Browse GitHub Copilot News (203)

Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot in Slack and Microsoft Teams, including multi-repo support in a single conversation plus improvements to mentions, repository switching, Slack thread context, and overall reliability.

Martin Woodward explains how GitHub Copilot’s agentic workflows are shifting development from issuing commands to expressing intent, and why “ambient intelligence” needs strong context, clear boundaries, and developer control. He also shares a practical example: mapping Copilot actions to physical controls like the Logitech MX Keypad.

Allison announces a November 16, 2026 deprecation of several AI models across GitHub Copilot experiences, and explains what admins and teams need to do to keep Copilot Chat, agent modes, and other Copilot features working with supported alternatives.

Allison announces general availability of agentic autofix for GitHub code scanning alerts, where Copilot explores the codebase, proposes and validates fixes with CodeQL, and opens a draft pull request. The post also covers where it can be used, required policies and permissions, and how billing works with AI Credits and Actions minutes.

Allison announces updates to HydraFusion in GitHub Copilot, including a refreshed frontier-model pool, improved Cascade and Critique orchestration workflows, and a new HydraFusion Max option for deeper reasoning on demanding tasks across VS Code, the Copilot app, and Copilot CLI.

Jakub Oleksy reports on GitHub’s September 2026 reliability work and incidents, including database pressure reductions, overload controls, added headroom for GitHub Actions, expanded failure containment for pull requests, and progress moving production workloads and traffic to Azure.

James Rempt shares takeaways from VSLive! San Diego on how experienced Visual Studio developers are adopting GitHub Copilot and other AI tools, while spending more time validating generated code and leaning on hands-on learning. The post also highlights how Visual Studio Subscription benefits support ongoing skill-building.

Allison announces general availability of the Gemini 4 Argon model in GitHub Copilot, including where developers can select it, which Copilot plans get access, and how admins can control availability via model policy and default model enablement settings.

mk_sunitha introduces Fabric App functions (preview), a TypeScript-based serverless capability for Fabric Apps that lets builders run secure server-side logic, use application authentication to access downstream resources, and manage secrets safely. The post also shows how to scaffold, debug, and deploy functions, including using GitHub Copilot in VS Code.

Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot enterprise managed settings enforcement, including a startup policy freshness requirement and minimum client version enforcement for the sandbox managed setting key.

Allison announces new GitHub Copilot enterprise managed telemetry controls that let admins attribute Copilot activity to a specific user while keeping prompts, responses, and tool content disabled by default, with fine-grained OpenTelemetry capture settings across Copilot CLI, the Copilot app, and VS Code Agent Host sessions.

Christopher Harrison explains how to make GitHub Copilot more effective on a real codebase by storing project context in the repo. He covers repository and path-specific instructions, reusable “agent skills” for repeatable procedures, custom agents for broader work, and MCP servers (including Playwright) to connect Copilot to external tools.

Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains, including enterprise-managed default agent models, a new “Fix” action from diagnostics that opens inline chat, and controls for MCP server startup. The release also improves chat navigation and account UX, boosts reliability, and drops support for JetBrains IDE 2025.1.

Allison summarizes the October 5 weekly GitHub Copilot releases, covering a new Claude Haiku 5.5 model option, generally available local sandboxing controls for agent sessions, Copilot app account separation for licensing vs repos, Copilot CLI local model discovery via Ollama, and new VS Code agent-session management features.

Allison announces new admin controls for GitHub Copilot code review, including organization-level billing options to avoid consuming individual member quotas and policy settings that restrict who can trigger Copilot review requests when external/personal licenses are involved.

sbaynes explains how GitHub Copilot is rolling out local, on-device AI coding on new Windows PCs, including automatic routing between local and cloud models, a new MAI Code 1.1 Flash local model build, and sandboxed tool execution using Microsoft Execution Containers (MXC).

Allison announces that Claude Haiku 5.5 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot, positioned as a lightweight model for fast, high-volume coding tasks like subagents, quick edits, and terminal workflows, with access controlled via Copilot plan entitlements and enterprise model policies.

Erin Havens shares GitHub data showing secret leaks are scaling with the volume of code being pushed, then explains how GitHub Secret Protection is using a fast ModernBERT-based classifier to improve push protection for unstructured secrets and reduce the human cost of remediation.

Allison announces a new fine-tuned GitHub model for context-aware leaked secret detection across secret scanning alerts, push protection, and GitHub Copilot /security-review. The post explains what’s changing, where it’s available (including GHES 3.23), and how AI Credits and budgets apply to the new opt-in checks.

Allison announces general availability of local sandboxing for GitHub Copilot, adding a secure execution boundary for agent-run tools and commands on developer machines across Copilot CLI, the Copilot app, and VS Code Agent Host sessions.

Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot CLI that lets you discover and select supported local models from a running Ollama instance using the new /model picker, without restarting your session. The post also clarifies how adding local models relates to offline mode, telemetry, and remote providers.

Allison explains why GitHub Copilot usage metrics may undercount agent activity after some IDEs moved agent sessions to the Copilot SDK, and what to do to restore accurate reporting. The post lists the fixed IDE versions, what report gaps to expect, and why missing data can’t be backfilled.

Alex Weininger introduces the Canvas authoring plugin, which guides GitHub Copilot through the native create-canvas workflow to generate an Azure canvas app based on Microsoft Canvas Toolkit, including a read-only starter and patterns for safe, explicitly scoped Azure operations.

Waldek Mastykarz introduces Agent Experience (AX): how AI agents discover, choose, and correctly use your SDKs, APIs, and CLIs. He breaks AX down into propensity and efficacy, shows why you must measure both quality and task cost, and shares practical examples from GitHub Copilot Chat evaluations.

Michelle Zhou introduces ReviewBench, an open benchmark for evaluating AI code review agents using a representative set of GitHub pull requests, a multi-source ground truth process, and calibrated scoring. The post explains how to interpret grounded vs augmented metrics and how teams can submit their own agents to the public leaderboard.

Allison announces that GitHub Copilot code review can now be requested via the REST and GraphQL APIs, and explains the new default “Balanced” review effort level plus where to configure effort settings at the enterprise, organization, repository, and personal levels.

Allison announces the deprecation of several AI models across GitHub Copilot experiences and explains what Copilot Enterprise admins may need to change to keep model selection working in Copilot Chat and other modes.

Allison rounds up the latest GitHub Copilot updates for the week, including new model options, HydraFusion model coordination in preview, reusable dynamic workflows, and “computer use” for automating desktop apps. The post also highlights new Azure canvases in the Copilot app and experimental VS Code agent improvements.

Allison announces a public preview feature that lets GitHub Copilot interact with desktop apps via “computer use” in Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app on macOS and Windows, including cross-app workflows with user approval and configurable permissions.

Allison’s September 2026 changelog summarizes GitHub Copilot updates in VS Code v1.136–v1.140, focused on agent-driven workflows from implementation through pull request merge. It highlights new Agents window capabilities, scheduled automations, agent merge for handling review feedback and conflicts, and smoother context sharing across workspaces and Dev Containers.

Allison announces dynamic workflows for Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app, and the GitHub Copilot SDK, a way to define repeatable multi-agent orchestration in code with checkpoints, parallel tasks, and structured handoffs between stages.

Allison announces that GitHub’s redesigned dashboard is now the default experience, bringing issues, pull requests, and active agent sessions into a single view with configurable filters and a separate Feed tab.

Andrea Griffiths shares 10 GitHub Universe 2026 sessions she’s building her agenda around, spanning Copilot agent memory and evals, MCP context and authorization, npm dependency provenance, and supply-chain defenses for GitHub Actions—plus a few talks on JavaScript tooling and building for low-connectivity environments.

Dan Hellem shares recent updates to Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos, including configurable effort levels, faster comment resolution when applying suggestions, and new Azure DevOps audit log events to track enablement and configuration changes across organizations, projects, and repositories.

The Visual Studio Code Team shares the VS Code 1.141 (Insiders) release notes, including a new Copilot Chat command to clean up inactive agent worktrees to help keep agent-driven workflows tidy.

Allison announces that the HydraFusion research preview is now available in Visual Studio Code and the GitHub Copilot app, bringing multi-model orchestration to more Copilot surfaces. The post explains HydraFusion’s workflow options (Single, Cascade, Critique), what’s improved, and how to enable it in VS Code and the Copilot app.

Matt Hernandez introduces Azure Canvases for GitHub Copilot, a shared workspace that pairs Copilot chat with interactive dashboards and guided workflows for common Azure tasks like deploying Functions, querying resources across subscriptions, and reviewing cost and governance signals.

Allison announces that OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol is generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot, highlighting improved multistep coding performance and more efficient token usage. The post also covers where the model can be selected, how admins can control access, and how it’s billed under usage-based pricing.

Fernando de Oliveira, Fernanda Lasmar, and Denise Mignoli explain how to package and distribute shared AI-assisted engineering workflows using GitHub Copilot plugins, so teams can reuse agent instructions, skills, and MCP tool connections while still keeping application-specific context and decisions inside each repo.

Mark Downie outlines the September Visual Studio update, including Bring Your Own Model (BYOM) for Copilot-powered agent mode, one-click fixes for NuGet Audit vulnerability warnings from the Error List, a Git agent for pull request exploration, improved C# debugging hints for compound if conditions, and Podman container attach support.