Copilot coding agent now starts work 50% faster

We’ve optimized 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 or mentioning @copilot in a pull request comment.

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, and you get a faster feedback loop asking Copilot to iterate on a pull request with @copilot.

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