GitHub Copilot App Lets Developers Run and Control Multiple AI Agents at Once

For the past year, AI coding agents have been doing more and more of the actual work: opening issues, writing code, submitting pull requests, responding to review feedback. The problem is that the tooling around them never caught up. Context scattered across windows, parallel agents stepped on each other's changes, and nobody had a clear view of what was running. At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub shipped its answer: the GitHub Copilot app, a dedicated desktop experience built from the ground up to manage multiple AI agents at once.

The problem nobody was talking about

While the agentic shift has made development faster, it has also led to disjointed workflows, more context switching, and too much time spent reviewing agent-generated code. If agents are going to be a durable part of how software gets built, they need a real place in the developer workflow. Yet most developer tools were not designed for directing multiple agents in parallel. The scale of the problem is real: AI coding assistants started as autocomplete, and now they are running parallel workstreams, submitting pull requests, and managing their own review cycles. GitHub now sees commits nearly doubling year over year, crossing 1.4 billion per month, plus over 2 billion GitHub Actions minutes a week.

A control center, not just another chat window

GitHub unveiled the GitHub Copilot app, a new desktop experience designed around AI agents that can work alongside developers across the entire software development lifecycle, introducing a centralized environment where developers can launch, monitor, and guide multiple AI-powered coding agents while maintaining visibility into their work.

The core of the experience is a My Work view. The Copilot app provides a single "My Work" view showing active sessions, open issues, pull requests, and background automations across connected repositories. Under the hood, the isolation model is what makes parallel agents actually safe to run: every session runs in its own git worktree, a real, isolated copy of your branch, which helps parallel agent sessions work without stepping on each other. The app handles every worktree automatically with no manual setup, no cleanup, and no branch juggling.