@GitHub in Slack and Teams reaches general availability
The Copilot cloud agent can now investigate bugs, open issues and prepare pull requests straight from a Slack or Teams thread, with a new Canvas review view in Teams.
GitHub announced on 6 November that @GitHub in Slack and Teams is generally available. Mention it in a chat thread and it can investigate a bug, create an issue, implement a change and open a pull request without anyone leaving the conversation.
Teams also gets Canvas, previously a Slack-only view, so a team can review an implementation plan, the resulting code changes and a preview alongside the chat itself, then keep discussing and refining before merging. GitHub says onboarding is faster too: @GitHub now identifies the right repository from your message instead of asking you to pick one every time, and a bug that could stop it responding to follow-up messages is fixed. Issues and pull requests it creates now carry a line crediting the Slack or Teams conversation and the person who started it.
Why it matters: for teams that already triage and discuss work in Slack or Teams, this removes a context switch: a bug report in chat can become a pull request without anyone opening GitHub directly. The Canvas review step matters more than the chat trigger itself, since it gives reviewers somewhere to actually look at the diff before it lands.
The caveat: the changelog entry doesn’t say which Copilot plans this applies to or whether anything beyond what’s described here changed in the move from preview to GA.