In the Star Wars universe, many pilots have an astromech copilot. Luke had R2-D2 in the back of his X-Wing for example. As developers, we too have copilots. Although these are not as cool as R2, and don’t help us blow up the Death Star, they do help us with our day to day tasks like writing code.

Whilst copilots can be boring, Jim thought it would be fun to create one inspired by Star Wars to help him with important tasks, such as describing his Lego collection (Star Wars Lego of course), and helping him write code, all done in the style of a Jedi.

In this session, Jim will walk you through the steps to build your own copilot, using Microsoft.Extensiona.AI. By leveraging this SDK, your copilot can access an LLM of your choice from a range of cloud and on-device models such as Microsoft Phi and OpenAI GPT-4o. He'll also show the power of the MCP side, adding tools to research on Wookiepedia, or look at the scripts of the movies. And best of all, reply like Yoda, it can!

By the end of this session, you will be able to complete your apprenticeship and build your own open source AI copilot.