GitHub Copilot CLI Configuration for Banner

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Open ~/.copilot/config.json file
Edit the config "banner": "always":

{
  "banner": "always",
  "render_markdown": true,
  "model": "claude-sonnet-4.6",
  "reasoning_effort": "medium"
}

then the pretty banner will be always shown when you run copilot command in terminal:

┌──                                                                         ──┐
│                                                           ▄██████▄          │
    Welcome to GitHub                                   ▄█▀▀▀▀▀██▀▀▀▀▀█▄
    █████┐ █████┐ █████┐ ██┐██┐     █████┐ ██████┐     ▐█ ██   ▐▌      █▌
   ██┌───┘██┌──██┐██┌─██┐██│██│    ██┌──██┐└─██┌─┘     ▐█▄█   ▄██▄    ▄█▌
   ██│    ██│  ██│█████┌┘██│██│    ██│  ██│  ██│      ▄▄███████▀▀███████▄▄
   ██│    ██│  ██│██┌──┘ ██│██│    ██│  ██│  ██│     ████     ▄  ▄     ████
   └█████┐└█████┌┘██│    ██│██████┐└█████┌┘  ██│     ████     █  █     ████
    └────┘ └────┘ └─┘    └─┘└─────┘ └────┘   └─┘     ▀███▄            ▄███▀
│                              CLI Version 0.0.412      ▀▀████████████▀▀      │
└──                                                                         ──┘