Evan Boyle

Ran `git pull` on the GitHub App repo 30 minutes ago. Just did it again and smiled during the fast forward with thousands of lines of changes. A joy to work with people that truly care.

Canvases: The GitHub Copilot App Game-Changer for Agents Get the app: gh.io/app Discover the hidden power of GitHub Copilot's canvases — custom, interactive sidebars that transform how you work with agents. I walk through building a personal hub that tracks repos, open PRs, deployments and lets you spin up two‑way agent sessions to refine specs, run triage, or fire off GitHub Actions. He demos repo-action dashboards, a Tiny Tool Town submitter that parses READMEs and submits tools, and the Focus Plan for picking prioritized work or assigning tasks to cloud agents. Most useful: you can create a canvas in minutes with a single "create canvas" prompt, scope it to user/project/session, share it via Awesome Copilot or a gist, and automate routine dev tasks. If you want faster triage, repeatable workflows, and playful community-made tools, this episode is a hands-on guide to rethinking your dev workflow with canvases. Awesome Copilot: awesome-copilot.github.com

it was lovely working on this together with @aniongithub & everyone 〜 💫

From an issue on GitHub.com, you can now open the GitHub Copilot app to start working on a fix with one-click.

Ya’ll try out but GitHub app yet github.com/features/ai/gi…? Initially I didn’t think anything could take me out of the cli but it did

Most surprising thing I learned at AIE- Apparently GitHub Copilot… is pretty good. Good to the point where companies roll with it over Cursor and Claude. Yes, you read that right.

@maaslalani 😍

I built a tiny tool to check your internet speed in your terminal. github.com/maaslalani/fast

@steven_wangler 1. We will expose /compact. Just an oversight 2. Yes, pretty universal that folks on the team don’t manually compact and just let copilot manage it. Our auto compaction is amazing. Typically one session per PR is the common workflow.

2/2 - do you typically work in a long, continuous thread or are you starting new sessions often?

@_Evan_Boyle @pierceboggan can you guys tell me a bit about how you use the copilot app? I’m getting hung up about this: There is not compact command, so I assume this is happening automatically for me and I don’t need to worry about it? Also, with that being the case (?) 1/2

@Cool_Goose @maaslalani feature requests welcome! github.com/github/copilot…

@_Evan_Boyle @maaslalani Can we have vscode be the lsp proxy for cli? :P

Some TLC in the Copilot CLI courtesy of @maaslalani More compact file read timeline entries, and file icons with a delightful color palette 😍

Daily I am blown away with what people are able to build with canvases in the GitHub App!

@atushaik @github @GitHubCopilot Mind filing an issue with what you want to see and responding back here with a link? Definitely want to improve this, but specifics and scenarios to cover would be super useful! github.com/github/app

@_Evan_Boyle @github @GitHubCopilot Is there any way to add default instructions for creating PR using github copilot app? like creating PR for develop branch instead of main? I love the native integration of the app with Github, but need more user customization.

@brunoborges @pierceboggan Much appreciated. The second piece of feedback is possible today. We just don’t make it easy.

@_Evan_Boyle @pierceboggan I'd say also to give the user an option to create the canvas as an independent repository on GitHub.

TOML Schema editor inside the GitHub Copilot App // @pierceboggan @_Evan_Boyle

Using the /impeccable skill built into the GitHub Copilot app, @cassidoo gave her PocketCal app a design refresh! ✨ Enable in Settings > Experimental to try it out. gh.io/app?utm_source…

@manekinekko @github @lichinlin @burkeholland @lichinlin is the 🐐

I love the diagram feature of the @github Copilot App, works well with my fleet IoT side projects! Kudos to @lichinlin 🎊

We benchmarked the GitHub Copilot agentic harness against the harnesses that ship leading models natively. Holding the model and task fixed across SWE-bench Verified, SWE-bench Pro, SkillsBench, TerminalBench, and Win-Hill, the results were clear: ✅ Task resolution on par with model-vendor harnesses ✅ Fewer tokens across most configurations 💡 A key learning: With GitHub Copilot supporting more than 20 models, you're free to pick efficiency or peak quality per task.

@traderphos Fork creates a fork if the current session / work tree. This can create a fresh session in any repo, and the parent session controls it, sends and receives messages to that child session.

@_Evan_Boyle Wait is it not /fork?

New in GitHub Copilot App /spawn creates a child session. Great for multi-repo research and code changes.

@awakecoding @pierceboggan @awakecoding release with a fix in progress right now, should be available in the next hour or so. Thank you for the report!

@awakecoding @pierceboggan Let me take a look.

If you're wondering why the GitHub Copilot app on Windows mysteriously doesn't see many command-line tools which you know you've installed and are available in PATH, I think I figured out why: #issuecomment-4789727188" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">github.com/github/app/iss…