The agent mode in GitHub Copilot can complete additional tasks that are necessary for the primary request to work.

New agent mode can iterate on its own code, infer tasks not specifed, recognize errors, and fix them automatically, GitHub said.

Here, too, GitHub Copilot succeeded where Microsoft Copilot failed. The challenge here is that I'm testing the AI's ability to create a script that knows about coding in AppleScript, the Chrome object model, and a little Mac-only third-party coding utility called Keyboard Maestro.

GitHub has announced a new tool called Agent Mode that will help developers generate code, look for bugs and fix them automatically.

Today, we are infusing the power of agentic AI into the GitHub Copilot experience,” said GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke.

New agent mode can iterate on its own code, infer tasks not specifed, recognize errors, and fix them automatically, GitHub said.

GitHub Copilot may be the single most useful AI companion I've used, but it's about to get a lot better with agents and other improvements.