Use Copilot agents

Give Copilot a task and let it work autonomously in your editor, editing files across your project and running commands until the task is complete.

Have Copilot research a task and draft an implementation plan for your review before any code is changed.

Delegate a self-contained subtask to a separate agent that works in its own context and reports back to your main chat session.

You can create specialized agents with tailored expertise for specific development tasks, and invoke them from chat in your IDE.

Start and track Copilot cloud agent sessions from Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse, and Visual Studio.