#jira

GitHub has launched a public preview that lets teams assign Jira issues directly to the Copilot coding agent and receive AI-generated draft pull requests in GitHub. The company says the integration reduces context switching while preserving existing review and approval controls.

GitHub moved Copilot’s coding agent for Jira into public preview on March 5, 2026. Teams can assign Jira Cloud issues to the agent, let it implement changes in a connected repository, open a draft pull request, and post progress back into Jira.