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Copilot Agent mode

What it is?

  • It's new assistant experience in github copilot.
  • It's like having and AI pair programmer that understand your current codebase, editor context and your goals
  • Key features
  • Deep understanding of your projects like code files, structure, open tabs and project dependency
  • you can ask it to write code, refactor, explain or debug with specific purpose in mind
  • Auto-action capability like creating new files, inserting new code and navigating across different file in project

How it different from regular chat

  • It's more project aware, regular copilot mostly focused on active tabs or few lines around cursor
  • Better support to work with multiple files, this is criticle for larger projects for debugging or refactoring
  • Takes automatic action

Best use cases

  • Writting new features
  • Understand larger code base
  • Task that involves multiple files