These articles provide how-to information for using Copilot coding agent. For an overview of Copilot coding agent, see the articles under Concepts for GitHub Copilot coding agent.
GitHub Copilot coding agent - GitHub Docs
Find out how Copilot can work on GitHub issues and raise pull requests for you to review.
Asking GitHub Copilot to create a pull request
You can ask Copilot to create a pull request from many places, including GitHub Issues, the agents panel, Copilot Chat, the GitHub CLI, and agentic coding tools and IDEs with Model Context Protocol (MCP) support.
Tracking GitHub Copilot's sessions
You can use the agents panel or page, Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, the GitHub CLI, Raycast and session logs to track Copilot's progress and understand its approach.