# GitHub guide walks developers through agentic engineering with Copilot across plan, build, verify

> Original title: Beyond code generation: A developer’s guide to agentic engineering

- Source: GitHub Blog · AI & ML
- Published: 2026-11-06T22:15:59.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/b9rh9u7pm5cdz6ywseviexlzx
- Original: https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/beyond-code-generation-a-developers-guide-to-agentic-engineering/

## Summary

GitHub publishes a guide to agentic engineering that covers planning, building, verifying, and observing software work with Copilot and GitHub Agentic Workflows. The article cites a Faros AI study finding pull requests spent 441% longer in review when teams moved from low to high AI adoption. It describes Copilot features such as Plan Mode, cloud sandboxes, and isolated repository copies for parallel tasks.