February 4, 2026 at 6:00 PM UTC
GitHub announced public preview availability of Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI Codex as partner coding agents for certain Copilot plans. Users can start agent sessions from GitHub web/mobile and VS Code, and assign agents to issues and pull requests to keep work tracked in the repo.
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