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GitHub Copilot

closed / Overall score: 4.3(strong)

GitHub Copilot's agent mode, which takes an assigned task and runs it as autonomous background work, planning, exploring the repository and executing changes. It orchestrates the first-party Copilot agent alongside Anthropic and OpenAI agents, and is built natively into GitHub across VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains and Neovim.

Scored as the agent surface; the in-IDE assistant is a separate record in ui_api. GitHub reports all-time users and no active-user figure. Verified 2026-08-13 via the GitHub Copilot product page.

Openness

1 high confidence

1.0

source: closed
license: proprietary(GitHub/Microsoft SaaS)
self-host: no

Proprietary GitHub/Microsoft product; agent mode is a closed SaaS feature, model-agnostic on the backend but not open source.

https://github.com/features/copilot recorded 2026-08-13
GitHub Copilot sold as a hosted proprietary product with agent mode and task assignment to agents, natively built into GitHub; no source distribution and no self-host option

Adoption

5 high confidence

5.0

GitHub Copilot has surpassed 20M+ all-time users, which Microsoft describes as "the world's most widely adopted AI developer tool"; agent mode is the autonomous surface of that base. That bands at >10M users, level 5. The 20M is an all-time cumulative count rather than an active one, and no agent-mode-specific figure is disclosed, so it stands in for an active count the product does not publish - which means the true active figure is lower, not higher.

https://github.com/features/copilot recorded 2026-08-13
'growing to millions of individual users and tens of thousands of business customers, GitHub Copilot is the world's most widely adopted AI developer tool'
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/github-copilot-crosses-20-million-all-time-users/ recorded 2026-08-13
more than 20 million users from the Microsoft earnings call, confirmed by GitHub as "all-time users"; Microsoft and GitHub do not report monthly or daily actives

Capability

4 medium confidence

4.0

Broad agentic feature set with frontier-model backends and best-in-class repository integration: autonomous background agents that plan, explore and execute, multi-model orchestration across Copilot, Claude and Codex, and deep GitHub, pull-request and CI integration. No SWE-bench figure is published for Copilot agent mode itself, so this is a judgment on features rather than a measurement, strong but below where a verified benchmark could take it.

https://github.com/features/copilot recorded 2026-08-13
agent mode in the editor, task assignment to agents, multi-model orchestration and IDE coverage across VS Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains and Neovim; no benchmark figure published

Verified 2026-08-13