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GitHub Copilot/install-plugin

Install a plugin

One click opens Settings › Plugins with the install form pre-filled.

macos · windows · linux · sign-in required · updated 2026-07-13

Format

ghapp://plugins/install?source={source}

Try it

ghapp://plugins/install?source=my-plugin%40acmeOpen

What you supply

{source}

The plugin, as PLUGIN@MARKETPLACE.

Encode the @ — my-plugin%40acme.

Fills the form in. It does not install anything until somebody confirms in the app.

For a badge in a README, wrap it in the launcher, which encodes the source a second time:

https://github.com/copilot/app/launch?open=ghapp%3A%2F%2Fplugins%2Finstall%3Fsource%3Dmy-plugin%2540acme

Worth putting next to the Cursor and VS Code install badges — the three do the same job and none of them accept each other's payload.