GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: Build, Test, and Ship Code Fast

What if you could open a GitHub issue, describe the outcome you want, and come back to a draft PR with tests run and changes ready to review? That’s the promise of the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent. This course is a hands-on guide to delegating real work to an agent that operates in the cloud - planning tasks, updating multiple files, running checks with GitHub Actions, and iterating based on your feedback - so you ship faster with less context-switching.

What You’ll Learn:

• Best practices on how to use the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent to your advantage

• When to use the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent vs. Agent Mode and how to combine both for maximum efficiency.

• Learn the sweet-spot tasks that are ideal for the GitHub Copilot Coding Agent

• How to enable and configure the Coding Agent for a repository within your GitHub Organization/Enterprise

• Writing high-signal issues (clear goals, constraints, acceptance criteria) that the agent can turn into reliable PRs.

• Providing additional context to the Coding Agent to ensure the Coding Agent follows your organzation's standards

• Guiding runs: reviewing plans and diffs, giving feedback in comments, and re-running tasks safely.

• Automating multi-file changes, test execution, and CI workflows - without living in your IDE.

• Configure the Coding Agent to work with MCP to connect to external data and increase capabilities beyond GitHub

By the end, you’ll confidently direct the Coding Agent from idea → issue → draft PR, keeping control over quality while offloading the busywork.