are optimized for specific tasks and grounded conversations. Because context in {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %} is scoped, {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %}'s responses are more accurate and relevant.

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	{% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces %}	Knowledge bases
Who can create	Anyone with a {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} license	Organization owners
Owned by	Organizations or individual users	Organizations
Content type	Entire {% data variables.product.github %} repositories, specific files, pull requests and issues, uploaded files including images, text files, rich documents, and spreadsheets, and free-text content	Markdown files hosted in {% data variables.product.github %}
Context handling	Limited in size, which guarantees higher response quality given the focused selection	Unlimited, but that comes with reduced response quality

{% endrowheaders %}

Who can use {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %}?

Anyone with a {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} license, including {% data variables.copilot.copilot_free_short %}, can create and use {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %}.

{% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %} can belong to a personal account or to an organization. Spaces owned by an organization can be shared with other organization members or kept private to the person who created the space.

Where can I use {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %}?

You can use {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces %} in {% data variables.copilot.copilot_chat_dotcom_short %}. You can also leverage {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces %} in your IDE, using the {% data variables.product.github %} MCP server in your IDE to access context from your spaces.

How does using {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %} affect my usage?

Questions you submit in a space count as {% data variables.copilot.copilot_chat_short %} requests.

• If you're a {% data variables.copilot.copilot_free_short %} user, this usage counts toward your monthly chat limit.
• If you use {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %} with a premium model, this usage counts toward your premium usage quota. Every question you submit to a premium model counts as one premium request, multiplied by the model's multiplier. For information about the multipliers applied to each model, see AUTOTITLE.

Next steps

To start using {% data variables.copilot.copilot_spaces_short %}, see AUTOTITLE.