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Natalie Guevara explains how GitHub Copilot is improving token efficiency in longer sessions by caching repeated prompt context, loading tool definitions on demand, and routing requests to the best-fit model via Auto model selection. The post also shares practical habits for reducing credit burn in day-to-day Copilot workflows.

GitHub announces the general availability of the GitHub Copilot app, a native desktop experience focused on agent-driven development. GitHub highlights starting sessions from issues and pull requests, running work in parallel, and using a unified workspace with full GitHub context to take tasks from issue to merge.

Allison announces a new GitHub Copilot enterprise governance control that lets admins disable bypassing permission prompts (“yolo mode” / auto-approve) in Copilot clients. The update explains where to place the enterprise-managed settings file, how it’s applied to licensed users, and which VS Code versions respect the policy.

Jan Krivanek introduces the Microsoft Binlog MCP Server, an MCP server that lets AI assistants (including GitHub Copilot) query MSBuild .binlog files using 15 purpose-built tools for failure diagnosis, property tracing, performance bottleneck analysis, and build-to-build comparisons across Visual Studio, VS Code, and CLI workflows.

Allison announces general availability of auto model selection in GitHub Copilot Chat on github.com and the GitHub mobile app, explaining how auto routes requests to different AI models based on task complexity and real-time availability, and how it affects transparency, policy controls, and token billing.

Allison announces GitHub Copilot’s new agent finder, which discovers and ranks agent capabilities from a registry you choose, with enterprise controls over what resources can be surfaced and used.

GitHub shares how ASOS adopted GitHub Copilot after migrating to GitHub, focusing on reducing developer toil and speeding up delivery. It highlights using Copilot to streamline pull requests and building custom AI agents so engineers can spend less time on routine work and more time shipping features.

Visual Studio Code shares a quick set of “top tips” from the engineering team, highlighting practical editor features like subagents, favorite shortcuts, and a few hidden easter eggs, plus a mention of event agent markdown files and GitHub Copilot-related workflows.

Allison announces that GitHub Copilot individual plan sign-ups are reopening (Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max) and outlines immediate changes to how upgrades and continued usage work when you approach included usage and spending limits.

Allison announces the general availability of the GitHub Copilot app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, positioning it as a desktop workflow for agent-driven development. The post highlights starting sessions from issues or pull requests, running parallel sessions per repo, reviewing diffs, and using canvases, cloud automations, and MCP-connected tools.

Ryan Caldwell and Bhavya U explain how the VS Code team is reducing GitHub Copilot’s token usage (and improving latency) in agentic sessions, with concrete changes to prompt caching, tool-definition loading, and transport choices across OpenAI and Anthropic models.

Natalie Guevara explains Git worktrees as a practical way to work on multiple branches at once without stashing or constantly switching contexts, and shows the core commands plus the trade-offs to watch for. The article also connects worktrees to parallel workflows used by tools like the GitHub Copilot app.

Pamela Fox presents a practical design discussion on building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for PostgreSQL, focusing on how tool interfaces affect LLM query accuracy and safety. She compares free-form SQL vs typed tools, and walks through common failure modes like SQL injection, risky mutations, and expensive queries.

Matt McFarland explains how PostgreSQL developer tooling is being extended from the VS Code PostgreSQL extension into AI-driven environments like Cursor and the GitHub Copilot CLI, using an MCP server as a shared interface for connections, queries, schema inspection, and performance analysis.

dotnet presents a session on using GitHub Copilot to modernize legacy .NET Framework applications, focusing on AI-assisted workflows to assess, plan, and execute upgrades to the latest .NET with less manual effort and lower migration risk.

James Montemagno, Burke Holland, and Pierce Boggan demo “vibe coding” workflows in VS Code using Claude Fable 5 with GitHub Copilot, focusing on what the model enables for day-to-day AI-assisted coding and how it fits into real development habits.

Reynald Adolphe, Kyle Cutler, Giuseppe Ciance, and Vritant Bhardwaj recap the major Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot updates from the past month, with demos of features like the Integrated Browser, Issue Reporting improvements, and BYOK enhancements.

Visual Studio Code introduces “bring your own key” support, letting developers use their own model provider API keys with VS Code and GitHub Copilot without signing in, and points to the setup guide for enabling expanded model choice.

GitHub shows how the GitHub Copilot app helps move work from an issue to a merged pull request, using features like plan mode and agent merge to guide agentic changes, handle CI failures, and land PRs with more control.

Anavi Nahar rounds up Azure Databricks announcements and sessions from Databricks Data + AI Summit 2026, focusing on tighter interoperability with Microsoft’s data stack (OneLake, ADLS) and governed access via Unity Catalog, plus new integrations like the Excel add-in, SharePoint ingestion, and OneLake catalog federation.

Allison explains an update to GitHub Copilot enterprise usage reporting: usage metrics now combine server-side telemetry with client-side IDE signals, so more active (billed) users appear in single-day and 28-day reports, even when client telemetry doesn’t reach GitHub.

Natalie Guevara introduces the most useful slash commands in GitHub Copilot CLI, showing how to control the terminal agent by switching models, checking token/context usage, resuming sessions, reviewing diffs, changing directories, and resetting tool permissions.

Ayan Gupta, Sandra Ahlgrimm, and Yoshio Terada show how GitHub Copilot can be used to modernize a legacy Java application through a structured workflow, using a real migration from Java 5/Struts to Java 21/Spring Boot and finishing with deployment to Azure.

GitHub shares a GitHub Checkout episode where Andrea and James Clancey walk through the agent-first GitHub Copilot desktop app, focusing on parallel agent workflows, using git working trees for isolation, and features like agent merge, MCP integrations, and supported model options including local models.

This week in GitHub Copilot, the story is less about new prompts and more about where agent work runs, how it gets reviewed, and how teams operate it safely. The Copilot desktop app expands in preview with canvases, voice input, isolated worktrees, and sandboxes, pushing agent workflows into a separate, reviewable workspace outside the editor. On the ops side, agentic workflows can now use GITHUB_TOKEN instead of PATs, Copilot Chat on the web surfaces cloud agent sessions and searchable history, and Copilot CLI and Code Review add configuration and governance controls (plus a new terminal security review command). We also saw Copilot features land deeper in Azure DevOps and Azure Repos, and model and platform news (Claude Fable 5 in Foundry) that reinforces how much governance, monitoring, and cost controls shape real agent adoption.

GitHub highlights a major update to the GitHub Copilot desktop app announced at Microsoft Build, focusing on new preview features aimed at safer, more agent-native local development workflows.

Kyle Daigle highlights what developers can do with the GitHub Copilot app and notes that anyone on a paid Copilot plan can access it now.

Dylan Birtolo explains a Copilot CLI rollout that makes subagent delegation more selective, reducing unnecessary handoffs and improving reliability and wait times. The post breaks down the delegation failure modes they observed, the orchestration policy changes they shipped, and how they validated the impact with offline tests and production A/B experiments.

Allison announces new controls for GitHub Copilot code review, including organization-level runner configuration (GitHub-hosted, self-hosted, or large runners), support for Copilot content exclusions at repo/org/enterprise scope, and removal of the 4,000-character limit for repository custom instruction files.

Christina Warren recaps developer news from Microsoft Build and GitHub, including updates to the GitHub Copilot desktop app (cloud and local sandboxes) and the general availability of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 model for Copilot, plus a quick look at GitHub Universe and an open source project spotlight.

John Savill rounds up a week of Azure platform changes and retirements, spanning compute/storage updates, database and identity improvements, monitoring changes, and several developer-facing AI items including GitHub Copilot Agent Mode in SSMS and Azure AI Foundry agent licensing and model availability.

Visual Studio Code shares a quick walkthrough of three MCP servers they use daily in VS Code—GitHub, Playwright, and Microsoft Learn—to extend GitHub Copilot Agent mode for PR review, real-browser testing, and pulling up-to-date documentation as context.

Carlos Robles demonstrates new capabilities in the MSSQL extension for VS Code, including spec-driven development with GitHub Copilot, AI-assisted schema design with Schema Designer, and generating REST and GraphQL endpoints using Data API builder and MCP to get from a spec to a running API inside the editor.

Natalie Guevara summarizes GitHub’s May 2026 availability incidents and the reliability work underway, including moving parts of the monolith to Azure, isolating database domains, and hardening GitHub Actions and Copilot services against cascading failures.

Visual Studio Code highlights new Integrated Browser improvements in VS Code, including saving browser favorites, taking full-page or region screenshots, and using browser content as context for GitHub Copilot and agent workflows.

Allison announces a new /settings command in GitHub Copilot CLI that centralizes configuration into a schema-driven interface, supporting an interactive full-screen dialog, inline one-liners, and reset-to-default workflows with tab-completed keys and validation.

Dan Wahlin demonstrates an “agentic journey” workflow that takes an app idea through planning, coding, infrastructure creation, and deployment to Azure, using GitHub Copilot CLI and Azure skills to handle tasks like Bicep templates, health probes, and database wiring for an app backed by Azure SQL and Microsoft Foundry.

Allison announces that GitHub Agentic Workflows can now authenticate using GitHub Actions’ built-in GITHUB_TOKEN instead of a personal access token, reducing the risk of long-lived credentials and enabling organization-level billing for Copilot CLI usage in agentic workflows.

Laura Jiang announces Copilot Autofix in limited private preview for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, which generates suggested fixes for supported CodeQL alerts and turns them into pull requests. The post explains what’s covered in preview, how the workflow fits into existing review gates, and how usage is billed via Azure.

Mario Toffia and Priyanka Sharma share a practical look at AI-assisted coding workflows, comparing Claude Code + Cursor with GitHub Copilot CLI and focusing on what works, what breaks down, and how teams can scale usage without losing control over sensitive infrastructure.