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1// VS Code + GitHub Copilot — AI-Powered TypeScript
2import { FastifyInstance } from 'fastify';
3import { createCopilotClient } from '@github/copilot-sdk';
4
5const copilot = createCopilotClient({
6  model: 'gpt-4o',
7  agentMode: true
8});
9
10async function suggestRefactor(code: string) {
11  return await copilot.complete(code);
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✓ Server running at http://localhost:3000 · TypeScript compiled · 0 errors
⎇ main ✦ Copilot TypeScript ESLint 0 errors · 0 warnings Ln 11, Col 46 UTF-8 spaces: 2
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// Copilot Chat — Inline Ask
function parseUserData(raw: unknown) {
  return raw; // TODO
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Add Zod validation schema and parse with safeParse(). Apply changes?
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}
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