GitHub Copilot Automations can now be shared across a team

GitHub says shared Copilot Automations are rolling out. Until now automations were personal, run with the creator's identity and AI credits. A shared automation belongs to the repository: anyone with read access can see it and anyone with write access can edit it, with change history. Its AI credits are billed to the organization or user that owns the repository, its actions are attributed to Copilot, and it keeps running if its creator leaves the team. Example automations: reproduce a bug when an issue is opened, capture screenshots when a pull request is ready, investigate production incidents when a monitoring tool detects them.

Choose Shared under Type when creating an automation on github.com, in the Copilot app or in VS Code; the type cannot be changed afterwards. The rollout covers Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business and Enterprise, and availability may vary. In organization-owned repositories an administrator must enable the "Allow use of Copilot cloud agent billed to the organization" policy.