GitHub announced on November 6, 2026, that its @GitHub coding agent is generally available in Slack and Microsoft Teams. GitHub says the agent can investigate bugs, create issues, implement changes and open pull requests. (GitHub’s announcement)
This is GitHub Copilot’s cloud coding agent, invoked as @GitHub in a team conversation. A separate October 15 update let Copilot answer questions across repositories in chat; NeoTeo covered that feature earlier. The November announcement focuses on coding tasks started from chat.
What GitHub’s chat agent can do
GitHub lists four kinds of work: investigating bugs, creating issues, implementing code changes and opening pull requests. It also says the agent can identify a repository from a message and start a coding session without asking the user to select the repository again.
The same announcement describes onboarding improvements for people who are signed out, have no default repository, want to switch repositories or need to grant app access. GitHub also says it fixed an issue that could prevent replies to follow-up messages.
What Canvas adds in Teams
GitHub describes Canvas as a space beside a Teams conversation where collaborators can review implementation plans, code changes and previews, share feedback and refine the implementation together.
GitHub published a demonstration of the agent in Slack and Microsoft Teams on September 7, 2026, before the November 6 general-availability announcement.
The label that traces work to a chat
Issues and pull requests created by @GitHub carry the description text “Created from a Slack/Teams conversation with @username”. It identifies the originating conversation and the username that started the work.
When reviewing an issue or pull request created through chat, look for the conversation and username in its description.
