Copilot coding agent now supports pull request templates

Copilot coding agent is our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. When Copilot coding agent finishes its work, it updates the body of its pull request with a summary of changes. Now, Copilot can follow the repository’s pull request template when writing the body.

Create a pull request template by adding a file called pull_request_template.md to your repository. If your repository includes multiple pull request templates, Copilot will pick the one best suited to the task.

To learn more about best practices while using coding agent, visit our coding agent documentation.