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Copilot Agentic Autofix Now Uses Memory
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- →Agentic autofix now persists knowledge, reducing repetitive work on similar security issues.
- →Fixes become reusable context for other Copilot features like code review and cloud agents.
- →Teams can build a repository-specific library of secure coding patterns automatically.
GitHub has updated its agentic autofix feature to leverage Copilot Memory for customers who have enabled the capability. When resolving security alerts, the agent now reviews existing memories for context and stores new fix patterns as reusable knowledge. These stored patterns are designed to help agentic autofix resolve future alerts more efficiently and inform other Copilot features, such as code review and cloud agents, about repository-specific secure development practices. Both agentic autofix and Copilot Memory remain in public preview.
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