GitHub Copilot Gets a Coding Agent: Autonomous Background Tasks and Pull Requests
At Microsoft Build 2025, GitHub introduced the Copilot coding agent — it takes tasks, runs in the background on GitHub Actions and opens PRs.
At Microsoft Build 2025, GitHub introduced the Copilot coding agent: an asynchronous, autonomous developer agent that accepts a task or issue, runs in the background via GitHub Actions, navigates the repository and opens a pull request with proposed changes.
The capability later reached general availability for all paid Copilot subscribers. Developers simply delegate a task to Copilot and review its output like a junior engineer's.
It marked AI coding's shift from completion and chat to asynchronous delegation — alongside Devin, Cursor and Codex, GitHub Copilot brought autonomous coding into the daily workflow of the world's largest developer platform.
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Source:GitHub 官方博客