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Stefan Kingham’s documentary traces how Visual Studio Code evolved from early web-based editor experiments into a widely used, open-source developer tool, covering key technical and product shifts like Electron, extensions, LSP, remote development, and the editor’s adaptation to the AI era including GitHub Copilot.

GitHub explains the “AI harness” concept for guiding LLM execution, and how harness engineering adds the runtime, tools, and guardrails that let AI agents work safely against a codebase in agentic workflows.

Kayla Cinnamon explains how the GitHub Copilot app can run multiple agent sessions in parallel on the same project by isolating each session with its own Git worktree, so you can queue up tasks (like feature work, accessibility review, and tests) and review results as they complete.

Allison announces that GitHub is gradually reopening sign-ups for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise paid by credit card or PayPal, alongside billing and account-vetting changes that affect how seats are activated, charged, and how overage usage may require additional payment.

Cassidy Williams breaks down the new AI vocabulary showing up in developer conversations—loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing, and model “openness”—and explains how these concepts map to practical ways teams build and improve agent-driven workflows (with GitHub Copilot as a concrete example of a “harness”).

Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot enterprise-managed settings that lets organizations set any Copilot model as the default for new conversations, with optional per-team overrides via managed settings files.

Allison announces general availability of content exclusion support in the GitHub Copilot app and Copilot CLI, so enterprise, organization, and repository admins can prevent Copilot from using specified files as context and better protect sensitive code during agentic workflows.

Erik Kristensen explains how GitHub Copilot reduced end-to-end cost for agentic coding by optimizing whole tasks (not individual tool calls), including selective compression of noisy command output, removing wasted formatting, tightening prompts with regression tests, and batching background results to avoid extra model turns.

The Visual Studio Code Team shares Insiders updates for VS Code 1.137, focusing on Copilot-related workflow improvements such as clearer model token limits, better context handling when pasting GitHub issue/PR links, and updated new-session composer controls.

GitHub hosts a multi-hour Copilot Day live session covering new releases, hands-on demos, and practical workflows, including how Copilot works across GitHub, the CLI, and VS Code, plus a live-coding segment with Burke Holland, Pierce Boggan, and guests.

Allison announces a generally available GitHub billing update that lets admins set an expiration date on individual user budgets, so temporary budget overrides are removed automatically and users fall back to the next applicable budget.

Allison announces a public preview update to GitHub Copilot code review that adds approval assessments on pull requests and, when enabled by admins, allows Copilot to submit an approval that can count toward required-approvals rules.

Microsoft Developer presents a student-focused course that uses the GitHub Copilot app to turn a resume into a live portfolio site, while teaching Git fundamentals, GitHub Pages deployment, Copilot modes, context/tokens, MCP servers, skills, and bring-your-own-model with Azure AI Foundry.

GitHub runs a beginner-friendly virtual training on the GitHub Copilot SDK, focusing on how developers can programmatically interact with Copilot and build custom agent capabilities that fit their team’s workflows across multiple languages.

Aaron Powell walks through reviewing GitHub pull requests directly inside Visual Studio, from opening the PR list and navigating diffs to leaving inline comments, approving, and merging. He also shows how to bring GitHub Copilot into the review by adding a PR as chat context using the UI or the #pullrequest: command.

GitHub introduces canvases in the GitHub Copilot app and shows how beginners can use the /create-canvas skill to generate custom, interactive workflow surfaces like release checklists, kanban boards, and triage views, then iterate on them and share state in real time.

Allison announces that Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 is now available as a selectable model in GitHub Copilot, including details on where it’s available, how admins enable it for Business/Enterprise, how it’s billed under usage-based pricing, and the default data-retention requirement plus ZDR options for eligible enterprises.

Allison explains a GitHub Copilot change for GitHub Team plans: when a user has Copilot seats in multiple organizations, model access is now determined only by the organization that is billed for the user’s Copilot usage, aligning governance and billing.

Allison announces that several AI models are deprecated across GitHub Copilot experiences as of September 1, 2026, and outlines the replacement models plus the admin steps Copilot Enterprise customers may need to take to enable alternatives via model policies.

Allison’s August 2026 changelog rounds up GitHub Copilot updates shipped across VS Code 1.132–1.135, focusing on agent sessions, chat navigation and review, an integrated browser for UI feedback, and improved dictation—plus new ways to inspect per-model token usage during conversations.

This week's GitHub Copilot updates center on governance that admins can actually operate: unified policies across chat and cloud agents, clearer seat and usage billing behavior, and GA model controls that affect compliance and cost attribution. On the workflow side, the Copilot app's Customize tab is now the place to standardize MCP servers, plugins, and shared tools, while shared agent sessions in Slack and Microsoft Teams push Copilot work into auditable team spaces. Code review expands eligibility (including bot and cloud agent PRs) and adds better lifecycle tracking, and the IDE story keeps evolving with Visual Studio and VS Code adding practical model selection, effort controls, BYOM options, and even persistent agent sessions via Agent Host and AHP.

Amanda Silver reflects on major technical shifts behind Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, focusing on VS Code’s open-source architecture and extension ecosystem, and how GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted coding changed what developers expect from an editor and its connected cloud services.

Amanda Silver reflects on how Visual Studio Code grew from an open source editor into a platform shaped by its extension ecosystem, and how GitHub Copilot changed expectations for developer tools by bringing AI-powered coding assistance into everyday workflows.

Allison summarizes the August 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, including organization-level custom agents, usage visibility, model selection and “thinking effort” controls, and a Git agent that can review uncommitted changes or commits before opening a pull request.

Allison summarizes the August 24 weekly GitHub Copilot updates, covering shared agent sessions in Slack and Microsoft Teams, the Copilot app’s new Customize experience (including MCP servers and plugins), Copilot CLI session and permission defaults, and IDE improvements across VS Code, JetBrains, and Visual Studio.

Yo-Lei Chen demonstrates how to build a full-stack app around SQL Server using GitHub Copilot in VS Code, from database schema design and query assistance through to generating backend code and wiring up REST or GraphQL endpoints.

Allison outlines three upcoming GitHub Copilot changes that affect how organizations pay for seats and usage, how Copilot Chat and the cloud agent are governed under a single policy, and what to expect from the new default “Balanced” effort level for Copilot code review.

Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot code review, including support for automatically requested reviews on bot-authored pull requests (including Copilot cloud agent), removal of previous large-PR size limits, and new resolution-reason options to provide feedback when closing Copilot review comments.

Sam Basu explains how Uno Platform built two MCP servers in C#—one for documentation grounding and one for driving a live app—so AI agents can look up accurate APIs, run and inspect a cross-platform .NET UI, and validate changes instead of just generating code.

Gregg Cochran shares lessons from OpenClaw’s maintainers on what changes when an AI-driven open source project scales fast: how pull requests turn into “prompt requests,” what new trust signals look like, and how to reduce supply chain risk while keeping agent capabilities safe by default.

James Rempt recaps VSLive! @ Microsoft HQ 2026 with the main themes developers discussed—AI across the workflow, GitHub Copilot inside Visual Studio, and practical .NET modernization—and links to recorded sessions on performance, ASP.NET Core/Blazor, C#, and an MCP-based SQL agent scenario.

Dan Hellem announces an Azure DevOps plugin for the GitHub Copilot app, letting teams view and manage Azure DevOps work items and pull requests directly inside Copilot, including opening, editing, and completing PRs without switching tools.

GitHub explores the GitHub Copilot Teams integration with Slack, focusing on how teams can bring Copilot into their existing collaboration workflow.

Allison announces a GitHub Copilot enterprise management update that lets admins enable automatic updates for specific plugin marketplaces via enterprise-managed settings, reducing manual maintenance while still enforcing marketplace allowlisting.

Allison announces general availability of GitHub Copilot’s global model policy for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, including how default enablement is enforced, how unconfigured models inherit policy state, and which model types are excluded from default enablement due to open-weight or data-retention constraints.

Microsoft Developer shares a quick news update covering Agent Optimizer in Microsoft Foundry, the GA release of Agent Plugins 1.0 across multiple Copilot surfaces, and a timeline note that Claude Sonnet 4.6 will leave most GitHub Copilot experiences on September 1.

Christopher Harrison shows how to use GitHub Copilot app automations to triage Dependabot pull requests on a schedule, so teams can quickly separate low-risk updates from changes that need deeper review.

Dan Hellem announces the public preview of GitHub Copilot Code Review for Azure Repos and explains what’s changed since the technical preview, including new onboarding controls, support for Managed DevOps Pools, custom review instructions, automatic reviews via branch policies, and improved Azure Cost Management visibility.

John Naguib explains a Copilot Studio billing change taking effect on September 1, 2026: existing agents and workflows built with the GitHub Copilot harness will start consuming Copilot Credits. The post breaks down what’s affected, how credit consumption works (authoring vs runtime), and what admins can review in PPAC to avoid cost surprises.

demiajayi announces new Azure Cost Management capabilities in the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) MCP server, including default cost and pricing tools plus an optional CostManagement toolset. The post shows how to enable the toolset for GitHub Copilot Chat in VS Code and Copilot CLI, and what scenarios the tools support.