{"slug": "the-new-github-copilot-experience-in-slack", "title": "The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack", "summary": "GitHub has launched a public preview of its GitHub Copilot agentic capabilities within Slack, allowing users to mention @GitHub to plan changes, investigate issues, and hand off coding tasks directly from conversations. The integration, available to organizations on GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise plans, also supports Slack Code channels for dedicated agent collaboration. GitHub is a launch partner for Slack Code, a new channel type designed for agents.", "body_md": "# The new GitHub Copilot experience in Slack\n\nThe GitHub integration in Slack now brings the agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack in public preview. You can work with `@GitHub`\n\nto plan changes, investigate problems, and hand off coding tasks from the conversations where your team coordinates work. GitHub is also a launch partner for Slack Code, a new type of channel designed for agents.\n\nBringing Copilot into the flow of conversation helps your team turn shared intent into shippable work.\n\n[What you can now do with @GitHub](#what-you-can-now-do-with-github)\n\nMention `@GitHub`\n\nin a direct message, channel, or thread to start an agent session. Copilot can use the conversation and permitted GitHub context to:\n\n- Answer questions about your code and GitHub activity.\n- Triage bug reports, update existing issues, or create and label new issues.\n- Investigate failures, implement changes, and validate its work in a secure cloud sandbox.\n- Open a pull request and provide a link to the conversation for review.\n\nGitHub Copilot continues working asynchronously while you’re in a meeting, commuting, or focused on something else. You can direct the session from Slack as it works, then continue from the pull request in your terminal, the GitHub Copilot app, or your IDE.\n\n[Slack Code and GitHub Copilot](#slack-code-and-github-copilot)\n\nGitHub Copilot can also create a dedicated code channel that keeps the task focused without adding noise to the original conversation.\n\nInside the code channel, your team can follow the plan, inspect the diffs, review output previews like HTML artifacts, and iterate with Copilot. Anyone can join the channel from the original thread, add context, redirect the approach, or stop the session.\n\n[The power of multiplayer](#the-power-of-multiplayer)\n\nAgent sessions in Slack are shared, so your team can collaborate on the work where the request began instead of one person working privately with an agent.\n\nWorking in the open also makes effective agent workflows easier to learn. Developers can see how their teammates prompt the agent and learn from each other. Issues and pull requests created from the conversation are attributed to the Copilot app identity, and actions remain bounded by existing GitHub permissions and controls.\n\n[Availability and getting started](#availability-and-getting-started)\n\nThe public preview is available to organizations on GitHub Copilot Business and GitHub Copilot Enterprise plans. Usage counts against your existing Copilot entitlements and can be managed with existing Copilot cloud agent budgets.\n\nTo get started:\n\n- Make sure an administrator has enabled the Copilot cloud agent policy for your organization.\n- Install or upgrade the\n[GitHub app for Slack](https://slack.com/marketplace/A01BP7R4KNY-github). - Link your GitHub account and mention\n`@GitHub`\n\nin a conversation.\n\nRepository administrators can require an additional approval for any pull request attributed to the Copilot app identity before it can merge. Requiring an additional approval keeps a human in the loop before agent-authored work ships. Your team moves fast without losing compliance oversight.\n\nFor setup details and supported workflows, see [how to use Copilot coding agent with Slack](https://docs.github.com/copilot/how-tos/use-copilot-agents/coding-agent/integrate-coding-agent-with-slack).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-github-copilot-experience-in-slack", "canonical_source": "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-21-the-new-github-copilot-experience-in-slack", "published_at": "2026-08-21 16:07:15+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 16:45:27.712176+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "developer-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["GitHub", "Slack", "GitHub Copilot", "GitHub Copilot CLI", "GitHub app for Slack", "Slack Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-github-copilot-experience-in-slack", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-github-copilot-experience-in-slack.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-github-copilot-experience-in-slack.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-new-github-copilot-experience-in-slack.jsonld"}}