GitHub Squad: Repository-Native Coordinated AI Agent Teams

Summary

GitHub published details on Squad, an open-source multi-agent development project built on GitHub Copilot that deploys a preconfigured team of four specialized AI agents — lead coordinator, frontend developer, backend developer, and tester — directly into any repository via two setup commands. Squad demonstrates a repository-native approach to multi-agent orchestration: rather than routing tasks through a centralized orchestration layer, agents work in parallel with independent 200K-token contex