GitHub keeps adding small pieces to Copilot cloud agent, and the pattern is getting harder to miss.
The latest one is scheduling and event-based automation. Copilot cloud agent can now be kicked off automatically, instead of waiting for a human to type a prompt in an editor or assign an issue.
That sounds like a feature update. It is more than that.
Once an agent can wake up on its own, inspect a repo, make changes, and open a pull request, it stops being a chat assistant. It becomes scheduled infrastructure.
It belongs in the same mental bucket as cron, CI, release bots, dependency update bots, and all the quiet automation that slowly became load-bearing because nobody wanted to do the same boring thing every Tuesday.
