Rubber Duck Thursdays - Copilot coding agent and Copilot agent mode
In this stream, Chris returns after Microsoft Build to dive deep into Copilot coding agent, demonstrating how to assign GitHub issues to Copilot and review the resulting pull requests.
Topics Covered
- Microsoft Build Recap — Highlights from the event including Copilot coding agent announcements, agent mode availability in Eclipse, Xcode, and IntelliJ editors, and GitHub Models updates
- GitHub Changelog Review — Three weeks of updates including Claude Sonnet 4 and Opus 4 in GitHub Copilot, Copilot Spaces, GPT-4o Copilot model update, coding agent on GitHub Mobile, secret scanning pattern expansions, and GitHub Enterprise Server 3.17
- Copilot Coding Agent Deep Dive — Live demo with Copilot Airways app showing how to assign issues to Copilot, review AI-generated pull requests for refactoring and CI/CD deployment, and iterate through code review comments
- MCP Integration with Notion — Demonstrating Model Context Protocol by connecting Copilot coding agent to a Notion MCP server to pull requirements from external tools and implement features automatically
- Issue Scoping Best Practices — Structuring GitHub issues with overview, problem statement, acceptance criteria, implementation details, and file pointers for optimal Copilot coding agent results
- Copilot Code Review — Using automated code review on pull requests with actionable suggestions for code quality
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