GitHub Copilot Angles for Promotion From Assistant to Agent

GitHub Launches Its Coding Agent

Earlier this year, GitHub teased Project Padawan, its agent for assisting software engineers and act on their behalf to handle routine tasks like reviewing code, refactoring it, troubleshooting and more. Today, at the annual Microsoft Build conference, GitHub is launching its first iteration of this coding agent, dubbed the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent. This new software engineering (SWE) agent will be fully integrated into the GitHub experience …

GitHub Copilot angles for promotion from assistant to agent

Build: Agent mode arrives, for better or worse

GitHub adds agentic capabilities to Copilot in latest automation push

Developers will be able to assign agents to refactor code, improve test coverage, fix defects and modernize apps, among other tasks.

Microsoft announced that GitHub Copilot Chat is open source on VS Code and uses the MIT protocol. In the future, it will be integrated into the core of VS Code to create an AI editor. Only the front-end code is open source, and the back-end service still needs to be subscribed.

GitHub debuts Copilot agent to boost coding with secure oversight

GitHub has launched its Copilot asynchronous coding agent, integrated with VS Code, to speed up and secure software development for enterprise users.

GitHub Copilot: Meet the new coding agent

We are excited to introduce a new coding agent for GitHub Copilot. Embedded directly into GitHub, the agent starts its work when you assign a GitHub issue to Copilot or prompt it in VS Code. The agent spins up a secure and fully customizable development environment powered by GitHub Actions.  As the agent works, it pushes commits to a draft pull request, and you can track it every step of the way through the agent session logs. Having Copilot on…