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Microsoft brings GitHub Copilot to Teams chats, letting developers build features, fix bugs and create pull requests without leaving conversations.

Usama Jawad

Neowin
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Aug 21, 2026 16:24 EDT

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While AI is quite popular in consumer use-cases, it appears that the real revenue stream comes from enterprise customers. A core domain in this space is facilitating development and coding workflows through agentic experiences. It appears that Microsoft is now trying to control more of this market by integrating GitHub Copilot more deeply into your Teams conversations.

Microsoft has begun the public preview of GitHub Copilot in Teams, because it believes that coding and architectural problems in software development are often discussed online in Teams chats. Groups regularly diagnose issues, agree upon a fix, and a deployment strategy in Teams chats, so rather than having developers open a dedicating coding environment, providing full context to the AI agent, and then hack away at a solution, Microsoft is empowering GitHub Copilot to do all of that without all the manual effort.

Users can simply @mention GitHub Copilot when required, after which the AI tool will automatically contextualize the conversation with regard to the repository and create a pull request based upon the agreed solution. This enables developers to collaborate with each other and GitHub Copilot to create exactly what they need, without ever leaving the Teams chat.

During this public preview phase, GitHub Copilot is available across 1:1 chats, group chats, meeting chats, and channels. Once you install the GitHub app on Teams, you can utilize it to:

Build a feature based on requirements discussed in Teams
Implement a fix for a bug
Expand test coverage or improve documentation
Create and update a pull request

Microsoft has assured customers that GitHub Copilot will respect all existing permissions, including those associated with the repository. Additionally, GitHub Copilot will reduce the manual effort from your end, but human intervention will still be required for reviews and approvals, ensuring more control. It’s unclear when Microsoft plans to roll out this integration generally.