GitHub turns Microsoft Teams discussions into shared Copilot agent sessions

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Summary

GitHub's new Microsoft Teams integration enables shared Copilot agent sessions for collaborative AI-assisted work with human approval gates for pull requests.

GitHub says its new Microsoft Teams integration can turn a channel, thread, or direct message into a shared Copilot cloud-agent session. Anyone in the conversation can ask questions, add context, and steer the work. People with repository write access can let Copilot make changes. The session runs in a secure cloud sandbox, and teams can continue with the agent-generated artifacts in the terminal, the Copilot app, or an IDE. Repository admins can also require an extra approval before pull requests from the Teams integration identity can merge. The useful part is not another chat box. It is a shared work log with a human merge gate. Source: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-21-shared-agentic-work-with-github-copilot-in-microsoft-teams/

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