Microsoft’s GitHub has introduced the GitHub Copilot coding agent that can autonomously complete software development tasks in a secure environment.
OpenAI announced a cloud-based software engineering agent called Codex that can perform multiple software engineering tasks in parallel. Now, Microsoft’s GitHub is announcing a competitor to Codex. At Build 2025, GitHub announced the GitHub Copilot coding agent, which can implement a task or issue in the background with GitHub Actions.
The GitHub Copilot coding agent is the evolution of Project Padawan, which was introduced earlier this year. Developers can assign a GitHub issue to the Copilot coding agent on github.com, in GitHub Mobile, or through the GitHub CLI.
