GitHub Changelog
8/3/2026

Trigger Copilot automations with comments
Short summary
GitHub Copilot cloud agent automations can now be triggered by issue comments and pull request comments. Common use cases include generating documentation when a PR comment is created and other automated workflows. This enables more natural, inline interaction with Copilot agents directly from existing GitHub discussion threads.
- •Copilot automations trigger on issue or PR comment creation
- •Use cases include auto-generating documentation from PR comments
- •Enables inline, comment-driven AI agent workflows in GitHub
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