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Summary
A GitHub blog introduction to GitHub Copilot coding agent, an asynchronous software engineering agent that is handed a task through a GitHub issue, VS Code or the agents panel, works in an ephemeral GitHub Actions environment, and delivers its work as a draft pull request that it iterates on in response to review comments. It describes the agent’s built-in security controls, contrasts it with IDE-based assistants and with synchronous agent mode, and explains how Model Context Protocol servers — Playwright and GitHub’s are built in — extend what it can do.