Ok, I’ve been neglecting the new
@GitHubCopilot Desktop app lately.
I’ve been experimenting with context repos and how to orchestrate agents across code repos and context repos (which themselves are powered by
@GitHubNext agentic workflows).
And the harness in the new desktop app is… exactly what I needed.
You can spin up an orchestrator agent that launches background agents across multiple repos, all in parallel. They communicate in real time, sending messages back and forth with the orchestrator.
It’s honestly wild to watch the system come alive.
My current setup looks like this:
One context repo containing agentic workflows for going from spec -> plan
Multiple code repos
I ask the orchestrator to pull the spec and create a plan in the context repo.
Once the plan is ready, it spins up additional agents on the code repos.
The next step is obvious: let the harness continue the implementation work in parallel across all code repos, then have the orchestrator collect, summarize, and close the loop.
Seeing multi-agent systems coordinate across repos and workflows feels very different from the “single coding agent” experience we’ve all become used to.
Now I just need to clean all the work-specific stuff out so I can record a demo/tutorial video. 😅
Is this even possible on other agent desktop apps now?!
Great work
@pierceboggan,
@_Evan_Boyle and team 👏