Bringing your Copilot work into one place

Real development rarely follows a straight line. You fix a bug, review a pull request, and chase a new idea, often in the same sitting. As you hand more tasks to Copilot and open additional pull requests, keeping track of everything becomes its own job. The My work pane in the GitHub Copilot app is designed to solve that problem by centralizing your pull requests and issues in a single, manageable spot.

The default views

Opening the My work tab reveals three prebuilt views:

  • All — every pull request and issue in one list.
  • Active — only open pull requests and issues.
  • Review requests — pull requests where someone has asked for your review.
  • Done — everything that’s been closed.

The list is automatically filtered to projects you’ve touched inside the Copilot app, not every repository you have access to. If a repo is missing, create a quick session pointing to it and it will appear.

Building custom views

The built-in filters are a starting point, but you can define your own. Select New view, rename the placeholder to something like “My issues,” and start adding filters. You can type them using the familiar angle-bracket syntax from GitHub or use the point-and-click UI, which is often easier when you’re just getting started.

For example, a “My issues” view might combine Is:Issue with Assignee:Me to show every issue assigned to you. After saving, the view persists for quick access.

You can also adjust sorting on the fly. Instead of the default Recently updated order, switch to Ascending to bring the oldest items to the top. From there, save the changes to a new view, update the current one, or discard them to revert.

List view vs. table view

Items appear in a card-style list view by default, which works well for scanning. For more control, switch to the table view. Tables let you choose which columns appear, rearrange them, and resize them. If you experiment and want to start over, you can reset everything back to the default layout or return to the list view at any time.

Spinning up sessions from issues and pull requests

Any issue or pull request in the pane can become the starting point for a new Copilot session. Select an item and tell Copilot to get to work on it; the issue serves as the context for the session.

You can also select multiple items at once and use the Actions menu to create sessions from them. This works well in two scenarios:

  • Independent feature requests each get their own focused session.
  • Related bug reports pointing to the same feature can be bundled into a single session.

In either case, you can change the repository Copilot uses for the session. That’s handy when the repo hosting the issue is separate from the one containing the code.

Repository scope and quick issue creation

Two additional controls sit near the top of the pane. The repository filter defaults to All Repositories, but as with the main list, that scope is limited to repos you’ve already touched inside the Copilot app.

The New issue button lets you file an issue without leaving the pane. For example, to request a light mode toggle, create the issue and Copilot can immediately kick off a session using that issue as its starting context.

The My work pane consolidates active, pending, and completed work into one surface. Custom views, flexible layouts, and one-click session creation make it easier to assign tasks to Copilot and keep your attention on what matters next.