GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases Kayla Cinnamon · @cinnamon-msft September 25, 2026 | 3 minutes Share: Most tools give you a fixed set of screens and ask you to fit your work into them. But what if you could start with the workflow you want instead and have the interface take shape around it?

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• Kayla Cinnamon · @cinnamon-msft September 25, 2026 | 3 minutes Share: Most tools give you a fixed set of screens and ask you to fit your work into them.
• But what if you could start with the workflow you want instead and have the interface take shape around it?
• That’s the idea behind canvases in the GitHub Copilot app .
• A canvas, also called a canvas extension, is a customizable interface that you and the agent share.
• It can be a kanban board, an issue triage board, a release checklist, a dashboard, a form, or even a spreadsheet: a UI shaped to how you work.
• Because the canvas is bidirectional, the agent can update it as it works, and you can use buttons, cards, filters, and other controls to make changes too.