From Your Laptop to the Pipeline: Scaling Custom Agents with GitHub Copilot

Jose Palafox, a GitHub Field Copilot Specialist, walks through taking a Copilot agent from a single laptop to an organization-wide, pipeline-hosted system. Topics include how the Copilot harness and CLI work, building custom agents with the agent builder, sharing them through marketplaces, orchestrating cross-repository changes, and running headless agents in GitHub Actions through GitHub Agentic Workflows, with a focus on observability and cost control.