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You can now continue working on any Copilot CLI session - right from your phone. Or from anywhere.
Whether you're in the terminal or in VS Code, you can keep Copilot moving even when you step away from your desk.
Here's how it works.
I've got my link sharing website open in the terminal and I've given Copilot a task — create a plan for a new feature that will allow me to favorite or pin certain links to the top of the share page.
The plan is ready to be implemented and I want to walk away and keep working on this. I type /remote on. This enables remote access via a web interface, secured by my GitHub login — and your sessions are private, only visible to you. And I could continue right from here.
Pressing Ctrl+E gives me a QR code. I scan that with my phone, and now I'm looking at this same live session right on my phone. But if you have the GitHub App installed, you get something ebetter than a browser tab - a native app experience. My sessions appear right in the Copilot tab. I can kick off the implementation of this feature and see the agent's activity streaming live. I can answer questions, approve or deny tool calls, even review diffs. I can even queue up my next message while the current step is still running. And when the agent is finished implementing the feature, I can have it open a PR just by asking for it.
And you can access multiple remote sessions across projects as well. On the web my sessions show up at github.com/agents and I can see which remote sessions I've got access to. In the GitHub App, everything appears under Copilot, and I have the same access to all of my sessions.
And because the Copilot CLI and VS Code are seamlessly integrated, I can open this same remote session from the CLI in VS Code Chat - no restart - no losing my place. And because it's all the same CLI under the hood, I can type /remote on right here in VS Code chat — and get the exact same experience. QR code, web interface, GitHub Mobile app. One command. Works everywhere.
And none of this requires GitHub for source control. It works with any provider, or no source control at all. All you need is a GitHub login and you're good to go. Literally.
Remote is available today in the Copilot CLI and Visual Studio Code. Just hit /remote on — from your terminal, or from VS Code — and access Copilot wherever and whenever you need it.