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GitHub Copilot coding agent

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Overview

GitHub Copilot’s autonomous coding agent works on GitHub issues, makes changes in a development environment, and opens pull requests.

Details

GitHub Copilot coding agent is an autonomous, asynchronous coding agent for GitHub Copilot. GitHub describes it as embedded in GitHub and accessible from VS Code. The Copilot cloud agent can be assigned to issues, starts sessions, works on pull requests, and can research, plan, make code changes, and create pull requests for review.

When to Use

Assign implementation work from GitHub issues to an asynchronous coding agent that can work toward a pull request. Use when you want an AI coding assistant that can research plan make code changes and create pull requests for human review.

Getting Started

  1. Review the GitHub Copilot product page for the main Copilot offering.
  2. Read the GitHub Docs concept page for the Copilot coding agent.
  3. Follow GitHub Docs’ getting-started guidance for Copilot agents on GitHub
  4. including assigning Copilot cloud agent to issues.

Key Features

  • •Autonomous coding agent for GitHub Copilot.
  • •Can work on GitHub issues and make changes in a development environment.
  • •Can open or work on pull requests for review.
  • •Asynchronous agent embedded in GitHub and accessible from VS Code.

Capabilities

  • •issue-to-pull-request automation
  • •code research and planning
  • •code changes
  • •pull request creation

Last updated Jul 1, 2026