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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*

Might be easier to do that in Copilot on Github itself?

"on GitHub itself" - I've got VSCode with my local git clone, I don't want to do that elsewhere. Ideally I'd just do it from a single place, which I've been doing this morning by just asking Copilot to call the GitHub CLI to test the workflow and check for status and output

I mean, if you are relying on changes pushed to github, and on Github CI as source of truth for whether it works, it just seems easier to avoid local clone altogether, and let it keep working on problem even when you are offline. But that's just me.

It's slightly simpler because it doesn't need you to have local clone altogether, just iterates on the PR directly. Here are the official docs and explanation of how it differs from Copilot in IDE: docs.github.com/en/enterpris...