How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code

The agent has finished the bulk of your change. Now you want to inspect one implementation detail, adjust a few lines by hand, and run the project locally before you ship it.

But the work is sitting in the GitHub Copilot app … and your editor is where you review diffs, debug code, and make final adjustments. Do you have to choose between staying in the session and starting over in Visual Studio Code?

You don’t. You can open the Copilot app session directly in VS Code and continue with its conversation, code changes, and working context intact. That means Copilot can handle the repetitive or time-consuming work, then hand control back to you for closer review, hands-on editing, and local testing.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to:

Review the agent’s changes line by line.

Continue the same conversation from your editor.

Push your updates to the pull request associated with the session.

The GitHub Copilot app installed and …