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Delegate to Copilot coding agent from Visual Studio

GitHub announced a way to delegate work to its background coding agent from Visual Studio.

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GitHub describes a flow for delegating tasks to Copilot coding agent from Visual Studio. The agent works in the background, opens a draft pull request and requests review.

The announcement lists a specific Visual Studio version, a preview setting and an eligible Copilot subscription as prerequisites. Availability and requirements may have changed; consult the official source.