When an agent makes a change to your code, you want to review it, run it, and see what changed. Great news: now you can do all three without having to leave the GitHub Copilot app.
Before, doing those three jobs would mean having to bounce between your editor, terminal window, and web browser. But when these steps live side by side as built-in panels in the Copilot app, checking your agent’s work is simple.
Let’s walk through each of the panels in the app and how we’ll use them to complete the AI coding loop.
Using the diff panel to review changes
The diff panel (a diff is a before and after comparison) shows exactly what lines were added, removed, or changed, with additions highlighted in green and deletions in red.
