Copilot coding agent, our asynchronous, autonomous developer agent, is now generally available for all paid Copilot subscribers.

Delegate a task to Copilot, and Copilot will open a draft pull request and work in the background in its own development environment. It does this through the power of GitHub Actions. Once Copilot is done, it will request a review from you, and you can ask Copilot to make changes by leaving comments on the pull request.

Copilot coding agent has already been used to create more than 1,000,000 pull requests since it launched in public preview in May.

Copilot coding agent can complete a wide range of software development tasks including:

  • Implementing new features
  • Fixing bugs
  • Addressing technical debt
  • Improving test coverage
  • Updating documentation

There are many ways to hand tasks to Copilot, including assigning it an issue, using the agents panel accessible on every page on GitHub, or using the Delegate to coding agent button in Visual Studio Code.

To learn more about Copilot coding agent, head to our documentation.

If you’re a Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise subscriber, an administrator will have to enable Copilot coding agent from the “Policies” page before you can use it.