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Techorama 2026 - Building an agent into any app using the GitHub Copilot SDK

Techorama 2026 was a blast! Great content, great atmosphere and great people. And of course, the main conversation topic was AI and how it will shape our industry. Nobody knows what is coming next but at least we already got a glimpse into the future.

I delivered a presentation about integrating the GitHub Copilot SDK into your application and hopefully proved how easy it is to get an agent running inside your systems.

AI is moving from assistants we query to agents that collaborate with us inside our applications. By reusing the same agentic loop behind the Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK makes that shift practical for every developer. In this session, we explore how to embed GitHub Copilot–powered agents directly into your apps, extend them with custom skills, and connect them to your own data and workflows. You’ll see how to design agent behaviors, orchestrate tool use, and create safe, reliable interactions that feel native to your product.


Whether you’re building personal productivity tools or enterprise workflows, you’ll walk away with a clear blueprint for turning your application into an AI‑augmented teammate.

In case you missed my presentation, you can find the slides here:

presentations/Techorama - 2026 at main · wullemsb/presentations

I also showed a lot of demos. Here is the overview of what I shared:

  • OLAF:
    • A command line interface to interact with the GitHub Copilot CLI harness that builds itself. It has a built-in extension mechanism allowing you to introduce new functionality in the command line during execution. It uses dynamic compilation and the Copilot SDK to create your own tailored coding CLI tool.
    • wullemsb/OLAF

 

  • The Oracle:
    • An automatic code reviewer that hooks into the Azure DevOps PR system. Once a PR is assigned to the Oracle, it will evaluate and review the provided changes.
    • wullemsb/AzureDevOpsCodeReviewer

Some other demo’s I showed that I didn’t create myself:

Check out the code to see what is possible and get inspired.

And if you want to get started, use the available skills or instructions for the GitHub Copilot SDK:

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