Mission Control to assign, steer, and track Copilot coding agent tasks

[Akash1134]

🎯 Mission Control: Unified Copilot Coding Agent Task Management (GA)

We've completely redesigned how you assign, steer, and track Copilot coding agent tasks on github.com. Instead of tab-hopping to monitor progress or digging through PR comments to guide work, everything you need now lives in one centralized, real-time view.

🖥 Single-Pane Visibility

Get the full picture without context switching:

• Session logs sit right next to the Overview and Files changed tabs.
• See Copilot's reasoning behind commits—live, in context, as they happen.
• Track status, check diffs, and review rationale without leaving the page.

🎛 Real-Time Steering

Copilot listens while it works. Guide an in-progress session without waiting for completion:

• Provide input via the chat input or drop a comment directly in the Files changed view.
• Copilot adapts as soon as its current tool call finishes—no more @copilot comment chains in the PR thread.
• Iterative collaboration feels instant, not asynchronous.

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📋 Centralized Task View

The new task switcher shows all your agent sessions at a glance:

• Status indicators make triage effortless.
• Quick links jump straight to the related pull request.
• Jump between tasks mid-flow without hunting for browser tabs.

✨ More Ways to Start Tasks

Create Copilot coding agent tasks from:

• The agents panel (anywhere on github.com)
• github.com/copilot (type /task in chat)
• github.com/copilot/agents
• The GitHub Mobile agents task page
• Directly from the home dashboard

Pick a custom agent during creation to tailor Copilot's behavior for your specific workflow or domain.

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🚀 Continue Anywhere

Open your active session in:

• Codespaces for a full cloud dev environment.
• VS Code Insiders to keep building locally.
• GitHub CLI for terminal-first workflows.

Seamlessly hand off between Copilot's draft work and your own finishing touches.

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🔐 Access Notes

• Available to all users with Copilot coding agent access.
• Steering & collaboration requires write access to the repository.
• VS Code Insiders handoff requires the latest Insiders build + GitHub Copilot Chat and GitHub Pull Requests extensions.

🚀 Why This Matters

• Reduces time spent hunting for task state across tabs and threads.
• Tightens the feedback loop—steer while Copilot works instead of after it's done.
• Lowers onboarding friction with task creation everywhere you already are.
• Simplifies handoff between agent-generated drafts and human polish.

✅ Quick Wins

1. Delegate a medium-complexity feature → steer it in real time via chat or file comments.
2. Use the task switcher to triage 3–5 concurrent agent sessions.
3. Open a draft PR in VS Code Insiders to layer on tests or edge cases.
4. Create a task from Mobile while away from your desk → review logs when you're back.
5. Pick a custom agent for domain-specific tasks (e.g., API client refactor, test expansion).

🔧 Workflow Ideas

• Morning triage: Task view → identify blocked sessions → steer → continue.
• Parallel exploration: Spin up multiple tasks for competing approaches; compare in session logs.
• Incremental polish: Let Copilot draft scaffolding → open in Codespaces → layer auth/validation logic.
• Mobile delegation: Assign backlog issues to Copilot from your phone during downtime.

💬 Feedback

What's next for mission control? Task templates? Multi-repo orchestration? Session replay for learning? Share ideas in the comments below.

Command your agent fleet from a single cockpit. 🛸🤖

[heagandev]

I was looking forward to this, thanks! Can we also choose which model performs the task?

[nhu-do]

Not at the moment, but it is something we are considering for future iterations. Coding agent is currently powered by Sonnet 4.5.

[heagandev]

Glad to hear, can we expect Sonnet 4.5 Thinking be added to the roster as well?

[nhu-do]

I will take that back to the team for consideration. Thanks for sharing your feedback!

[Scopesource]

I would have thought Haiku 4.5 would be faster and better option if having a larger team, of smaller agents..

[Scopesource]

Hi! May I ask when the new universe features arw available in the UK and what subscription I need to get access to all the tools? Not too fussed about GpT5 Codex in VS code..

Happy to upgrade to pro+ if I am able to use all the other cool tools that were shared on your keynote.

Please help as I cant find Plan mode and other things :)