Run code generation in the background with GitHub Copilot coding agents | GitHub Checkout

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Categories: Product, Tools

Summary

GitHub Copilot's new coding agent runs in the cloud, automatically running tests, security scans, and code reviews before delivering a PR - saving founders time and reducing technical debt.

Key Takeaways

  1. GitHub Copilot's coding agent can run unit tests with Jest in the background, automating time-consuming tasks for founders.
  2. Copilot's code review feature automatically checks for issues like complex string concatenation, improving code quality before PR submission.
  3. The Copilot agent integrates with GitHub Advanced Security to scan for vulnerabilities and secret leaks, ensuring secure code generation for free.
  4. Copilot's model picker allows founders to choose between different AI models like GPT-5.2-Codex and Opus, optimizing for cost or capability.
  5. Copilot's cloud-based agent can run code generation tasks even when a developer's laptop is offline, providing hands-off productivity.
  6. Copilot's Agents panel enables assigning issues, prompting, and monitoring code generation tasks directly from GitHub, the IDE, or communication tools.

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Tim: GitHub Advanced Security has been around for quite a few years now and we’re kind of trying to bring all that magic and all that expertise to AI as well so you get the most trusted developer AI around. We’re going to continue to work on that and continue to iterate and drive forward here. Andrea: Well, hello, Tim. Welcome back to GitHub Checkout. Tim: Hey. It’s great to be here. It’s been too long. Andrea: It has been and a lot has changed. Please tell us, what is new with the GitHub Copilo...