Browse All GitHub Copilot Content (291)

Visual Studio Code Team outlines the significant updates in VS Code 1.112 Insiders, focusing on Copilot CLI improvements, chat-based image analysis, and enhanced developer features.

GitHub explains how the .github folder can standardize repository workflows—covering CI/CD automation, issue templates, and even rules that influence how GitHub Copilot behaves across projects in an organization.

Matt Soucoup announces a major update to the Awesome GitHub Copilot Customizations project: a new website, a Learning Hub, and a plugin system to make Copilot agents, skills, instructions, and automation easier to find, install, and contribute to.

Welcome to this week’s roundup. The common thread is agents moving beyond “helpful chat” into real execution across IDEs, terminals, CI, and cloud operations. Copilot’s latest changes focus on autonomy and repeatable behavior through repo-visible instruction files, lifecycle hooks, clearer model routing, and faster PR review workflows, while modernization tooling ties assessments and plans directly to issues and pull requests. In parallel, the rest of the stack is catching up to the day-to-day requirements of running agents like software: traces and debugging loops, structured outputs and schema enforcement, and clearer guardrails around approvals, secrets, and identity-based access.

Visual Studio Code shares a walkthrough with Justin and James on VS Code’s evolving chat UX and Autopilot (Insiders preview), covering how agent-style workflows can auto-approve tools, iterate toward a task_complete signal, and how the new permissions picker and input bar changes affect safe, hands-off usage.

carlottacaste walks through an end-to-end workflow for taking an agent from prototype to production using the AI Toolkit in VS Code and Microsoft Foundry, covering model selection, agent setup, migration to hosted code, deployment, and ongoing evaluation/monitoring.

GitHub shows how to use GitHub Copilot to help write code for a robot dog project, generating a custom servo “greeting” sequence that triggers when a Raspberry Pi 5 camera detects a human face.

Allison announces a new option in GitHub that lets repository administrators skip manual approval for GitHub Actions workflows triggered by Copilot coding agent, balancing workflow speed and security.

NagaSurendran details practical strategies for organizations migrating from Heroku, focusing on how Azure and its integrated tools—including GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Foundry—enable modern, secure, and intelligent cloud-native applications.

Allison announces a significant update for students as GitHub introduces the Copilot Student plan, offering a dedicated and AI-enhanced coding assistant tailored for educational use.

Pierce Boggan details how the VS Code team integrates AI and GitHub Copilot to streamline their development pipeline, covering automated code review, release cadence acceleration, and quality management strategies.

Randy Pagels shares practical tips for developers to maximize GitHub Copilot's effectiveness by providing better context and intent, rather than relying on longer prompts.

GitHub presents a beginner’s tutorial on using the interactive and non-interactive modes of the Copilot CLI, showing developers how to efficiently prompt Copilot from the terminal.

Mika Dumont explores how the modernize-dotnet agent empowers developers to modernize .NET projects from Visual Studio, VS Code, the Copilot CLI, or even directly on GitHub, generating structured upgrade plans and supporting custom workflows.

Carie Fisher explains how GitHub leverages GitHub Copilot, AI automation, and developer-centric workflows to turn accessibility feedback into actionable, continuously resolved issues. The piece details technical approaches, architecture, and human-in-the-loop best practices for delivering more inclusive code.

Allison presents the general availability of GitHub Copilot’s auto model selection in JetBrains IDEs, highlighting new flexibility and billing improvements for developers.

Jakub Oleksy presents a thorough incident report detailing GitHub's six major outages in February 2026, with insights on DevOps impact, Copilot disruptions, and ongoing platform reliability improvements.

Allison introduces a GitHub CLI update that enables developers to request Copilot code reviews directly from the terminal, improving code workflow and reviewer selection performance.

GitHub demonstrates how developers can speed up open source maintenance using the Copilot CLI’s /fleet command, allowing multiple tasks to be handled by Copilot agents in parallel.

shashban presents an overview of the Azure Copilot Migration Agent, highlighting its integration with GitHub Copilot to simplify, accelerate, and govern large-scale Azure migrations for developers and IT teams.