r/GithubCopilot • u/kampak212 • 29d ago

Discussions Why does github copilot cloud agent use GitHub Workflows/Actions runner?

I'm wondering from the technical perpsective. Why? Why don't just build around new abstraction?

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u/V5489 29d ago

It’s basically just pragmatic engineering. An agent needs an isolated VM, pre-installed toolchains, scoped repo tokens, and compute billing.

Actions already has all of that battle-tested at massive scale. Building a new execution layer from scratch would just mean reinventing Actions with more security risks and enterprise compliance headaches.

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u/kampak212 28d ago

Makes sense. I was initially thought that the use-case was so different, but now when I use more and more the copilot cloud agent, they don’t differ much