Visual Studio Integration for Copilot Coding Agent

GitHub's Copilot coding agent—an asynchronous, autonomous background agent that creates draft pull requests and works in the cloud—is now accessible directly from Visual Studio. This expansion brings the task delegation workflow to one of the most popular development environments.

How It Works

To delegate a task, developers simply:

• Enter a prompt in Copilot Chat within Visual Studio
• Click the new Send to Copilot Coding Agent button next to the Send button
• Confirm the action when prompted
• Copilot opens a pull request and begins working in the background
• The agent requests a review once the work is complete

Requirements and Availability

Subscription Tiers: Available to Copilot Pro, Copilot Pro+, Copilot Business, and Copilot Enterprise subscribers.

Software Requirements:

• Visual Studio 2026 with at least December Update 18.1.0
• The Enable Copilot Coding agent (preview) setting must be enabled in Visual Studio

Enterprise Configuration: Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise administrators must enable the Copilot coding agent from the "Policies" page before team members can use the feature.

Getting Started

To learn more about implementing this workflow, refer to the GitHub documentation on "Asking Copilot to create a pull request from Copilot Chat in Visual Studio 2026".