GitHub has launched a powerful AI coding agent in Copilot that writes code, fixes bugs, and opens pull requests.

GitHub is launching an AI coding agent that can do things like fix bugs, add features, and improve documentation — all on a developer’s behalf. The agent is embedded directly into GitHub Copilot, and it will start working once a user assigns it a task, according to an announcement at Microsoft Build.

Microsoft said it will add an artificial intelligence coding agent from Google-backed startup Anthropic to its GitHub service. Coding agents can carry out software development tasks, such as fixing bugs,