GitHub Copilot Agent Mode: Autonomous Multi-Step Coding Tasks Now Available in VS Code
Introduction GitHub released Copilot Agent Mode for VS Code on June 25, 2026 — moving GitHub Copilot from a suggestion-based assistant to a system that autonomously plans and executes multi-step coding tasks. The difference is not incremental. Traditional Copilot suggests code as you type. Agent Mode accepts a natural language task, decides which files to … Read more