{"slug": "trigger-copilot-automations-with-comments", "title": "Trigger Copilot automations with comments", "summary": "GitHub has released a new feature allowing users to trigger Copilot cloud agent automations with issue or pull request comments, enabling tasks such as generating documentation, investigating errors, and creating follow-up tasks. The feature is available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users, with Business and Enterprise requiring the Copilot cloud agent policy enabled by an administrator.", "body_md": "Release\n\n# Trigger Copilot automations with comments\n\nYou can now create Copilot cloud agent automations that run when an issue comment or pull request comment is created.\n\nCommon use cases include:\n\n**Generate documentation**: Comment on a pull request to automatically generate or update documentation based on your code changes.** Investigate errors**: Comment on an issue to trigger an automation that investigates stack traces or error logs.** Create follow-up tasks**: Comment on a pull request to have an automation automatically create follow-up issues for refactoring or technical debt.\n\nWhen configuring an automation, specify the comment text that should trigger it. To get started, click through to the **Agents** tab in your repository, then pick **Automations** in the sidebar.\n\nAutomations are available for existing Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users. Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users need the Copilot cloud agent policy enabled by an administrator.\n\nLearn more in [About Copilot automations](https://docs.github.com/copilot/concepts/agents/cloud-agent/about-automations) in the GitHub Docs.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trigger-copilot-automations-with-comments", "canonical_source": "https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-03-trigger-copilot-automations-with-comments", "published_at": "2026-08-03 19:14:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-04 04:23:17.073266+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["GitHub", "Copilot"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trigger-copilot-automations-with-comments", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trigger-copilot-automations-with-comments.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trigger-copilot-automations-with-comments.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/trigger-copilot-automations-with-comments.jsonld"}}