title	GitHub Copilot Business Labs
description	Local bilingual learning repository for a fictitious Canadian French grant application and GitHub Copilot Business fundamentals
ms.date	2026-10-14
ms.topic	overview

Français canadien

Purpose

This repository contains a non-official, local prototype of a grant application experience. It is a learning environment, not a government service. Use invented information only. The prototype does not create, send, receive, assess, or decide an official application.

The repository also supports a bilingual GitHub Copilot Business fundamentals course. The release contract is dated 2026-10-14, has identifier RLS-COPILOT-BUSINESS-2026-10-14, and is currently version 1.0.0. Product facts can change after that date.

Application and lab

The Next.js application presents a Canadian French public-service-style journey. A learner can check a fictitious scenario, create a local draft, attach a fictitious PDF, review the application, simulate submission, and advance through simulated statuses.

The application interface remains in Canadian French. The bilingual learning entry point is /lab; the complete current courses are /lab/en and /lab/fr. Each course links its exercises to the local application and keeps the same stable module anchors when switching languages. The local prototype is distinct from GitHub's official product documentation and from any official grant submission process.

Prerequisites

Use a current Node.js and npm installation. The baseline captured on 2026-10-14 used Windows on Arm64, Node.js v26.7.0, npm 12.0.1, VS Code 1.141.0, and Playwright 1.61.1. The repository also uses locally installed Playwright browsers for its full browser matrix.

The GitHub Copilot exercises require a GitHub Copilot Business seat, the organization policies selected by the facilitator, an authenticated VS Code session, and the GitHub Copilot extension. The extension version was not locally discoverable when the baseline was recorded, so verify it before each facilitated delivery.

Before discussing commercial, legal, privacy, or model terms, identify the purchasing channel and governing agreement. GitHub-direct terms do not govern Microsoft purchasing channels, and model-provider footnotes can impose different conditions even when a model is visible in the client.

Installation

Install the locked dependency graph from the repository root:

npm ci

Start the development server and open http://localhost:3000:

npm run dev

On Windows, the helper accepts optional -HostName and -Port parameters and detects an existing project server:

pwsh ./Start-App.ps1

Commands

Run the documentation and release-contract checks:

npm run check:docs
npm run check:release -- --scope contract
npm run check:publication
npm run test:publication

Run lint, unit tests, the static export, and browser tests:

npm run lint
npm run test
npm run build
npm run test:e2e

Serve an already built static export with the same server used by Playwright:

npm run serve:e2e

Regenerate the current presentation and PDF pairs, then validate their rendering contract, when the source generator changes:

npm run generate:decks
npm run check:deck-render

The browser configuration runs npm run build && npm run serve:e2e automatically. On Windows, the full helper runs lint, unit tests, build, and E2E tests in sequence:

pwsh ./Test-All.ps1

Architecture

The project uses Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript 6, Dexie, IndexedDB, Zod, Vitest, Playwright, and axe-core. Next.js produces a static export in out/. There is no application backend, account system, authentication flow, telemetry integration, upload endpoint, or official transmission service.

Domain schemas and state rules live under src/lib/domaine/. Browser storage adapters live under src/lib/stockage/. Pages use the App Router under src/app/, and reusable interface code lives under src/components/. Playwright tests exercise the production static export rather than relying on the development server.

Routes and workflow

The current static application exposes these route families:

Route	Purpose
/	Prototype overview and safety boundary
/programme	Fictitious program details
/programme/admissibilite	Local eligibility scenario
/demandes	Local draft dashboard and erasure control
/demandes/nouvelle	Draft creation
/demandes/dossier?id=...	Local application summary
/demandes/dossier/etape/1?id=...	Steps 1 through 5 of the local assistant
/demandes/dossier/confirmation?id=...	Simulated submission confirmation
/demandes/dossier/suivi?id=...	Simulated status tracking
/aide/document-pdf	Fictitious PDF guidance
/aide/donnees-locales	Local data guidance
/aide/statuts-simules	Simulated status guidance
/accessibilite	Accessibility scope and limits
/confidentialite	Prototype privacy notice
/nous-joindre	Non-official contact guidance
/service-indisponible	Local failure state
/lab	Bilingual learning entry point
/lab/en	English GitHub Copilot Business fundamentals lab
/lab/fr	Canadian French GitHub Copilot Business fundamentals lab

Query-string identifiers select browser-local records. They are not server identifiers and do not make a draft available on another browser or origin.

Local data and privacy

Dexie stores drafts and fictitious PDF blobs in the IndexedDB database portail-aide-financiere. Data is scoped to the browser profile and exact origin used to open the prototype. Changing device, browser, port, hostname, or publication address can therefore show a different local data set.

Use Effacer les données de démonstration on /demandes to clear this prototype's drafts and fictitious PDFs after confirmation. Browser settings can also remove IndexedDB data without notice. Do not enter personal, confidential, protected, or production information. No retention duration is asserted for either this browser prototype or GitHub Copilot Business; consult the current applicable service terms before a real deployment or delivery.

Static export and hosting

The default build exports directory indexes under /github-copilot-business-labs. The intended address is https://devopsabcs-engineering.github.io/github-copilot-business-labs/; preparation does not mean that this site has been published. scripts/serve-static-export.mjs mounts out/ at that same base on 127.0.0.1:3000, using ordinary directory indexes without RSC rewrites. Export preparation copies only the four current decks and materializes the flattened RSC alias files needed by ordinary static hosts. Fonts are bundled locally.

The existing domain E2E suite builds root mode with NEXT_PUBLIC_BASE_PATH set to an empty string. The separate Pages suite uses the production subpath:

npm run test:pages

The Pages workflow accepts manual dispatch only. Build, docs, release, publication, lint, unit, browser, and production dependency audit gates must pass. Deployment also requires the dispatch deploy input and repository variable PAGES_RELEASE_APPROVED=true. Keep that variable unset while approval is pending; configure required reviewers on the github-pages environment before enabling it. Only out/ is uploaded. No workflow has been run as part of preparing this candidate.

Accessibility

The prototype targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA principles without claiming certification. It includes semantic headings, explicit labels, visible focus, keyboard navigation, announced errors, reduced-motion handling, and text that does not rely on colour alone. Automated tests use axe-core and check horizontal overflow across desktop browser profiles and a 320-pixel viewport.

Manual keyboard, zoom, reading-order, and assistive-technology review remains required before publication. The presentation sources also require PowerPoint Accessibility Checker and human reading-order review before distribution.

Learning assets

Current release artifacts:

• English GitHub Copilot Business fundamentals source
• English GitHub Copilot Business fundamentals PDF
• Canadian French GitHub Copilot Business fundamentals source
• Canadian French GitHub Copilot Business fundamentals PDF

This is a sanitized derivative of an internal learning prototype, not a fork or mirror of its history. Two historical source PDFs are intentionally excluded. Internal planning, local configuration, credentials, and original Git history are not distributed. The four current artifacts were regenerated with public lab links; their curriculum claims retain the dated source record in the manifest.

Contributing

Keep changes focused and preserve the prototype's non-official, fictitious, local-only boundary. Do not add a backend, authentication, telemetry, real upload, or official submission wording without an explicit architecture and privacy review. Preserve exact code identifiers, commands, routes, and French UI labels when updating learning material.

Update both READMEs when shared facts change. Run npm run check:docs, lint, focused tests, and the release-contract check before review. Structural parity does not prove translation quality, so changes to either language also require a fluent semantic review.

Freshness

Repository and GitHub Copilot product facts were checked on 2026-10-14. Before every release, recheck the sources and ownership rules in assets/copilot-business-release-manifest.yml. Recheck pricing, AI-credit allowances and token-priced usage, purchasing channels, model availability and provider footnotes, preview features, feature matrices, agent limits, MCP policy, metrics coverage, and service-specific privacy terms at the cadence assigned in that manifest.

Do not copy a dated commercial or product claim into the durable course body. Do not add an exact retention duration until it has been verified against the live terms that apply to the purchasing channel and service surface.

Known caveats

The 2026-10-14 release is checked through lint, unit tests, static export, browser tests, deck generation and rendering, README parity, and the release contract. A Turbopack development-server hydration failure was isolated during Phase 1; production static-export E2E coverage passes through npm run build && npm run serve:e2e. This is a test-architecture workaround, not a claimed application-code fix.

An earlier baseline did not establish facilitator edit-and-save behaviour. That check, presentation/PDF assistive-technology review, and fluent bilingual review remain pending. Local tool discovery alone does not complete them. The original production audit reported one critical and three high findings; run npm audit --omit=dev against this candidate. Static hosting is not a waiver. Dependency remediation must use the supported dependency-upgrade workflow. No public release or deployment is approved, and no passing CI status is asserted.