In MS VS Code 1.97
Copilot is already built into the program and is not installed as an extension. Voice input is still a separate extension (VS Code Speech).

The o3-mini model has been added for all plans, even the free one, which has 50 requests/month (news). However, it didn't appear automatically for me; I had to figure out the settings:

In the preview, there's a feature to set context from a Markdown file; here, you need to create it in .github/copilot-instructions.md

Also, people have discovered that you will not be able to name your variables "sexHere" and "sexThere," as Copilot intentionally stops working with code that contains predefined forbidden words (discussion).

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