How to bring your software delivery workflow into GitHub with agent apps
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Sam Zhang
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Sam Zhang
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
agent harness — The scaffolding around a model that turns it into a working agent — the loop, the tools it can call, and the rules for when to stop.
Why it matters
Analytics, dependency risk, feature flags, and incident state can now be queried by AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → from inside a pull request rather than four separate tools, using the same agent harnessThe scaffolding around a model that turns it into a working agent — the loop, the tools it can call, and the rules for when to stop.Full definition → that backs the Copilot cloud agent.
