GitHub presents an agentic engineering guide for GitHub Copilot

In a post published on the GitHub Blog, GitHub says it saw more than 1.2 billion commits in one week in October, over 400% more than a year earlier. The post cites a Faros AI study that found pull requests spent 441% longer in review when teams moved from low to high AI adoption, arguing that faster code generation does not remove the work of planning, reviewing and monitoring production.

The guide proposes using agents across the Plan, Build, Verify and Observe stages. Examples include bringing context together from connected tools, collaborating with Copilot in Slack or Teams, turning requirements into GitHub Issues, triaging tasks and comparing approaches in Plan Mode. It also describes session continuity across devices and task execution in cloud environments, while emphasizing that developers still need to approve plans, evaluate results and make complex decisions.