Today, we are infusing a new force throughout the GitHub Copilot experience, elevating Copilot from a pair to peer programmer with the power of AI agents:
– GitHub Copilot Agent Mode: When you toggle on agent mode in VS Code, Copilot goes beyond your initial request, completing all necessary subtasks to ensure your primary goal is achieved. Agent mode allows Copilot to iterate on its own code, propose and guide terminal commands, and analyze and resolve run-time errors. Available today for VS Code Insiders.
– GitHub Copilot Edits: We’re also announcing the GA for Copilot Edits in VS Code. First announced at GitHub Universe, it combines the best of inline edits and chat, allowing you to make changes across multiple files by prompting in natural language. And with multi-model choice, you can choose the foundation language model that you prefer between: OpenAI’s GPT-4o, o1, or o3-mini, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and now, Gemini 2.0 Flash.
– Project Padawan: Finally, a sneak peek at our autonomous SWE agent and how we envision these types of agents will fit into the GitHub user experience. When it’s released later this year, Project Padawan will allow you to directly assign issues to GitHub Copilot – using any of the GitHub clients – and have it produce fully-tested pull requests.
From code completions, chat, and multi-file edits to workspace and agents, Copilot puts the human at the center of the creative work that is software development. AI helps with the things you don’t want to do, so you have more time for the things you do.
We’re excited to get your feedback on all of the above. Because in our quest to maximize developer productivity and happiness, it’s: Do. Or do not. There is no try. ✌️