Collaborating with Copilot on GitHub.com: Issues, PRs, Reviews, and Coding Agent

GitHub Copilot has become a core part of the modern developer’s toolkit, offering much more than just code suggestions in your editor. Over the past couple of years, GitHub Copilot has expanded directly onto GitHub.com, bringing intelligent assistance right where developers collaborate, on issues, pull requests (PRs), and discussions. With these web-based features, GitHub Copilot moves beyond individual productivity and starts to shape how teams communicate, review code, and automate routine project tasks across the entire development life cycle.

While earlier chapters focused on GitHub Copilot’s experience inside IDEs, code completions, conversational chat, automated edits, and agent-driven changes, this chapter zooms in on what happens when you work in the browser. Here, GitHub Copilot isn’t just a sidekick for writing code, but also a helpful assistant for reviewing, summarizing...