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background-agent
Use when a task is too long to block the current session or should run autonomously — delegates to a cloud background agent via & or /delegate so work can continue on GitHub while you keep moving locally, not in a local async PowerShell session.
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# Background Delegation
## What It Is
**Background Delegation** hands off tasks to a cloud-based Copilot coding agent on GitHub.
Your terminal is immediately freed. The agent works on a branch in GitHub and opens an
AI-generated pull request (against the current branch by default; choose another target with
/delegate --base). You review the result in that PR.
This is distinct from async PowerShell (for local long-running processes like builds/servers),
which still uses `mode: "async"` in the powershell tool.
## When to Use
