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GitHub Copilot's new desktop app is an agent-native experience for managing the full coding workflow, not just an editor or CLI.
“It's an agent native desktop experience for building things.”
At Microsoft Build Day 2, GitHub introduced a new Copilot desktop app that is agent-native rather than an editor or CLI, designed to manage the surrounding developer workflow—triaging backlogs, picking issues, running multiple isolated agents in Git worktrees, and shepherding PRs to completion. It intentionally backgrounds code so developers stay outcome-focused, signaling a shift toward orchestrating agents rather than directly editing code.