Mission Control: One View for All Agent Tasks

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Copilot Coding agent is generally available on github.com, but tracking what it’s doing has meant keeping multiple tabs open: one for session logs, one for the diff, one for the overview. Mission Control collapses all of that into a single screen. Bennett framed the goal plainly:

“from a fragmented experience to a fluid one” — Ellie Bennett

The view shows every running task, its status, and the full session detail without switching tabs. It launched at GitHub Universe 2025.

Steering Copilot Mid-Session and Across Devices

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Mission Control adds two steering modes. Real-time steering lets you drop a comment while Copilot is mid-task. Copilot picks it up after the current tool call completes, acknowledges the request, and adjusts. In the real-time steering demo (02:37), Bennett assigned an issue, corrected Copilot mid-session, and watched it iterate without a restart. Between-session steering works across session boundaries: leave feedback on a PR, follow “View Sessions” back to Mission Control. On mobile, the GitHub app lets you start a task on the go, then continue in VS Code Insiders at your desk.

Issue Management Without the Manual Work

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Copilot on github.com now handles three parts of the issue lifecycle. In the issue brainstorming demo (05:50), a vague idea becomes a task: Copilot asks clarifying questions, the user responds, and /task generates a structured task from that conversation. For existing issues, Copilot can rewrite a sparse description into something specific enough to assign. For bug bashes, paste a screenshot, and Copilot searches the codebase and files a ticket using the repo’s own templates. Backlog cleanup works the same way: ask Copilot to group scattered issues into a parent epic, review the relationships it drafts, and confirm.

Notable Quotes

from a fragmented experience to a fluid one Ellie Bennett · ▶ 2:16

It’s basically blowing up my human context window, Ellie Bennett · ▶ 4:06

Sometimes you don’t actually know exactly Ellie Bennett · ▶ 5:30

Key Takeaways

  • Mission Control consolidates session logs, diffs, and task status into one screen, replacing multi-tab management.
  • Real-time and between-session steering let you redirect Copilot without waiting for a full session to complete.
  • Copilot can draft, refine, and organize GitHub issues from a screenshot or a vague prompt, cutting bug-bash overhead.