GitHub introduced an Agents panel that enables developers to assign work to the Copilot coding agent from any GitHub page via a prompt. The panel appears as a pop-up overlay for starting new tasks, tracking existing tasks, and reviewing pull requests without leaving the current GitHub context. Copilot handles low-to-medium complexity coding tasks in the background and notifies the user for review when work is complete. Prior task triggers included GitHub Issues, the Visual Studio Code pull request extension, or apps integrated via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The Agents button is located on the right of the navigation bar.
The company's new "agents panel" allows developers to delegate tasks to the AI-powered Copilot from any page on via a prompt, rather than navigating over to GitHub Issues - a process it says is "breaking your flow." Earlier this year, GitHub unveiled a new coding agent designed to tackle "low-to-medium complexity" tasks. The aim with the new "mission control" tool is to help developers better manage AI.
A pop-up panel will allow developers to work with such AI agents more easily by delegating coding tasks and tracking progress wherever a developer is working in GitHub, with the Copilot agent working in the background before tagging the user for review when complete. "If the past year has underscored anything, it's that AI agents are becoming a bigger part of developers' day-to-day workflows," staff product manager Tim Rogers wrote in a .
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