GitHub's Copilot cloud agent REST API turns coding agents into automation infrastructure, which means queues, identity, scope, review capacity, and audit trails matter.
GitHub quietly crossed an important line this month: Copilot cloud agent tasks can now be started through a REST API.
That sounds like a small product update. Another endpoint. Another preview feature.
But I think this is one of those boring-looking changes that tells you where the whole category is going.
Once an agent can be started by an API, it becomes automation infrastructure.
Not "ask the assistant to fix this file."
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