GitHub today is making Codex AI coding agents from Cloud by Anthropic and OpenAI available directly inside GitHub. A new public preview adds cloud and codecs to GitHub, GitHub Mobile, and Visual Studio Code for users with a Copilot Pro Plus or Copilot Enterprise subscription.
The move is part of Agent HQ, GitHub’s vision to make AI agents native to how developers use GitHub every day. Developers can now choose Copilot, Cloud, Codex, or other custom agents when creating a task. Each coding agent will consume a premium request, and developers can assign agents to issues and pull requests.
Developers will also be able to gauge how Copilot, Cloud, and Codex perform and how each AI coding agent has designed the solution. “Context switching is the equivalent of friction in software development,” mario rodriguez saysChief Product Officer at GitHub. “With Codex, Cloud, and Copilot in Agent HQ, you can move from idea to implementation using different agents for different steps without switching tools or losing context.”
GitHub has been quick to adopt rival AI models and agents to improve its own Copilot offering. Developers are already able to access models from Anthropic, Google, xAI, and OpenAI in GitHub Copilot, so integrating into rival AI coding agents seems like a natural next step.
Access to the cloud and Codex will soon expand to more GitHub Copilot subscription types, and GitHub is also working with Google, Cognition, and xAI to bring more agents to GitHub, Visual Studio Code, and the Copilot CLI.
GitHub has embraced rival AI coding agents as Microsoft increasingly tests Anthropic’s cloud code tool. In an effort to improve GitHub Copilot, developers inside Microsoft have been asked to compare cloud code with GitHub Copilot.
