Last month, we launched GitHub Copilot coding agent (Public Preview), allowing users with Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise to delegate tasks to Copilot to work on in the background.

Users can delegate a task to Copilot by assigning an issue or asking Copilot to open a pull request from Copilot Chat. Copilot picks up the task and works in the background, using its own secure cloud-based development environment powered by GitHub Actions. Once Copilot is done, it’ll tag you for review.

Today, we’re making it easier to get started with this new agent.

For users with access to Copilot coding agent, the agent is now available in all repositories by default. Organization owners and enterprise administrators (for organization-owned repositories) and users (for user-owned repositories) can still choose to opt out at any time. (Before this change, each repository had to be explicitly opted in.)

If you have a Copilot Enterprise license, an administrator will still have to turn on Copilot coding agent from the “Policies” page before you get access. This means that Copilot Enterprise administrators still have full control over whether their users can use the agent.