GitHub enters the terminal agent wars with Copilot CLI
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GitHub has quietly been building the most compelling answer to Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex CLI - and it just arrived as a standalone product. Copilot CLI is a terminal-native coding agent that lives outside VS Code, competes head-on with Anthropic and OpenAI's standalone tools, and leans hard into one advantage neither rival can match: native GitHub integration. "Less // TODO: done.