VS Code engineer Justin Chen discusses the new Autopilot mode coming to VS Code Copilot chat. The episode covers three permission modes in the new permissions picker: default approvals (uses configured settings), bypass approvals (auto-approves most tools), and autopilot (fully autonomous iteration until task completion). Autopilot uses a modified system prompt and a 'task complete' tool to let the agent loop autonomously without user input, auto-replying to questions and retrying up to five times. It integrates with plan mode to automatically hand off from planning to implementation. Justin shares his personal workflow of running multiple parallel autopilot sessions on GitHub issues, reviewing only the final results.
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