Browse GitHub Copilot News (237)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot Chat on the web that improves handoff to Copilot cloud agent sessions and adds ways to query previous sessions. The release surfaces in-progress agent status in chat, enables pulling agent logs into the conversation, and adds session search for summarizing past work.

Waldek Mastykarz explains why piling up dozens of agent “skills” can quietly burn your token budget and reduce response quality, and how to decide what should stay a skill versus what should become a manually-invoked prompt in tools like GitHub Copilot and VS Code.

Jeffrey Fritz announces the .NET Day on Agentic Modernization livestream (June 16, 2026), focused on practical ways to modernize existing .NET applications without a full rewrite. The agenda highlights GitHub Copilot-assisted modernization, Aspire-based approaches, migration of WinForms and line-of-business apps, and adding agentic/AI capabilities.

Apoorv Gupta explains Spec-Driven Development (SDD) as a spec-first workflow for AI-native engineering, where structured specs act as the shared source of truth across requirements, design, implementation, and validation. The post introduces GitHub Spec Kit and outlines a practical lifecycle teams can adopt to reduce ambiguity and rework.

Natalie Guevara explains how to give GitHub Copilot CLI real code intelligence by installing and configuring language servers via the LSP Setup skill, replacing brittle grep/decompile workflows with semantic features like go-to-definition, find references, and type resolution in the terminal.

Allison announces an experimental public preview feature in GitHub Copilot CLI: a /security-review command that reviews local code changes for common vulnerability classes and returns severity- and confidence-scored findings plus actionable fixes directly in the terminal.

The Microsoft Foundry Team announces Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) is now available in Microsoft Foundry, and explains how it’s used to power autonomous agents in Foundry Agent Service and GitHub Copilot, with an emphasis on enterprise guardrails, governance controls, and token-based pricing.

Natalie Guevara explains how to define and run custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI so repeated terminal tasks become consistent, reviewable workflows. The article shows how agent profiles live in your repo, and includes practical examples for security audits, IaC compliance checks, release notes drafting, and incident response.

Dan Hellem and Andrew Brenner announce a limited public preview that brings GitHub Copilot code reviews into Azure Repos pull requests, and walk through how to enable it at the organization, repository, and user levels. The post also documents preview guardrails and how token usage is billed via GitHub AI credits to Azure Cost Management.

Allison announces that GitHub’s security validation for third-party coding agents is now generally available, bringing the same automated checks used for the GitHub Copilot cloud agent to agent-generated pull requests.

Jon Galloway recaps Microsoft Build 2026 with the main developer announcements across GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Foundry, Azure, Windows, Visual Studio, and .NET—highlighting agentic workflows, new tooling, governance specs, and a curated set of sessions and hubs to follow up on what shipped.

Daniel Roth rounds up the key .NET sessions from Microsoft Build 2026, highlighting what’s new in .NET 11 and C# (including union types), plus sessions on agentic web apps, AI building blocks for .NET, .NET MAUI on-device AI, and tooling like dotnetup.

Natalie Guevara answers common beginner GitHub questions, including how to set up SSH keys, create personal access tokens (fine-grained and classic), resolve merge conflicts, undo commits, sync forks, and review pull requests—plus a quick look at using GitHub Copilot for code review in PRs.

Allison announces the deprecation of GPT-5.2 and GPT-5.2-Codex across most GitHub Copilot experiences, and points teams to the supported replacement models and the admin settings needed to enable them in Copilot Enterprise.

Allison announces a public preview feature that lets enterprises centrally configure and distribute GitHub Copilot CLI plugins through VS Code 1.122, using a shared settings.json so standardized plugin marketplaces, hooks, and MCP configurations are applied automatically for licensed users.

davidwright, Arnaud Lheureux, and Suzanne Daniels explain why architecture and governance frameworks only help when they actively change delivery decisions. Using Git-Ape as the example, they show how to turn Azure Well-Architected, Azure Policy (including NIST mappings), and CAF guidance into repeatable repo-driven assessments with prioritized findings tied to code and policy.

Allison announces that Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max subscribers can use “Fix with Copilot” to automatically investigate and propose fixes for failing GitHub Actions jobs, pushing changes to a branch and tagging the developer for review.

Allison announces a public preview REST API that lets Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max users start and track Copilot cloud agent tasks programmatically, enabling teams to integrate agent-driven code changes into scripts and internal tooling.

Allison announces new GitHub Copilot capabilities: support for one-million-token context windows and configurable reasoning levels, plus guidance on how these choices affect AI credit consumption across VS Code, Copilot CLI, and the Copilot app.

Allison summarizes the May 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026, covering new agent planning workflows, skill discovery, multi-file change review, context window tracking, and tighter Git integration for bringing commits into Copilot Chat and centralizing commit message instructions.

Allison announces that GitHub Copilot Chat is now generally available on github.com with richer pull request and diff context, making it easier to ask questions, review changes, and get summaries while staying in the PR workflow.

Dom Robinson, samkemp, and Inbal Sagiv announce Foundry Local 1.2.0 and preview Foundry Local on Azure Local, focusing on running AI on-device and at the edge with better transcription, broader hardware support, improved cancellation, and simpler acceleration across Windows and Linux.

Poonam Gupta shares how Microsoft’s CAP organization is moving repositories from Azure DevOps (Azure Repos) to GitHub at enterprise scale, while keeping Azure Boards and Azure Pipelines where they still matter. The post highlights migration tooling, hybrid workflow patterns, and how Copilot-driven agentic workflows are influencing platform decisions.

Teddyb introduces Microsoft Fabric Skills, an open-source set of packaged instructions and API patterns that help GitHub Copilot and other AI coding tools use Fabric correctly. The post explains what the skill bundles contain, how to install them via Copilot plugins or by cloning the repo, and how auth/token audiences are handled across Fabric workloads.

Shawn Henry rounds up the BUILD 2026 announcements for Microsoft Agent Framework, covering the new Agent Harness for production-grade agent execution, Foundry Hosted Agents for deploying and operating agents at scale, and CodeAct (Hyperlight) to reduce tool-calling latency and token usage, with examples in .NET and Python.

Allison summarizes May/early June 2026 updates to GitHub Copilot in VS Code (v1.120–v1.123), including the new Agents window preview, remote agent sessions, expanded BYOK support (including air-gapped use), and safety/efficiency improvements for terminal-driven workflows.

Allison announces that GPT-4.1 has been deprecated across GitHub Copilot experiences as of June 1, 2026, and points Copilot Enterprise admins to model policies and settings needed to enable the suggested replacement model.

Rajesh Ramamurthy outlines how Microsoft is evolving Azure DevOps and GitHub for agentic development, including enterprise-scale repo migration options, new MCP-based context connectors for agents, and preview features that bring Copilot-assisted code review and CodeQL autofix into Azure DevOps workflows.

Tsuyoshi Ushio introduces azure-functions-skills (public preview), a plugin + CLI that wires AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code) with MCP config, hooks, and playbooks to scaffold, validate, and deploy Azure Functions using current best practices like managed identity and Key Vault references.

Jay Parikh outlines Microsoft’s approach to an enterprise “agent platform” that treats AI as a production system: build agents in GitHub, ground them with Microsoft IQ, run them in Foundry, govern them with Agent 365 and the Microsoft Security stack, and continuously improve via evals, traces, tuning, and feedback loops.

Anna Hoffman summarizes Microsoft SQL announcements from Build 2026, focused on an “agentic” database developer workflow powered by GitHub Copilot across VS Code and SSMS, plus Azure SQL Hyperscale capabilities and new security and streaming features.

Allison announces expanded technical preview access for the GitHub Copilot app and outlines what’s new, including canvases for steering and verifying agent work, voice conversations with on-device speech-to-text, cloud sessions and automations, and tighter workflows across issues, PRs, and Copilot CLI sessions.

Natalie Guevara introduces the GitHub Copilot app (technical preview) as a desktop control center for agentic development, covering parallel agent sessions with git worktrees, canvases for inspectable work, local and cloud sandboxes, scalable Copilot code review, and the Copilot SDK and CLI updates.

Allison announces general availability of the GitHub Copilot SDK, which lets you embed Copilot’s agent runtime into your own apps and developer tools. The post highlights supported languages, core agent capabilities (tools, MCP, prompts, tracing), authentication options, and what changed since public preview.