Continue GitHub Copilot sessions in VS Code
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On October 20, 2026, the GitHub Blog published an official tutorial explaining that agent sessions in the GitHub Copilot app can now be opened and continued directly in VS Code without starting over. Tasks, conversation context, code changes, and worktrees are fully preserved. The tutorial demonstrates a typical workflow for developers taking over agent work in VS Code: reviewing the agent-generated diff line by line, making manual edits, using the integrated terminal to run local verification (such as npm test), and automatically updating the pull request associated with the session after committing and pushing. The tutorial was published by GitHub officially and is first-hand information; so far this is the only report, with no further developments on the event.
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- GitHub Blog · AI & MLHow to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code
Agent sessions from the GitHub Copilot app can be opened and continued directly in VS Code, with the session's tasks, conversation context, code changes and worktree fully preserved, so no restart is needed. The tutorial shows how to review the agent's diff line by line, make manual edits, run and verify locally with the integrated terminal (such as npm test), and automatically update the session's linked pull request after committing and pushing.
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