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GitHub Unveils New Copilot Features to Streamline Global Coding Tasks
To further empower businesses worldwide, including in India, GitHub announced new features and enhancements to Copilot on Friday, aimed at streamlining coding tasks based on an organization’s unique workflows. The new tools include agentic capabilities for making changes across multiple files, next-edit suggestions that predict and execute the next logical edit, and the ability to store and share customized instructions for Copilot directly within the editor, according to the Microsoft-owned platform.
GitHub also unveiled a first look at a new autonomous SWE agent and announced gthe eneral availability of Copilot Edits, availability of Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash and OpenAI’s o3-mini for Copilot Chat and Edits, and enterprise support for Copilot Workspace.
“India’s surging developer community will soon be joined by intelligent, increasingly advanced AI agents acting as peer programmers for everyday tasks, freeing developers to drive more innovation”, said GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke.
“If Indian businesses move quickly to empower their developers with these AI agents, they won’t just gain a major competitive advantage in the global market—they’ll also accelerate digital and economic progress, cementing India’s position as a leader on the world stage”, he mentioned.
Copilot Edits is now generally available, enabling users to specify a set of files to be edited and then use natural language to ask Copilot what changes should be made.
It also makes inline changes directly in the user's workspace, across multiple files, and with a user interface (UI) designed for fast iteration.
The platform also unveiled its plans for an autonomous agent to independently handle entire tasks at the developer’s direction called 'Project Padawan'.
This envisions a future where developers can assign tasks to Copilot, allowing the AI to complete the work autonomously, with developers reviewing the results afterward. GitHub is used by over 150 million developers, including more than 90% of Fortune 100 companies, and over 77,000 organizations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
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