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What's the best way to get GitHub Copilot in agent mode inside VSCode to repeatedly make modifications to be executed in a GitHub Actions workflow, check the results, then iterate until the workflow runs successfully? It's great at automatically building, running and fixing stuff *locally*

I would imagine you give it strict acceptance instructions in your custom instruction file and guidance with examples for how to test.

Hopefully someone has already gone through the pain? Is there an MCP server for GitHub Actions yet? Otherwise I'm thinking Copilot could be instructed to call the GitHub CLI with a flow that pushes to a branch, triggers a workflow, checks the logs, etc.

I told it to start using the GitHub CLI, and it did. It would still be nice to have this more deeply integrated though, especially when it comes to watching workflow runs, instead of polling to then pull the logs, etc.