Copilot coding agent now starts work 50% faster

Source: GitHub Changelog

We’ve optimized the Copilot coding agent so it now starts work 50 % faster.

You can hand work to Copilot coding agent in many ways, including:

• Assigning an issue to Copilot
• Entering a prompt in the Agents tab in your repository: Ask Copilot to create a pull request from the Agents tab or panel
• Mentioning @copilot in a pull request comment: Ask Copilot to make changes to an existing PR

Copilot works in its own cloud‑based development environment, makes changes, runs your tests, and then pushes.

With shorter startup times, Copilot can create pull requests from scratch more quickly, giving you a faster feedback loop when iterating on a pull request with @copilot.

To learn more, head to our Copilot coding agent documentation.