GitHub Copilot's coding agent lands in Slack: triage, fix, open a PR
The agent runs async in a secure cloud sandbox — but only on paid Business/Enterprise seats. Plus: Vercel open-sources a coding agent anyone can run.
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@GitHub in Slack, from triage to PR
GitHub opened a public preview of Copilot's agent inside Slack: @mention @GitHub to answer questions about your code, triage and label issues, then investigate failures, implement changes in a secure cloud sandbox, and open a PR linked back to the thread — all async. It needs a Copilot Business or Enterprise plan, draws on your existing cloud-agent budget, and admins can require approval before agent-authored PRs merge.
Own it instead: Vercel open-sources fx
Vercel Labs open-sourced fx, a model- and provider-agnostic coding agent shipped as a single 6.39 MiB native binary (written in Zig) with a ~10μs cold start, under Apache-2.0. It brings approval-gated file edits, skills, MCP servers, and subagents, and is small enough to embed in CI containers, sandboxes, and VMs where a full runtime won't fit. Install: curl -fsSL https://fx.sh/setup.sh | bash.
Pinecone Nexus hits GA
Pinecone's Nexus “knowledge engine” for agents reached general availability — a managed retrieval layer meant to replace the bespoke RAG pipeline you rebuild for every project. It can deploy inside your own cloud and, per Pinecone, topped the τ-Knowledge benchmark. Worth a look before you hand-roll retrieval again.