Starting GitHub Copilot sessions
Choose your preferred way to start Copilot cloud agent sessions.
You can start Copilot cloud agent from several clients. Choose the one that fits your workflow:
- GitHub — issues, agents tab, dashboard, Copilot Chat, new repositories, and failing GitHub Actions runs
- GitHub Mobile
- IDEs — Visual Studio Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Visual Studio 2026
- REST API
- GitHub CLI
- GitHub MCP Server
- Jira
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- Azure Boards
- Linear
- Raycast
You can also start sessions automatically, on a schedule or in response to events such as an issue being opened, by setting up an automation. See AUTOTITLE.
Copilot will start working on the task in the background. Some entry points open a pull request automatically. In other cases, you can prompt Copilot to open a pull request, or create a pull request when Copilot finishes work, from the session logs.
For more information, see AUTOTITLE.