microsoft / microsoft/GitHubCopilotPanel

Upload the intro video to get an inline player

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Description

Drag-and-drop target for the intro video. Do not close this issue until the README shows a player.

Why this issue exists

GitHub only renders an inline video player for assets served from user-attachments. Those URLs are minted only by the web uploader, and the upload endpoint rejects token auth (POST /upload/policies/assets returns 422 without a browser session and CSRF token), so this one step cannot be automated.

Verified against the real README rendering pipeline — every one of these renders as a plain link, not a player:

Attempt Result
<video> tag in markdown stripped by the sanitiser
<video> with <source> child stripped
release download URL plain link
raw.githubusercontent.com URL plain link
/raw/ and /blob/ URLs plain link

What to do — about 30 seconds

  1. Download GitHubCopilotPanel-Demo.mp4 (4.1 MB) if you do not already have it locally
  2. Click into the comment box below
  3. Drag the .mp4 file into it and wait for the upload bar to finish
  4. GitHub inserts something like https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/<uuid>
  5. Comment it — that posts the URL where it can be picked up
  6. The README then gets that bare URL on its own line, replacing the poster image

Do not wrap the URL in markdown link syntax. A bare URL on its own line is what triggers the player; [text](url) gives you a link.

Where it goes

README.md, in the ## Watch first section, replacing:

[![Watch the intro video](Images/GitHubCopilotPanel-VideoPoster.png)](https://github.com/...)

Until then the poster image stands in, linked to the release asset. See docs/PREVIEW.md.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with README.md and the ## Watch first section, using docs/PREVIEW.md for the rendering context. Drag GitHubCopilotPanel-Demo.mp4 into the issue comment box, post the user-attachments URL, then replace the poster image there with the bare URL. Done means the rendered README shows an inline video player.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
github
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Clearly specified
Newbie friendliness
85/100

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