Engineer Builds Super-Investigator: GitHub Copilot's Custom Agent That Maps Monster Codebases Overnight
Picture this: a sprawling codebase, ghosts of past devs' 'best practices' haunting every file. One engineer fought back with a custom GitHub Copilot agent—and won.
⚡ Key Takeaways
- Custom GitHub Copilot agents like Super-Investigator automate codebase investigations, diagramming, and reporting to Confluence/Jira. 𝕏
- Iteration from Plan/Agent modes to customs slashes setup time and boosts accuracy via persistent context. 𝕏
- This signals shift from code-gen to agentic navigation, potentially halving onboarding in large teams. 𝕏
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Originally reported by Dev.to
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