# GitHub says one engineer and agents ported Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines

GitHub said one engineer and a team of agents ported the GitHub Copilot agent runtime to Rust, shipping 800,000 lines of production code while retaining code quality.

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Source: GitHub · Published 9/21/2026, 11:33:11

GitHub said **one engineer and a team of agents** ported the **GitHub Copilot agent runtime to Rust**, shipping **800,000 lines of production code** while retaining code quality.

The company pointed to a write-up on how the migration worked: [Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust using Copilot](https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/generative-ai/migrating-the-github-copilot-runtime-to-rust-using-copilot/?utm_source=x-copilot-rust&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=github-app-cli-Q1-push).

Tags: GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Rust, AI agents

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