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GitHub Copilot evolves into autonomous agent with asynchronous code testing

GitHub adds agentic capabilities to its Copilot coding assistant, competing with other more asynchronous coding platforms.

GitHub Copilot Agent, first announced as Project Padawan back in February, will check, test and iterate code. It decides its workflow, analyzes the codebase using GitHub’s RAG code search, and continuously updates the pull request. Rodriguez said that GitHub Copilot Agent, like its previous name Padawan, learns and assists developers to free them up to work on their ideas without focusing so much on maintaining code.

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