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GitHub Copilot cloud agent for Linear hits GA

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GitHub Copilot cloud agent for Linear hits GA

GitHub made the Copilot cloud agent for Linear generally available on July 23, 2026: assign a Linear issue to the background agent and it analyzes it, opens a draft PR, runs in a GitHub Actions environment, and streams progress back to the Linear timeline.

GitHub announced that the Copilot cloud agent for Linear is now generally available. You can assign a Linear issue to the Copilot cloud agent - an asynchronous, autonomous background agent - to handle it instead of doing the work by hand.

Key points

  • Workflow: once assigned an issue, the agent analyzes its contents, opens a draft pull request, works independently in an ephemeral development environment powered by GitHub Actions, streams progress back to the Linear activity timeline, and requests your review when done.
  • Controls from Linear: choose which model Copilot uses for a task, use a custom agent from your repository to match your team's workflow, and control which branch the PR targets and which branch Copilot commits to.

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