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Run the plan on background agent

Run the plan on background agent

From the course: AI-Powered Development: GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code

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Run the plan on background agent

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Once you have the markdown plan, you have two main ways to proceed. The best way depends on how much control you want during implementation. Before we talk about that, some housekeeping, I clicked on the keep button to save the changes in this markdown file. Option number 1 for implementation is full auto. I could come down here when I'm in plan mode, and I can start the implementation and choose continue in background or continue in the Cloud, or I could switch over to the agent mode and run it there. When I do that, Copilot will attempt to execute the entire plan end-to-end. It converts the markdown plan into a sidebar to-do list and works through the steps in order, running commands, editing files, and iterating when something fails, including rerunning tests and fixing errors it encounters. It's really incredible to watch. With this approach, you typically review the finished result at the end as a branch or pull request. So that's our first option. The other option is what I'm…

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