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Allison explains upcoming GitHub Copilot limit changes aimed at improving service reliability, including rate limiting behavior, guidance to switch models or use Auto mode, and the retirement of Opus 4.6 Fast for Copilot Pro+ users.

Allison announces updates to the GitHub Copilot usage metrics API, adding aggregated daily, weekly, and monthly active user counts for Copilot cloud agent (formerly Copilot coding agent) in enterprise and organization reports.

Allison announces a temporary pause on new GitHub Copilot Pro free trials due to increased abuse, while GitHub investigates and adds stronger safeguards; existing trials and paid options (including Copilot Free) continue to work as normal.

Allison explains an update to the GitHub Copilot usage metrics API where Copilot CLI activity is now included in top-level totals and feature breakdowns, changing how enterprise and organization dashboards should interpret usage fields.

GitHub (with program manager Lee Reilly) shows how GitHub Copilot CLI was used to build GH-Dungeons, a terminal roguelike generated from a repository’s latest SHA, turning typical repo problems like scope creep and merge conflicts into dungeon hazards.

Christopher Harrison introduces GitHub Copilot CLI with a beginner-friendly walkthrough: install via npm, authenticate, grant folder permissions, and start prompting Copilot from your terminal (including delegating work to the Copilot cloud agent).

Allison shares a GitHub update: Copilot cloud agent now runs its built-in security and quality validation tools in parallel, cutting validation time by about 20%, while keeping the same checks (CodeQL, secret scanning, Advisory Database, and Copilot code review).

Emanuele Bartolesi shows how to point GitHub Copilot CLI at an Azure AI Foundry (Azure OpenAI) deployment using a BYOK-style setup, including how to deploy a model, build the correct endpoint URL, set the required environment variables, and validate the connection.

Arnaud Lheureux, davidwright, and sdaniels walk through a hands-on “agentic platform engineering” demo using Git-ape inside VS Code, where GitHub Copilot agents (via Azure MCP) can deploy and manage Azure infrastructure through validated, policy-aware actions.

GitHub interviews Copilot CLI Product Manager Ryan Hecht on GitHub Checkout, covering experimental Copilot CLI features like a plugin marketplace, the /chronicle command, multi-model agents, and fleet mode/autopilot for large refactors.

Dylan Birtolo announces that organization admins and security managers can now open a GitHub Copilot experience from Code Security and secret risk assessment results to get contextual explanations and guided next steps.

Microsoft Developer shares a Budget Bites season finale discussion with Microsoft leaders on what “budget-smart” AI app building looks like, covering cost realities, Azure SQL scaling (including Hyperscale), and how GitHub Copilot and agents can reduce operational work.

Microsoft Developer walks through using GitHub Copilot with the VS Code MSSQL extension to control Copilot context for T-SQL—covering custom instruction files, Plan Mode/Agent Mode for schema design, skills as slash commands, and inspecting Copilot’s debug payload while targeting SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL Database.

Emanuele Bartolesi explains how to run GitHub Copilot CLI against a local LLM via LM Studio’s OpenAI-compatible API, including the exact PowerShell environment variables needed to avoid cloud fallback and when this offline setup is (and isn’t) worth using.

Jakub Oleksy summarizes four March 2026 GitHub incidents, including outages affecting github.com/API, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Copilot/Copilot Coding Agent, with root causes (caching, Redis config, auth/credentials) and concrete mitigations like rollbacks, improved monitoring, and configuration safeguards.

Allison announces new GitHub Copilot usage metrics API fields that measure how Copilot code review affects pull request merges and time-to-merge, enabling enterprise and org owners to track adoption and review impact across reporting windows.

Allison announces that GitHub Mobile now supports expanded GitHub Copilot cloud agent workflows, letting developers research a codebase, plan changes, edit code on a branch, review diffs, and open pull requests directly from a mobile device.

jordanselig walks through building an MCP App (a tool plus a UI resource) with ASP.NET Core, rendering an interactive weather widget inside chat clients like VS Code Copilot, and deploying the MCP server to Azure App Service using azd and Bicep.

Rachel Cohen shares a call for sessions for GitHub Universe (Oct 28–29) and highlights five memorable past talks—covering Git workflow tips, secure GitHub Actions patterns with Copilot, GitHub Advanced Security, Kubernetes security training themes, and Copilot Autofix-style AI-assisted remediation.

Allison summarizes the March/early April 2026 GitHub Copilot updates in VS Code (v1.111–v1.115), focusing on more autonomous agent sessions (Autopilot), expanded debugging and multimodal chat capabilities, and improved customization and troubleshooting tools.