Managing issues and pull requests with the GitHub Copilot app

Pick up an issue, direct an agent to implement changes, and land a pull request—all without leaving the GitHub Copilot app.

¿Quién puede utilizar esta característica?

GitHub Copilot app is available with GitHub Copilot para empresas and GitHub Copilot para grandes empresas plans (if the organization has enabled preview features and CLI de Copilot), and via waitlist for Copilot Pro de GitHub and GitHub Copilot Pro+ plans.

En este artículo

Nota:

The GitHub Copilot app is in Versión preliminar técnica and subject to change.

  • Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users — Download and install from the GitHub Copilot app repository if your organization or enterprise has enabled preview features and CLI de Copilot.
  • Copilot Pro and Copilot Pro+ users — To request access, join the waitlist.

Browsing your inbox

Click Inbox in the sidebar to see your issues and pull requests in one place. The inbox is organized into sections—by default, All, Active, Review requests, and Done. You can edit the default sections or add new ones with your own filters. Use the search bar within any section to find items by keyword or qualifiers like label:bug.

Starting a session from an issue

  1. In the Inbox, find the issue you want to work on, then click it to view its details.
  2. Click Start a session. The app creates a new session with the issue context already loaded and automatically selects Plan mode.
  3. The agent proposes a plan. Review the plan, then let the agent start working or have it propose changes that you can apply manually.
  4. Once you approve, the agent creates a branch, implements the changes, and opens a pull request for you to review.

Reviewing a pull request

  1. Click a pull request in the Inbox to see its overview—including the summary, CI check results, and review activity.
  2. Switch to the Files changed tab to review the diff.
  3. Click Create session to start a session for the pull request. Within the session, you can leave review comments on the diff, or ask the agent to make changes.
  4. Once done reviewing in the session, you can go back to the pull request detail view and click Review at the top to submit a review.

You can also open the pull request in your browser or in another IDE directly from the app.

Responding to a review

You can respond to review comments and resolve failing CI checks in the GitHub Copilot app.

  1. Open a pull request.
  2. Scroll down the page to see review comments on your PR. To ask an agent to resolve a comment, click Fix.
  3. At the bottom of the page, view the status of CI checks. To ask an agent to fix failing checks, click Fix failing checks.

Merging a pull request

When you want to merge a pull request, you can enable agent merge at the top of the app. Agent merge will prompt the workspace's Copilot session to read your pull request, fix what is blocking it, and merge it as soon as GitHub allows. It runs in the background, survives app restarts, and turns itself off once your pull request is merged.