Claude and Codex are now available in public preview on GitHub 💻

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Claude and Codex coding agents are now in public preview

Claude by Anthropic and OpenAI Codex are now available as coding agents for Copilot Pro+ and Copilot Enterprise customers.

You can start agent sessions and assign work to these agents from github.com, GitHub Mobile, and VS Code. You can do this directly from issues, pull requests, the Agents tab in enabled repositories, and the agent sessions view in VS Code for a seamless cross-client experience.

No additional subscriptions are required. Access to Claude and Codex is included with your existing Copilot subscription. Each coding agent session consumes one premium request during public preview.

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How to enable Claude and Codex

For Copilot Pro+ subscribers

1. Go to your Copilot coding agent settings.
2. Choose which repositories agents are allowed to access.
3. Enable "Claude", "Codex", or both by toggling them On.

For Copilot Enterprise subscribers

The following settings must be enabled by your enterprise admin:

• Enable agents at the enterprise level:

  1. Navigate to "Enterprise AI Controls".
  2. Open the Agents tab.
  3. In "Partner Agents", enable "Claude", "Codex", or both.

• Enable agents at the organization level:

  1. Go to the organization’s Settings.
  2. Select the Copilot tab.
  3. Open Coding agent.
  4. In "Partner Agents", enable "Claude", "Codex", or both.

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How to use agents

Create and view sessions from the Agents tab on GitHub (web and mobile app)

You can create new agent sessions on GitHub.com and the GitHub Mobile app in a few different ways:

• On GitHub.com, go to the Agents tab in any repository where agents are enabled, or initiate a task using the agents dropdown in the main header.
• On the GitHub Mobile app, open the Agents view from Home or a repository, or tap the + button from Home, Repository, or other views.

Whichever entry point you use, type your request, select the agent you want to work with by clicking the Copilot icon in the input field, and submit. The agent will begin work shortly. You can follow progress in real time or review completed sessions from the session list on both web and mobile.

Assign agents to issues

Assign an issue to Claude, Codex, Copilot, or all three using the Assignees dropdown. The selected agent or agents will automatically begin work and submit a draft pull request for you to review.

Work with agents in pull requests

• Agents can generate draft pull requests for assigned tasks (unless you choose not to), follow up on feedback, and continue iterating until the work is complete.
• You can also assign an open pull request to any agent using the Assignees dropdown.
• Leave review comments or request changes by using @copilot, @claude, or @codex.
• Use the View session button to see a full overview and detailed activity logs.

Start agent sessions in VS Code

1. Ensure you are running VS Code 1.109 or later.
2. Open the Agent sessions view by clicking the chat icon in the title bar or opening the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P) and searching for Agent sessions.
3. Choose a session type and agent:

• Local: Fast, interactive help
• Cloud: Autonomous tasks that run on GitHub
• Background: Asynchronous tasks that run locally (Copilot only)

Watch this demo video to see these agents in action.

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Try it now

• Enable Claude and Codex today

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Learn more

• Read more in our full blog post here.
• Explore our third-party agents documentation to get the most out of Claude and Codex.
• View more details about working with agents on mobile in our changelog about new ways to create agent sessions.

🌟Leave a comment!

Join the discussion and leave feedback in the comments below!

[mortenh77]

Is there a staged rollout or something here? I cannot see the agents even if enabling/disabling and selecting repos directly etc.

[pleb]

I'm having the same issue as @kevinprince. It's enabled at the Enterprise level, and in a sandbox org. My Copilot subscription, GitHub Copilot Enterprise, is active for my account. However, the Sandbox org won't let me use Claude. I've double-checked the settings, and everything seems configured correctly.

[mortenh77]

I have a personal pro+ and enabled in the org settings and personal settings. Only copilot shows up in org owned repos, but all 3 in personal repos.

[christianharrington]

Has anyone been able to get it working in an Enterprise or Organization context?
We also have it enabled, but the new agent options don't show up anywhere.

[theophanemayaud]

Still haven't on our entreprise + org context... Not sure if our admins are doing it wrong, or if it's just a bug on GitHub side...

[kelseyrae]

Hi all, thanks for your patience. Our team is still digging in trying to get to the bottom of this, as we are only sporadically hearing about these visibility issues.

[andrzejressel]

Agents seems to be running in different VM images which is suprising - for example Claude can use mise command, but codex reports it as not available.

Claude seems to work much better than vanilla Copilot, mostly because it respects AGENTS.md and run format/test steps from there.

[andrzejressel]

I believe last week when I clicked in Claude contributor

the result page was the documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/about-third-party-agents.

However, now it results in 404: https://github.com/apps/anthropic-code-agent

Another bug:

when clicking in Claude in Pull request view the resulting URL: https://github.com/andrzejressel/finance-as-code/issues?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+author%3A%40claude%5Bagent%5D has following message:

[kelseyrae]

Thanks for reporting! Our team is digging into these.

[slsluxcondo]

How does this change the current workflow for Copilot Pro+ and Enterprise users?

[kelseyrae]

📢 This is now also available for Copilot Business and Pro subscribers!

[mortenh77]

Verified. Thanks

[ehpmfigueroa]

We use Copilot Business but do not see the option to "Sign in with GitHub Copilot" in the Codex extension; even after enabling the Codex partner agent in the organization's settings. We are using VS Code 1.109

[kelseyrae]

@ehpmfigueroa the Codex extension is independent and separate from the launch referred to in this post. If you want to use this Codex agent with your Copilot subscription in VS Code you need to open a repo with the agents enabled, use the "Cloud" agent session type, then select Codex. That will leverage your Copilot subscription. (Edited for clarity)

[fraenkDUS]

@kelseyrae Documentation says "Sign in with Copilot" on the VS Code extension https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/agents/openai-codex#vs-code-extension

[kelseyrae]

@fraenkDUS unfortunately I can't speak to that extension, as it's separate and unrelated to the launch referred to in this discussion post, which is related to the "Cloud" agents in VS Code and on github.com. I can't speak to why someone may be having problems signing in with that extension.

Cc @pierceboggan who may have guidance on how to debug the extension.

[escaton]

Are other agents expected to come? I'm particularly interested in OpenCode

[kelseyrae]

Yes! We're working on expanding to support additional agents. Stay tuned.