Browse GitHub Copilot News (211)
cindywang explains how GitHub Copilot agents can modernize legacy Java and .NET code inside Docker Sandbox microVMs, keeping host filesystem paths consistent while avoiding risky Docker socket mounts and tightening egress controls during dependency upgrades.
Allison announces `gh skill`, a new GitHub CLI command for discovering, installing, updating, and publishing portable “agent skills” for AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot), with a focus on version pinning and supply-chain integrity.
Jim Harrer shares a curated list of 20 VS Live! Las Vegas 2026 sessions now available on the Visual Studio YouTube channel, spanning AI/Copilot topics, modern .NET and C#, Azure cloud-native development, GitHub Actions, and practical productivity and architecture guidance.
Allison announces that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.7 is rolling out in GitHub Copilot, including where it’s available (IDEs, CLI, and agents), which plans get access, and what admins need to enable for Business and Enterprise tenants.
Allison explains a new GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent (CCA) admin capability: enterprise admins can now enable the agent for selected organizations (including via organization custom properties), and manage the policy through the AI Controls page or new REST API endpoints.
Yun Jung Choi explains that Azure MCP tools are now built into Visual Studio 2022 via the Azure development workload, letting developers enable an Azure MCP Server inside GitHub Copilot Chat to provision resources, deploy apps, and troubleshoot Azure services without installing a separate extension.
Cassidy Williams interviews GitHub Staff Software Engineer Brittany Ellich about building a personal “command center” app, focusing on how GitHub Copilot CLI and agent-based workflows supported the process from planning through implementation.
David Sanchez lays out a practical DevOps playbook for teams adopting AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent), focusing on readiness prerequisites, human–agent collaboration patterns, pipeline changes, governance, and security controls needed to keep quality and accountability intact as non-human contributors scale up.
Allison announces that GitHub Copilot’s third-party coding agents (Claude and Codex) now support model selection on github.com, including the currently available Claude Sonnet/Opus and GPT-5 Codex model options, plus notes on required admin policies and repo settings.
Dorothy Pearce introduces GitHub’s free Code Security Risk Assessment, a one-click scan that uses CodeQL to surface vulnerabilities across up to 20 active repositories, and explains how the results help teams prioritize remediation (including where Copilot Autofix may apply).
Allison announces updates to GitHub Code Quality standard findings (public preview), including faster triage features like file-path search, bulk dismiss/reopen, and richer per-finding context, with fix suggestions generated by GitHub Copilot Autofix.
Allison announces GitHub Copilot data residency for US and EU regions plus FedRAMP Moderate support, outlining what features are covered, which models are available, the pricing uplift for compliant endpoints, and how enterprise/org admins can enable the policies.
Allison announces a new “Fix with Copilot” button on github.com that uses Copilot cloud agent to resolve merge conflicts, verify builds/tests, and push updates from a cloud development environment, plus @copilot commands for PR fixes and workflow failures.
Allison announces a public preview feature for GitHub Copilot CLI that enables remote control of running CLI sessions from GitHub on the web and in GitHub Mobile, including monitoring, steering messages, plan review, and policy-controlled permissions.
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.
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).