Today, we’re introducing a new force to the GitHub Copilot experience, elevating Copilot from a complementary tool to a peer programmer with the power of AI agents:

– GitHub Copilot Agent Mode: When you enable agent mode in VS Code, Copilot extends its capabilities beyond your initial request, completing all necessary subtasks to achieve your primary goal. Agent mode allows Copilot to iterate on its own code, propose and execute terminal commands, and analyze and resolve runtime errors. Available today for VS Code Insiders.

– GitHub Copilot Edits: We’re also announcing the General Availability (GA) of Copilot Edits in VS Code. First announced at GitHub Universe, this feature 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 select the foundation language model that you prefer between: OpenAI’s GPT-4, o1, or o3-mini, Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and now, Gemini 2.0 Flash.

– Project Padawan: 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.

Throughout the GitHub Copilot experience, we focus on putting the human at the center of software development, leveraging AI to help with the tasks you don’t want to do, freeing up time for the things you do. We’re excited to get your feedback on these updates. Because in our quest to maximize developer productivity and happiness, it’s clear: Do. Or do not. There is no try.