With Project Padawan (external blog link) we're building an autonomous, asynchronous SWE agent integrated into issues and PRs on GitHub.com.
You give Copilot a task by assigning an issue to Copilot via the normal issues UI - and under the hood, this is an assignment to a bot called copilot-swe-agent.
You can then interact with the agent using pull request reviews - including the ability to @mention it as you can a human.
Supporting this well in the extension will include a bunch of different steps:
With Project Padawan (external blog link) we're building an autonomous, asynchronous SWE agent integrated into issues and PRs on GitHub.com.
You give Copilot a task by assigning an issue to Copilot via the normal issues UI - and under the hood, this is an assignment to a bot called
copilot-swe-agent.You can then interact with the agent using pull request reviews - including the ability to
@mentionit as you can a human.Supporting this well in the extension will include a bunch of different steps:
copilot-swe-agentcopilot-swe-agentcopilot-swe-agentcopilot-swe-agent@mentioningCopilot with the normal autocomplete experience