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Gazit wrote an Astro upgrade workflow in about three lines of plain English, and Copilot expanded it into a playbook that carried his site up two major versions, fixed what broke, and opened a pull request. His point: prompting an agent to behave is not a guardrail; permissions, tools, and network access get declared deterministically.
In plain words
- GitHub Copilot automatically upgraded Idan Gazit's Astro website from version 5 to version 7.
- Gazit wrote about three lines of everyday instructions, which Copilot expanded into a detailed series of upgrade steps.
- It found releases, read update guides, repaired broken code, and checked that the website could still be created successfully.
- Fixed settings restricted what the automation could access and what results it could produce.
- This approach lets website owners automate upgrades while placing firm limits on what the automation can do.
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