Meet the GitHub Copilot app: Your new AI desktop assistant
GitHub gives a beginner-friendly tour of the GitHub Copilot app, positioning it as an agent-native desktop workspace for GitHub tasks. It shows how to start an agent session, hand off a real coding task, watch Copilot explore a codebase, run tests, and iteratively review and merge changes.
Overview
The video introduces the GitHub Copilot app as a desktop home for working with AI agents on GitHub, aimed at making agent-based coding less linear and less isolated from the rest of a developer's workflow.
What the tour covers
- Starting a Copilot session and assigning a real task
- Watching Copilot explore a repository/codebase
- Running tests as part of the workflow
- Reviewing code changes iteratively
- Using quick chat to run parallel agent sessions
- Using a browser canvas workflow, including “pick and polish”
- Automating parts of the workflow with “agent merge”
Chapters (from the video description)
- 00:00 Introducing the GitHub Copilot app
- 00:39 Understanding AI agents on your desktop
- 00:55 Navigating the home screen and project list
- 02:08 Running parallel agent sessions with quick chat
- 03:07 Reviewing code changes iteratively
- 03:33 How to use the browser canvas and pick and polish
- 05:11 Automating your workflow with agent merge
- 06:48 Summary