How to give copilot agent access to private Azure DevOps artifact nuget feed

[johnwc]

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When assigning an issue to copilot for agent mode work, it constantly fails to pull packages from our private feed in DevOps. How do we give access to copilot to pull those packages from our private feed?

[johnwc]

Thanks for asking Chat-GPT, but I already asked it and received almost the exact word for word response. But, it turns out that you can prepare the copilot environment for accessing private remote repos/endpoints utilizing the custom actions workflow Customizing the development environment for GitHub Copilot coding agent

[johnwc]

After more days of looking, it turns out that you can prepare the copilot environment for accessing private remote repos/endpoints utilizing the environment variables/secrets and using the custom actions workflow Customizing the development environment for GitHub Copilot coding agent

[nitish-maximus-isw]

Can you share the code example?

[johnwc]

@nitish-maximus-isw there is not specific code, you have to read the docs from the link I shared that explains how to do this. It's custom per environment.