GitHub Copilot Automations

Cloud-run Copilot workflows combining prompts, triggers and allowed tools, shareable across a team and able to learn from outcomes.

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Overview

GitHub announced shared Copilot Automations on October 28, 2026 at Universe. An automation combines a prompt, a trigger (an issue opened, a pull request marked ready for review, a production incident from a monitoring tool, a schedule or a manual start) and a set of allowed tools, then runs in the cloud as Copilot. Shared automations are visible to the team, editable by anyone with write access, persist if their creator leaves and bill AI credits to the repository owner; personal ones use the creator's identity and credits, and the type cannot change after creation. GitHub also says automations can learn from outcomes and propose improvements for human approval. They are created on github.com, in the Copilot app or in VS Code and are rolling out to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise.

This is a sourced directory entry. Features and capabilities are reported in the linked sources; this entry does not document independent Aymorphic testing.

Key features

  • Triggers: events such as issue opened or PR ready for review, schedules, manual start
  • Runs only with the tools the author has allowed
  • Shared automations act as Copilot, with change history and write-access editing
  • Learns from outcomes and proposes improvements for review
  • Created on github.com, in the Copilot app or in VS Code

Use cases

  • Automatic issue triage and first-pass code review
  • Responding to production incidents detected by monitoring tools
  • Team-wide repeatable repository chores billed to the repo owner

Pricing

Consumes AI credits billed to the repository owner (organization or user); no separate fee stated. Organization repositories need the 'Allow use of Copilot cloud agent billed to the organization' policy enabled.

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Dates and sources

Released
28 Oct 2026
Record updated
29 Oct 2026
Record last checked
29 Oct 2026

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