Question

A developer on your team wants to delegate a well-defined bug fix to an AI teammate. They plan to assign a GitHub issue directly to Copilot so it can work autonomously in the background, create a branch, implement the changes, and open a pull request for human review without the developer actively driving each step in their editor. Which GitHub Copilot capability is designed for this delegation workflow?

Accepted Answer

The Copilot coding agent, which can be assigned an issue and works asynchronously to produce a pull request

Answer

Copilot inline code completions that suggest the next lines as the developer types

Answer

Copilot Chat's /explain command run against the affected file

Answer

The github.dev web editor opened from the repository