Hand a well-scoped issue to GitHub Copilot's cloud agent and review its PR

One heavy user's test: "Is this an issue that I would assign to a junior-mid level software engineer?" They break large projects into smaller tickets and assign them one at a time. Triage, they found, doesn't work well.

"It took a few attempts to understand that issues have to be overly descriptive and detailed. Once the issue had better instructions, copilot managed to successfully complete a legit pending issue from our backlog." Another user says it works on "any issue that has good custom instructions or agent md file steering the agent."

Assign the issue to Copilot. It creates a branch and a PR, works in GitHub Actions, and asks for your review when done. One user notes it always branches from the default branch, even if you name another.

To request changes, mention @copilot in a PR comment or push commits to the branch. A user: "you can keep adding comments to the pull request and copilot will continue working based on your comments."

GitHub's docs say Copilot PRs "deserve the same thorough review as any contribution." Actions don't run automatically on Copilot's pushes, so read the diff first, especially anything in .github/workflows/. If approvals are required, your approval doesn't count toward them; another reviewer must approve.