Move your team from Augment Code to GitHub Copilot.
Each person gets a short interview, then a personalized step-by-step guide showing exactly where their saved work, prompts, and projects land in GitHub Copilot — and the few things that need a manual step, walked through. You send one invite; nobody becomes the help desk, and nothing in Augment Code is changed or cancelled. Want to see where you’re paying for both first? Run the free audit.
Augment Chat and Copilot Chat (Ask mode) cover the same job: an in-editor conversational assistant that explains code, plans changes, and answers questions grounded in your codebase, with one-click apply of suggested blocks. A team on Copilot can retire Augment Chat: use the Copilot Chat panel (or inline chat) in VS Code / Visual Studio / JetBrains and pick 'Ask' from the mode dropdown. Translate Augment's 'Smart Apply' to Copilot's 'Apply in Editor' / Insert action on a code block. Reach for codebase context the Copilot way — add #codebase or @workspace and #file/#selection references in the prompt — to replace what Augment's Context Engine pulled in automatically. Keep Copilot; drop Augment Chat.
- Warning: Grounding is not automatic in Copilot the way it is in Augment: Augment Chat answers from the Context Engine's whole-repo index by default, whereas Copilot Ask mode prioritizes open files and explicit #codebase/@workspace/#file references — expect to scope context manually or answers may miss distant code.
- Warning: Copilot Ask mode is intentionally lighter-touch than its Agent mode: it suggests and you apply, so a multi-file change that Augment Chat could stage may need Copilot's Edit or Agent mode instead of Ask.
- Warning: Chat quota and slash commands differ by plan and surface: the Copilot Free tier caps chat (~50 messages/month) and the exact slash commands (/explain, /fix, /tests, /new, /doc, etc.) vary per IDE — confirm the team's paid plan covers expected chat volume before cancelling Augment.
Augment Agent and Copilot Agent mode are the same workflow: an in-IDE autonomous agent that breaks a request into a plan, edits/creates/deletes code across the workspace, runs terminal commands behind approval, and uses MCP tools. A team already on Copilot can drop the standalone Augment seat: in VS Code (or Visual Studio / JetBrains) open Copilot Chat and pick 'Agent' from the Ask/Edit/Agent dropdown, then give it the same natural-language tasks. Map the approval habit directly — Augment's default 'Agent' (pause before terminal/tool calls) corresponds to Copilot's per-command confirmation, and 'Agent Auto' corresponds to enabling Copilot's auto-approve/allow-list for terminal and tools. Re-point any Augment MCP servers at Copilot's MCP config (mcp.json / the tools picker) so the agent keeps the same database/Linear/Jira reach. Keep Copilot; cancel Augment.
- Warning: Augment's edge is its Context Engine (semantic index of the whole repo); Copilot agent mode reads the workspace and searches on demand rather than from a prebuilt index, so on very large monorepos prime it explicitly with #codebase, #file, or @workspace references instead of assuming it already knows distant files.
- Warning: Billing model differs: Augment meters pooled team 'credits', while Copilot agent usage as of 2026-06-01 is metered in GitHub AI Credits by the selected model's token consumption (legacy annual cohort still on the premium-request multiplier) — re-estimate run-rate before cutting over, don't assume parity.
- Warning: No project carries over automatically: there is nothing to export from Augment Agent itself, but re-create any Augment rules/guidelines as Copilot custom instructions (.github/copilot-instructions.md) so the agent keeps your conventions.