About third-party agents

Introduction

You can use third-party coding agents alongside Agente de codificación de Copilot to work asynchronously on your development tasks. You can assign an existing issue or give a prompt to an agent, which will work on the required changes and create a pull request. When the agent finishes, it will request a review from you, and you can leave pull request comments to ask the agent to iterate.

Coding agents are subject to the same security protections, mitigations, and limitations as Agente de codificación de Copilot. To learn more about how you can use coding agents, see Acerca del agente de codificación de GitHub Copilot.

Where you can use coding agents

You can kick off tasks with coding agents in the following locations:

• The Agents tab: Select an agent under the prompt box in the Agents tab, then kick off a new task and watch the agent get to work on a pull request.
• Issues: Assign the agent to an existing issue in a repository.
• Pull requests: Mention @AGENT_NAME in a comment on an existing pull request to ask it to make changes.
• On GitHub Mobile: From the Home view, click to start a new agent session.
• In Visual Studio Code: Start a new session in the chat view, or delegate an existing session to a different agent.

Making coding agents available

Before you can assign tasks to coding agents, they must be enabled. If you are a GitHub Copilot Pro+ subscriber, see Administración de directivas de GitHub Copilot como suscriptor individual.

For GitHub Copilot para empresas and GitHub Copilot para grandes empresas subscribers, the ability to use Agente de codificación de Copilot is controlled by policy settings defined at the organization level. See Administración de directivas y características para GitHub Copilot en tu organización.

If the organization is owned by an enterprise, enablement may be controlled at the enterprise level. See Administración de directivas y características para GitHub Copilot en tu empresa.

Supported coding agents

The following third-party agents are supported on GitHub:

• Anthropic Claude
• OpenAI Codex

Usage costs

Coding agents consume GitHub Actions minutes and GitHub Copilot premium requests. Each agent session consumes one premium request.

Within your monthly usage allowance for GitHub Actions and premium requests, you can ask agents to work on coding tasks without incurring any additional costs.

For more information, see Licencias de GitHub Copilot.

Next steps

• To start managing agents, see Administración de agentes de codificación de Copilot.
• To learn how AI models are hosted and served, see Hosting de modelos para GitHub Copilot Chat.