Hand merge conflicts from GitHub Mobile to a cloud agent without surrendering revision-bound review and merge ownership.
GitHub announced on July 8, 2026 that GitHub Mobile can start a Copilot cloud-agent workflow to fix pull-request merge conflicts.
Primary source: GitHub Changelog, July 8, 2026.
The unsafe mental model is “tap once and the conflict is solved.” A safer model is:
mobile intent -> bounded remote task -> proposed patch -> verification -> human merge
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