Assign issues to GitHub Copilot from the GitHub mobile app
The GitHub Copilot coding agent isn’t just a desktop experience—you can assign issues and track Copilot’s progress directly from the GitHub Mobile app or a mobile browser, making it useful during a commute or whenever you’re away from your laptop.
The video demonstrates the following mobile-first workflow using the ‘Copilot Airways’ demo repository:
- Navigating the issues backlog and assigning a GitHub Pages deployment task to Copilot directly from the GitHub Mobile app
- Copilot acknowledging the assignment with the 👀 emoji reaction and immediately creating a pull request
- Switching to github.com in a mobile browser to open the pull request and tap ‘View session’
- Reviewing how Copilot explored existing CI workflow files, formed a plan, updated configuration files, and modified the existing workflow to add the GitHub Pages deployment step
- Copilot running linters, builds, and tests as quality checks during the agentic loop to ensure the CI pipeline remains healthy
- Using the ‘Approve and Run’ button on mobile to authorize GitHub Actions execution against the AI-generated changes
- Marking the pull request as ready for review and merging once checks pass—all without touching a laptop
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