GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is GitHub's AI assistance product family across the GitHub platform, IDEs and the command line. It contains multiple separately documented capabilities, including code completion, Copilot Chat, IDE agent mode, code review, the CLI and the cloud agent.

AI capabilities recorded

• Copilot Cloud Agent

  Active · verified 2026-09-09

  GitHub Copilot cloud agent works autonomously on assigned software-development tasks in an ephemeral GitHub Actions-powered environment, making code changes on a branch and producing a draft pull request for human review.

• Copilot Automations

  Active · verified 2026-09-09

  Persistent, user-configured triggers and tool permissions that start GitHub Copilot cloud agent sessions automatically on a schedule or in response to repository events, without a person initiating each individual run.