Delegate tasks to Copilot coding agent from Visual Studio

Source: GitHub Changelog

Overview

Copilot coding agent is an asynchronous, autonomous background agent. When you delegate a task to Copilot, it opens a draft pull request, works in the background in the cloud, and then requests a review from you.

Using the Copilot Coding Agent in Visual Studio

1. Open Copilot Chat in Visual Studio.
2. Enter your prompt.
3. Click the Send to Copilot Coding Agent button next to the Send button.
4. Copilot will ask you to confirm. After confirmation, it opens a pull request and starts working in the background.

Availability

The Copilot coding agent is available to the following subscription tiers:

• Copilot Pro
• Copilot Pro+
• Copilot Business
• Copilot Enterprise

For Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise subscribers, an administrator must enable Copilot coding agent from the “Policies” page before it can be used.

Requirements

• Update to the latest version of Visual Studio 2026 (at least December Update 18.1.0: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2026/release-notes#github-copilot-1).
• Enable the Enable Copilot Coding agent (preview) setting.

For more details, see “Asking Copilot to create a pull request from Copilot Chat in Visual Studio 2026” in the GitHub Docs.