Skip to content

Update instructions for steering agent conversations #43829

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Open
Brenduns wants to merge 3 commits into
base: main
Choose a base branch
from
+3 −1
Open

Update instructions for steering agent conversations #43829

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
3 commits
Select commit Hold shift + click to select a range
b61b12f
Update instructions for steering agent conversations
Brenduns Apr 15, 2026
38ed0c0
Update content/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/use-copilot-cli-agents/ste…
Brenduns Apr 15, 2026
8b543b6
Update content/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/use-copilot-cli-agents/ste…
Brenduns Apr 15, 2026
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion content/copilot/how-tos/copilot-cli/use-copilot-cli-agents/steer-agents.md
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ docsTeamMetrics:

## Steer the conversation while {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} is thinking

You can interact with {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} while it's thinking. Send follow-up messages to steer the conversation in a different direction, or queue additional instructions for {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} to process after it finishes its current response.
While {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} is actively working on a task, you can enter a new prompt at any time. Any input you send while {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} is thinking is treated as steering and is considered in the context of the current task.

There is no separate instruction queue. To provide additional instructions, simply enter another prompt while {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} is running. {% data variables.product.prodname_copilot_short %} processes each message in order as part of the active task.

Steering lets you:

Expand Down
Loading