Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with New Experimental GitHub Copilot 'Agent Skills' in VS Code

Visual Studio Code 1.108 introduces Agent Skills for GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to define reusable, domain-specific ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

Learn how to use GitHub Copilot to generate code, optimize code, fix bugs, and create unit tests, right from within your IDE ...
ZDNet

Copilot's Coding Agent brings automation deeper into GitHub workflows

Think about the relationship of Photoshop and, say, Google Photos. Photoshop can perform editing and retouching tasks on photos and graphic images. Google Photos, on the other hand, is used to view ...

Microsoft reshuffles teams to bolster GitHub as AI coding and agent wars heat up

GitHub, the dominant software development platforms, is responding to the rise of AI coding services and AI agents ...
TechRadar

Github's new Copilot AI wants to help you code and cut down on your tech debt

GitHub's latest Copilot agent is embedded straight into the platform It'll boot a secure dev environment and clone your repo before cracking on If you need to make further changes, just leave a ...
TechCrunch

GitHub’s Copilot goes beyond code completion, adds a chat mode and more

GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, ...
TechCrunch

GitHub Copilot can now tell developers when its suggestions match code in a public repository

GitHub Copilot has changed how developers write their code. However, it can also create issues when it creates code similar to what’s already available in another public repository. In 2022, GitHub ...