Assigning Copilot ad-hoc tasks through Copilot chat
Published on 22 May 2025
You can now assign issues to GitHub Copilot in the background, not just from GitHub issues - but even ad hoc tasks while you’re working in Visual Studio Code. See how Copilot takes on a task to refactor components in Copilot Airways, allowing us to progress with other work.
More on the Copilot coding agent: http://gh.io/copilot/coding-agent