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 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.

• Copilot Code Review

  Active · verified 2026-09-12

  AI review of proposed code changes that publishes pull request review comments and suggested changes on GitHub.

• Copilot Autofix

  Active · verified 2026-09-18

  An expansion of GitHub code scanning that automatically generates a suggested code fix, with explanatory text, for eligible CodeQL code scanning alerts on pull requests and the default branch. Suggestions are published automatically as comments on relevant alerts; applying a fix, or creating a branch, commit and draft pull request from a suggestion, is a user action. GitHub documents Copilot Autofix as distinct from agentic autofix, which explores the repository, validates a fix and opens a pull request through Copilot cloud agent.

• Copilot Cloud Agent

  Active · verified 2026-09-18

  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.