Copilot cloud agent for Linear reaches GA; model picker and custom agents included

You can now assign issues in Linear to Copilot cloud agent, our asynchronous, autonomous background agent.

When you assign a Linear issue to Copilot, it will:

• Analyze the issue contents and open a draft pull request.
• Work independently in its own ephemeral development environment, powered by GitHub Actions.
• Stream progress updates back to your Linear activity timeline.
• Request a pull request review from you when the work is complete.

What’s new

You now have more control over how the agent runs, right from your Linear workspace:

• Choose a model: Pick which model Copilot uses for a task.
• Use a custom agent: Point Copilot at a custom agent from your repository to match your team’s workflows.
• Set the base and working branch: Control which branch the pull request targets and which branch Copilot commits to.
• Steer a session: Mention Copilot in a comment to give it new instructions while it works.

Set these per issue, or apply them across your workspace or team with Linear agent guidance.

Get started

• Install the GitHub Copilot for Linear app from the GitHub Marketplace. You’ll need organization owner permissions in GitHub and workspace admin privileges in Linear.
• Read the Linear integration documentation to set up agent guidance, models, custom agents, and branches.

Copilot cloud agent is available with Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, and Enterprise.

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