GitHub just rolled out a new Agents tab, and it makes Copilot feel a lot more like a real contributor. Agent tasks now run at the repo level and show up as regular pull requests you can review, test, and merge like any other change.
This hands-on article walks through a small Node/Express repo where Copilot adds GitHub Actions CI and improves the README. The important part is what didn’t change: normal branches, normal diffs, normal review flow in Visual Studio.
If you’re curious how agentic AI fits into real GitHub workflows without breaking your process, this is worth a look.
Full article here:
Hands On with New GitHub Agents Tab for Repo-Level Copilot Coding Agent Workflows