# GitHub Copilot App

> GitHub Copilot App is an officially published AI tool from GitHub. Anomity scores its risk at 10 out of 100 (low).

- **Canonical URL:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/agent/github-copilot-app
- **Kind:** AI tool
- **Publisher:** GitHub
- **Trust level:** official
- **Risk score:** 10/100 (low)
- **Website:** https://github.com/features/copilot
- **Last updated:** 2026-11-01
- **JSON:** https://catalog.anomity.ai/api/entries/agent/github-copilot-app

## Description

GitHub Copilot desktop app for agent sessions, automations and chats across repositories

## Why it scored 10

The score starts at the catalog's neutral base of 50 and moves only through the signals below. The formula is published at https://catalog.anomity.ai/about — there is no model and no hidden heuristic.

| Signal | Contribution | Severity | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Published by the vendor | -40 | trust offset |  |

Clamped result: **10/100**, band **low**.

## Configuration surface

Files this tool reads on the host. Anything written here changes what the agent does next.

- `github-copilot-app-preferences` — App preferences on macOS, skills version marker on Windows (presence; account read from the Copilot user cache at snapshot assembly)
    - win32: `${APPDATA}\com.github.githubapp\app-skills\.app-skills-version`
    - darwin: `${HOME}/Library/Preferences/com.github.githubapp.plist`
- `github-copilot-app-skills` — Skills bundled with and added to the app
- `github-copilot-app-linux-package` — Installed Linux package desktop entry (presence)
    - linux: `/usr/share/applications/GitHub Copilot.desktop`

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- [Agent Orchestrator](https://catalog.anomity.ai/agent/agent-orchestrator) — risk 10 (low)
- [Agent Zero](https://catalog.anomity.ai/agent/agent-zero) — risk 10 (low)
- [AIChat](https://catalog.anomity.ai/agent/aichat) — risk 10 (low)

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Source: Anomity Security Database (https://catalog.anomity.ai/). Scoring methodology: https://catalog.anomity.ai/about. Machine-readable index: https://catalog.anomity.ai/llms.txt · https://catalog.anomity.ai/openapi.json