--- title: Copilot CLI Tutorial #11 - Delegating Tasks to the Cloud description: The final lesson in a Copilot CLI tutorial series covers how to delegate coding tasks to GitHub's cloud agents using the `delegate` command. Copilot works... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/copilot-cli-tutorial-11---delegating-tasks-to-the-cloud-k1kewfpdn twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Copilot CLI Tutorial #11 - Delegating Tasks to the Cloud | daily.dev og:description: The final lesson in a Copilot CLI tutorial series covers how to delegate coding tasks to GitHub's cloud agents using the `delegate` command. Copilot works... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/copilot-cli-tutorial-11---delegating-tasks-to-the-cloud-k1kewfpdn og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K1KEWfpdN.png og:image:alt: Copilot CLI Tutorial #11 - Delegating Tasks to the Cloud og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Copilot CLI Tutorial #11 - Delegating Tasks to the Cloud **[Net Ninja](https://daily.dev/sources/netninja)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The final lesson in a Copilot CLI tutorial series covers how to delegate coding tasks to GitHub's cloud agents using the `delegate` command. Copilot works remotely on a new branch, automatically opens a pull request, and updates it as work progresses. You can monitor the session via a web link, chat with Copilot mid-task to redirect it, and later resume the session locally by pulling down the branch and code changes into VS Code. The key benefit is running multiple independent tasks in parallel in the cloud while continuing local development simultaneously. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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