GitHub enters the terminal agent wars with Copilot CLI (opens in new tab)

GitHub has quietly been building the most compelling answer to Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex CLI — and it just arrived as a standalone product. Copilot CLI is a terminal-native coding agent that lives outside VS Code, competes head-on with Anthropic and OpenAI's standalone tools, and leans hard into one advantage neither rival can match: native GitHub integration. "Less // TODO: more done. Run a GitHub-native agent in your terminal that works directly with your issues and pull requests, exec...