GitHub brings Teams notifications and Copilot into one app

A bug report arrives in a team chat, followed by a discussion that explains how to reproduce it. GitHub’s October 23 update brings notifications and Copilot into the same Teams app, so that conversation can become a request to investigate and prepare a pull request. Consolidation announcement.

The immediate task for existing users is identifying which app is installed. GitHub says users of GitHub notifications should update it; existing notification functions continue. Users of the legacy GitHub app should install the consolidated app before the old one, renamed GitHub (deprecated), retires on November 16.

Check access before planning the workflow

The setup documentation still describes a public preview. It requires permission to install Teams apps, Microsoft Public Developer Preview enabled in the Teams client, and cloud sandboxes enabled for the Copilot plan. An organization or enterprise owner may need to enable the relevant policies.

That means an updated app alone does not establish that every teammate can delegate work. Connect the intended GitHub account, confirm repository access and check those prerequisites before promising a chat-based handoff.

Turn the discussion into a checkable request

For an illustrative first task, use a small interface bug: a signup button stays disabled after correcting an invalid email. Give the agent the repository, reproduction steps, expected behaviour and an acceptance check. Ask for a pull request that explains the change and reports which checks ran. This example has not been executed.

Keep the useful parts of the conversation attached to the task. “Fix this” leaves the agent to infer whether the problem is validation, loading state or an expected access restriction. A short reproduction narrows the work and gives the reviewer a way to decide whether the fix is complete.

The usage guide says work can continue outside Teams in GitHub, a terminal or an editor. Open the resulting diff, reproduce the original bug and examine test results before merging. The chat is a convenient starting point; it does not replace that review.

First check your installed app and the migration deadline. For the next step, our coding-agent workflow guide explains how to keep a delegated task small enough to inspect.