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GitHub's @GitHub Agent in Slack and Teams Is Now Generally Available

Original sourceGitHub ChangelogAdditional: Vinish.DevAdditional: On The Wire

Summary

GitHub announced general availability of its @GitHub integration in Slack and Microsoft Teams, letting developers ask the agent in-conversation to investigate bugs, create issues, implement changes, and open pull requests without leaving the chat window or browser. Teams adds a Canvas for side-by-s…

Key points

  • For teams collaborating daily in Slack or Teams, the flow from bug report to fix-opening PR now fits inside a single interface.
  • Collaboration chat platforms are becoming the entry point for agentic coding, changing how teams move from report to PR.
  • Engineering teams can reduce switching between chat and IDE and review plans and code together in Teams, while managers can trace agent output via attribution labels.

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