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Editor and cloud coding agents

Pending changes, assistance modes, briefs for detached runs, review surfaces and choosing by review fit.

What you’ll learn

An agent inside your editor
Recognise editor-hosted agent work and where its changes appear.
About 5 minutes · Open activity
Copilot has several different modes
Distinguish completion, chat and delegated cloud work.
About 5 minutes · Open activity
A cloud agent needs a written issue
Supply the context a detached run cannot ask for.
About 6 minutes · Open activity
The review surface changes what you catch
Compare reviewing a diff in an editor and in a pull request.
About 5 minutes · Open activity
The same skills transfer
Apply one task contract across two different products.
About 5 minutes · Open activity
Choose by review fit, not novelty
Pick the surface that matches how you will check the work.
About 5 minutes · Open activity
Apply it: Editor and cloud coding agents
Place editor and cloud agents against a terminal agent, and start one bounded task in each by the review it needs.
About 6 minutes · Open activity