GitHub Copilot now lets users create and edit images through conversational requests, bringing visual asset work into the same chat used for coding tasks. Results appear within the conversation and are saved into the user's project workspace, giving developers an image they can work with without manually importing it from another service.
The feature is available as a public preview across Copilot Enterprise, Copilot Business, Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Pro. Users can access it through Copilot CLI, VS Code or the GitHub Copilot app by opening a chat and describing the image they want. Image requests carry their own charge, separate from the selected chat model, with image tokens consuming the plan's AI credits.
That separate billing means image creation draws on the credit allowance even though users request it within their existing Copilot conversation. Behind the interaction, the reasoning model the user has selected invokes a specialized image tool running GPT Image 2.5 Flare. GitHub supports image requests both when beginning a conversation and while a coding task is already under way.
Users can choose to put a visible watermark reading "Made with AI" on pictures created or edited through Copilot. The watermark is disabled by default, so users must opt in to apply it. Owners of organizations and enterprises can also block image generation through Copilot model policies by switching off the image generation model.
GitHub describes the previous workflow as requiring users to leave Copilot, repeat their image requirements in another tool and bring the resulting asset back themselves. The new integration combines the conversational request, preview and workspace save within Copilot. Separately, GitHub introduced projects in its Copilot app to collect work, context, agents and results, including work spanning multiple repositories or involving designs and assets without a repository.
Earlier Copilot integrations brought AI requests into other working surfaces: Microsoft introduced an Excel COPILOT function to beta users that could classify text and produce analysis from spreadsheet cells. That Excel feature required a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription costing $30 per user monthly and participation in the Microsoft 365 Insider Beta Channel.
