GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: Microsoft brings the agent directly into the GitHub workflow
In one sentence GitHub Copilot enters agent mode: reads repo context, writes code, runs CI tests, and opens a complete PR autonomously, natively integrated in GitHub.
GitHub announces that Copilot is no longer just an assistant for completing code: it becomes a true agent capable of resolving issues in complete autonomy. You assign an issue to Copilot as you would with a colleague, and it reads the repository's code, understands the context, writes the solution, runs automated tests in CI, and opens a pull request with all the work done. It is the first Microsoft coding agent fully integrated into the existing GitHub workflow, without needing external tools. The developer reviews and approves, the AI does the work.
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GitHub, Microsoft
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GitHub Copilot Coding Agent
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