Browse GitHub Copilot News (225)
Natalie Guevara summarizes GitHub’s April 2026 availability incidents, including outages and degradations affecting code search, audit logs, Copilot services, Pages, Codespaces, Actions, and other platform features, with root causes and concrete follow-up actions to improve detection, resilience, and recovery.
Allison announces a technical preview of the GitHub Copilot app, a GitHub-native desktop experience for running focused, isolated agentic coding sessions from issues and pull requests, then validating changes and landing them through normal PR review and checks.
Jim Harrer announces the VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon 2026 at Microsoft HQ in Redmond, a hands-on evening build event designed to help teams ship real prototypes using Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Copilot, and agent-based patterns, with judging criteria that emphasize architecture, security, and practical value.
Allison announces that GitHub Copilot’s cloud agent now supports Auto model selection, letting Copilot pick the best available model based on system health and performance, with a discounted model multiplier and no weekly rate-limit impact.
Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs, including a public preview of the Copilot CLI agent inside the IDE, a unified sessions view for tracking agent runs, and new agent-mode capabilities like an Ask question tool and global custom agent configuration.
Allison announces a public preview REST API that lets Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise customers start and track Copilot cloud agent tasks programmatically, enabling custom automations that fan out work across repos and open pull requests with validated changes.
Simona Liao introduces Agent Skills in Visual Studio, a way to package reusable, task-specific instructions so Copilot agents can follow your team’s workflows and standards. The post shows how to create and manage skills in the IDE or from your repo, and when to use skills versus custom instructions.
Allison announces improvements to GitHub Copilot code review comments in pull requests, aimed at making feedback easier to scan and act on with severity labels and grouped suggestions to reduce repetitive noise.
Allison announces that April usage reports are now available so GitHub Copilot admins and individual users can estimate how activity maps to AI credits ahead of the June 1 move to usage-based billing, including known gaps and data-quality issues in the report.
Natalie Guevara announces updates to GitHub Copilot’s individual plans ahead of the June 1, 2026 move to usage-based billing, including new “flex allotments” for Pro and Pro+ and a new Max plan for higher-volume usage.
Lee Reilly explains how he used GitHub Copilot CLI—especially /delegate—to build “GitHub Dungeons”, a GitHub CLI extension that turns any repository into a terminal roguelike. The post covers the core idea (seeded by commit SHA), how Copilot’s agent workflow fit into iteration, and the BSP approach used for dungeon generation.
Kedasha Kerr explains what open source is and walks beginners through finding beginner-friendly repositories on GitHub, evaluating whether a project is well maintained, and making a first contribution using a fork-and-pull-request workflow (with an example prompt for GitHub Copilot Chat).
Allison announces that Grok Code Fast 1 will be deprecated across GitHub Copilot experiences on May 15, 2026, and outlines what Copilot Enterprise admins need to do to ensure alternative models are available for users.
Allison announces an update to the GitHub Copilot usage metrics API that adds a breakdown of Copilot code review suggestions by comment type, helping enterprises and organizations understand what kinds of review feedback Copilot generates and how often developers apply it.
Allison announces new “Agents” secrets and variables for Copilot cloud agent, enabling org-level configuration and finer repository access control so teams can roll out shared settings (like registry tokens or MCP server config) across many repos without duplicating Actions environment setup.
Allison announces that GPT-4.1 will be deprecated across GitHub Copilot experiences on 2026-06-01, and points teams to GPT-5.5 as the suggested replacement. The post highlights where admins may need to adjust Copilot Enterprise model policies so the alternative model is available in Copilot Chat.
Landon Cox explains how GitHub instrumented GitHub Agentic Workflows to track LLM token usage in CI, then used automated “auditor” and “optimizer” workflows to reduce costs. The post covers token-usage logging, MCP tool pruning, replacing MCP calls with GitHub CLI steps, and an “Effective Tokens” metric to compare savings across models.
Allison announces that Claude Sonnet 4 was deprecated across GitHub Copilot on May 6, 2026, and points teams to Claude Sonnet 4.6 as the replacement, with notes for Copilot Enterprise admins on enabling alternative models via model policies.
Andrea Griffiths shares a practical checklist for reviewing agent-generated pull requests, focusing on where AI-written changes tend to hide risk: weakened CI, duplicated utilities, subtle logic bugs that still pass tests, and unsafe LLM-powered workflows that can turn untrusted input into executed commands.
Juan Montes reports on how Porsche Cup Brasil built an AI-assisted crash analysis and telemetry workflow on Microsoft platforms, cutting damage assessment time and improving race operations with human-in-the-loop validation.
Allison announces expanded model support for Rubber Duck in GitHub Copilot CLI, enabling cross-model “second opinion” reviews by pairing GPT and Claude models depending on which model is orchestrating the session.
Allison announces a public preview for enterprise-managed plugins in GitHub Copilot CLI, letting admins centrally define plugin marketplaces, auto-install plugins, and enforce baseline standards (including hooks and MCP configuration) across Copilot CLI users in an enterprise.
Gaurav Mittal explains how to validate GitHub Copilot Coding Agent runs in CI when agent behavior is non-deterministic, by building an independent “trust layer” that checks essential outcomes instead of brittle step-by-step scripts.
Allison summarizes April and early May 2026 updates for GitHub Copilot in VS Code, including semantic search across workspaces and GitHub repos, the experimental /chronicle chat-history feature, lower token usage via prompt caching and deferred tool loading, and new agent capabilities like inline diffs, browser tab sharing, and terminal access.
Allison announces general availability of secret scanning in the GitHub MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, enabling MCP-compatible AI coding agents and IDEs like GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code to detect exposed secrets before commits or pull requests.
Allison announces a public preview feature in GitHub MCP Server that lets MCP-compatible IDEs and AI coding agents scan code changes for vulnerable dependencies before you commit or open a pull request, using Dependabot tooling and the GitHub Advisory Database.
Allison announces the June 1, 2026 deprecation of GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex across GitHub Copilot experiences, and outlines the replacement models plus the admin steps needed to ensure the alternatives are available via Copilot model policies.
The Visual Studio Code Team summarizes what’s new in VS Code 1.119 (Insiders), including Markdown UX updates and several chat/agent features such as improved codebase context for virtual file systems, attaching browser tabs as context, and Copilot CLI plan mode support.
Kayla Cinnamon explains how GitHub Copilot CLI’s interactive and non-interactive modes differ, when to use each, and the exact commands to start a session, run one-off prompts, and resume prior sessions from the terminal.
Allison summarizes the April 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026, focusing on agentic workflows like launching cloud agent sessions from the IDE, user-level custom agents and skills discovery, a new debugger agent flow, plus chat history, shortcut customization, and new C++ tools.
Microsoft Fabric Blog explains how Fabric SQL developers can move from Azure Data Studio to VS Code, keeping SQL Database Projects and adopting a Git-based workflow with pull requests, schema compare, publish script previews, and optional GitHub Copilot assistance in the MSSQL extension.
Mark Downie covers the April Visual Studio 2026 update, focusing on GitHub Copilot’s new cloud agent workflow, user-level custom agents, and a Debugger Agent that validates fixes against real runtime behavior, plus improvements to C++ agent tools, IntelliSense vs Copilot completion priority, and configurable Copilot shortcuts.
Allison announces that GitHub Copilot Student is removing GPT-5.3-Codex from the model picker, while keeping it available via auto model selection. The post explains this as part of temporary reliability/performance measures and points to documentation on supported models and upcoming usage-based billing changes.
Allison shares a GitHub Changelog update: Copilot cloud agent now starts over 20% faster by using optimized runner environments prebuilt with GitHub Actions custom images, reducing environment startup overhead when Copilot begins work from issues, PRs, or the Agents tab.
Allison announces a billing change for GitHub Copilot code review: starting June 1, 2026, reviews will consume both Copilot AI Credits and (for private repos) GitHub Actions minutes, with guidance on checking usage, budgets, and runner configuration.
Mario Rodriguez announces that GitHub Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026, replacing premium request units with GitHub AI Credits based on token usage. The post explains what changes for individuals and organizations, including pooled credits, budget controls, and how Copilot code review also uses GitHub Actions minutes.
Allison announces that GPT-5.5 is rolling out to GitHub Copilot, highlighting improved performance on complex, multi-step agentic coding tasks, plus where you can select it (IDEs, CLI, web, mobile) and what admins need to enable for Business/Enterprise.
Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs, including inline agent mode (public preview), improvements to Next Edit Suggestions, and new global/granular auto-approve controls for tool calls like terminal commands and file edits, plus UX and reliability refinements.
The Visual Studio Code Team shares the VS Code 1.118 (Insiders) updates, focused on GitHub Copilot CLI improvements like session-title APIs, session switching keybindings, auto model selection, model badges in chat, and a Copilot CLI SDK change to resolve node-pty via hostRequire.
Allison announces improvements to GitHub Copilot Chat for pull requests, including richer PR context (comments, file changes, commits, reviews) plus new capabilities to review and summarize PRs directly from GitHub surfaces.