GitHub issues become an agent queue

Join us on GitHub Checkout as Tim Rogers demonstrates the capabilities of the GitHub Copilot coding agent. See how it goes beyond suggestions to automate tedious parts of the development lifecycle. Andrea and Tim explain how developers can leverage the agent to reduce boring work and focus more energy on creative and challenging tasks. — CHAPTERS — 00:00 Intro to GitHub Copilot Coding Agent 00:37 Assigning multiple issues to Copilot 01:25 Reviewing draft pull requests created by Copilot 02:36 Monitoring agent activity in GitHub 03:09 Using MCP to fetch external context 04:13 Triggering tasks from VS Code using Copilot Chat 05:37 Example use case: Improving test coverage 05:58 Availability and future access plans Stay up-to-date on all things GitHub by subscribing and following us at: YouTube: http://bit.ly/subgithub Blog: https://github.blog X: https://twitter.com/github LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/github Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/github TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@github Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GitHub/ About GitHub: It’s where over 100 million developers create, share, and ship the best code possible. It’s a place for anyone, from anywhere, to build anything—it’s where the world builds software. https://github.com