Use the Github Copilot as LLM provider

[SohamTilekar]

If Some One Have access to the GitHub Copilot Then We Should Be able to use it as a LLM provider, as it is free for the students Then can have to use it like it provides the o1 mini, 4o, 4, etc.

[mamoodi]

Hi there. Copilot still uses an LLM underneath to work. You need API access to that LLM to run OpenHands so this won't work. Unless you have free access to an LLM API which would be surprising.

[SohamTilekar]

Like this Using the Unofficial API, as how VS-code, Zed makes the Call the the GitHub Copilot End point for chat & other things we can Also do that.
https://github.com/B00TK1D/copilot-api/blob/main/api.py

[enyst]

The example API call you linked looks like a call from an editor's auto-complete, with a single string as prompt and a one-line response? I'm sorry, I don't see how that will work with openhands, because we have a much more complex prompt, system and tools, so best case, you'd make many calls to get a single response. But also copilot sends its own prompt, likely making the LLM ignore ours.

openhands doesn't ask LLMs for a line of code, and we don't ask just python code; we ask them for complex responses calling tools to perform actions.
(e.g. some actions are running bash, not outputting python)

If you want to see for yourself, try it: you can run openhands, see the prompt in logs, merge all context into a single string, and send it via that project to see what it does.

[SohamTilekar]

theis this also have the chat api