Know your Copilot and your machine

Chamber 0, The entrance. Know the door before you go in.

Before anyone goes into a labyrinth, they look at the door. Before you plan anything with Copilot, find out what it can see, how much it can read at once, and what your machine can run.

Time: About 15 min
Python: Standard library
To clear: 9 of 12 points
Gold thread: Every point

Your scenario

A morning reconciliation folder: recon.py checks the internal book against the custodian's file. Same skill and same points in every scenario; your choice is remembered for the whole course.

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What you will do

1What Copilot can seeLearn
2The first sessionBe the tool layer · 8 points
3Measure your paste budgetExplore · 4 points
4Your machine cardWork context

What clearing it proves

Write a machine card with your shell, Python and paste budget, and paste it at the start of every session.

what Copilot sees
paste budgets
shell and Python
the machine card

You leave with machine_card.py, handed over once the server has graded your pass.

Part of Agent-Style Workflows with Copilot. Grading is deterministic and runs on the server.