Browse GitHub Copilot News (226)
Allison announces expanded GitHub Copilot app reporting in the Copilot usage metrics API, adding user attribution and rollups across features, models, and languages, plus token and code activity breakdowns to help enterprises compare Copilot surfaces consistently.
Allison announces that Grok 4.5 (xAI’s reasoning model) is rolling out in GitHub Copilot, highlighting its large context window, multimodal inputs, and suitability for agentic, multi-step coding workflows. The post also covers where you can select the model and how admins enable it for Business and Enterprise.
Mark Downie introduces the Visual Studio July update, centered on a new Agent (Preview) in Copilot Chat built on the GitHub Copilot SDK. The post also covers built-in .NET and Azure skills, org-level Copilot custom instructions, attaching Git branches as chat context, and improved MSVC toolset discovery for reproducible C++ builds.
Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains, including configurable OpenTelemetry export for agent workflows, tighter controls for model behavior (token limits, enabling/disabling built-in models), and support for MCP servers and custom agents in Claude agent flows, plus Copilot CLI and UX improvements.
Allison announces a new dedicated policy for the GitHub Copilot app, letting enterprises and organizations control access independently from Copilot CLI. The update keeps existing guardrails in place by routing changes through isolated workspaces and pull requests, so reviews, checks, and audit history still apply.
Burke Holland shares a practical GitHub Copilot “harness” workflow for building features end-to-end: pick a Copilot surface, enable more autonomy safely, prototype and plan in the same session, implement with Autopilot, then iterate and run a Rubber Duck review to catch blind spots.
Allison announces that enterprise managed settings now apply to the GitHub Copilot app and Copilot cloud agent, letting enterprise owners enforce a single managed-settings.json policy across more Copilot clients, including controls for plugins, marketplaces, and approval-prompt bypass behavior.
Yuliia Kovalova and Jan Krivanek introduce the MSBuild Binlog Analyzer for VS Code, a preview extension that uses GitHub Copilot Chat plus an MCP server to explain build failures, pinpoint performance bottlenecks, compare builds, and spot regressions directly from MSBuild .binlog files.
Christopher Harrison introduces the GitHub Copilot app and shows how it supports real-world development workflows with project-scoped agent sessions, Quick Chat for parallel threads, interactive canvases for visual iteration, and Agent Merge to help move pull requests through CI and review.
Allison announces that Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 is now selectable in GitHub Copilot, highlighting its strengths on long-running, multi-step coding tasks and agentic workflows, plus where it’s available, how admins enable it for Business/Enterprise, and how usage-based billing applies.
Allison announces general availability of Copilot cloud agent for Linear, letting teams assign Linear issues to Copilot to produce draft pull requests, run work in an ephemeral environment backed by GitHub Actions, and report progress back into Linear with configurable models, branches, and custom agents.
Allison announces that GitHub MCP Server already supports the upcoming stateless MCP specification, outlining protocol changes (like removing sessions and initialize) and what GitHub changed internally to stay compatible while improving scalability and verification.
Allison announces a GitHub Mobile improvement that lets you use the Copilot cloud coding agent to investigate and fix failing GitHub Actions checks directly from a pull request, creating a follow-up PR for you to review and merge.
Allison announces a public preview for GitHub Issues agent automation controls, adding approvals, confidence ratings, and rationale so teams can review or auto-apply agent-driven changes like labeling, assigning, and closing issues.
Andrea Griffiths breaks down what GitHub Copilot subscriptions pay for beyond raw model API calls, including the developer workflow surfaces Copilot connects, how GitHub AI Credits are metered, and when direct API access (or BYOK) makes more sense for teams building their own agent systems.
Allison announces a new GitHub Copilot metrics impact dashboard for enterprise admins and org owners, turning Copilot usage metrics API cohort data into a visual view of adoption depth, developer impact, and recommended next steps to move users into deeper adoption phases.
Jacklyn Carroll introduces canvases in the GitHub Copilot app: shared, interactive workspaces that let you collaborate with an agent beyond a chat thread. The article shows example prompts and outcomes for building canvas extensions that support issue triage, codebase visualization, session/worktree cleanup, prompt coaching, and cross-tool knowledge discovery.
Allison announces that Gemini 3.6 Flash is rolling out as a selectable model in GitHub Copilot, highlighting its focus on coding and longer-horizon agentic tasks, plus where it’s available and what admins need to enable for Business and Enterprise plans.
Allison announces that GitHub Enterprise Cloud admins can now manage a cost center’s AI credit pool directly in the billing UI for Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise, including automatic pool limit calculation and options for what happens when the included credit limit is reached.
Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot usage reporting: Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise users can now see the number of AI credits used in the current billing cycle, even when an admin hasn’t configured an individual budget.
Allison announces general availability of repository-level GitHub Copilot usage metrics via the Copilot usage metrics REST API, enabling daily per-repository reporting for Copilot coding agent and Copilot code review pull request activity across enterprises and organizations.
Allison announces an update to the Copilot usage metrics API that adds dedicated reporting for GitHub Copilot app activity in enterprise and organization reports, including active user counts and token usage breakdowns.
Allison announces new controls for GitHub Copilot code review, including reading custom instructions from the PR head branch, expanded instruction file support, repository-level setup steps via a workflow YAML, and a default-on firewall with separate configuration from Copilot cloud agent.
Allison announces a GitHub Mobile improvement that lets you start “Fix with Copilot” directly from Copilot code review pull request comments, making it quicker to address review feedback from a phone while keeping PRs moving.
Pablo Lopes announces a free, open-source course that guides developers through modernizing a legacy ASP.NET app to .NET 10 using the GitHub Copilot modernization agent, including assessment and planning artifacts, an execution workflow, and a final deployment to Azure App Service.
Rachel Kang explains new Visual Studio features for working with GitHub Copilot models: pinning favorites in the model picker, comparing model capabilities (like context window size and vision support), and tracking context window and plan usage so long-running chats don’t catch you off guard.
Allison summarizes the June 2026 GitHub Copilot update for Visual Studio 2026, focusing on new usage tracking and alerts, a trust validation layer for MCP servers, and Copilot features that tie into pull request workflows and C++ modernization.
Allison announces updates to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains, including BYOK custom endpoint support, expanded plugin-based customizations, Claude provider support for custom agents, and local sandboxing in public preview, plus UX and reliability improvements across chat, model selection, and CLI sessions.
Allison announces a public preview feature where GitHub code scanning surfaces AI-powered security detections directly on pull requests, helping teams catch issues in languages and frameworks that don’t have native CodeQL coverage. The update explains what’s included, how it runs, enablement requirements, and how billing works via AI credits.
Simona Liao, Wendy Breiding, and Yun Jung Choi introduce Visual Studio 18.8’s built-in Agent Skills, a set of reusable Copilot capabilities for common .NET and Azure tasks. The post explains where to find and enable skills, why they’re off by default, and highlights starter skills for API work, performance reviews, Azure deployments, and Kusto queries.
Allison announces a public preview feature in the GitHub Copilot app: the /security-review slash command, which runs an on-demand security review of your in-flight code changes and returns prioritized findings with suggested fixes you can apply and re-check without leaving Copilot.
Napalys Klicius explains why migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style exploration tools (grep, glob, view) initially increased cost and reduced useful findings, and how rewriting tool instructions to match a reviewer’s diff-first workflow delivered about 20% lower average review cost without hurting quality.
Allison announces a public preview of agentic autofix for GitHub code scanning alerts, where Copilot explores the repo, proposes and validates a fix by rerunning CodeQL, then opens a draft pull request. The post also covers how to trigger it, required licenses, and how AI Credits and Actions minutes are consumed.
Allison announces an update to GitHub Mobile that adds improved filtering and sorting for GitHub Copilot sessions, helping developers find active, completed, and needs-attention sessions more quickly as their session list grows.
Mika Dumont introduces an interactive upgrade canvas in the GitHub Copilot app that lets teams track a .NET modernization end-to-end, from assessment and planning through execution, code changes, build failures, and final results, with the same upgrade workflow available in Visual Studio, VS Code, and the Copilot CLI.
Tina Schuchman announces general availability of GPT-5.6 models and new production agent capabilities in Microsoft Foundry, including APAC Data Zone support, hosted agents, toolboxes, and observability features like tracing and evaluation to help teams move agentic apps from pilots to production.
Allison announces the rollout of OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 model family (Sol, Terra, and Luna) in GitHub Copilot, including what each variant is best suited for, where you can select them, and what admins need to enable for Business and Enterprise plans.
Allison announces a GitHub Copilot Chat feature on github.com that generates a high-level overview of a repository you’re visiting for the first time, summarizing the repo’s purpose, technologies used, and contribution guidelines, with an option to generate a README when one doesn’t exist.
David Pine explains how the .NET Aspire team uses GitHub Agentic Workflows to turn merged product pull requests into SME-reviewed documentation pull requests in a separate repo, while keeping security tight through a “safe-outputs” contract and narrowly scoped GitHub App permissions.
Allison announces enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export controls for GitHub Copilot in VS Code and Copilot CLI, letting organizations centrally mandate OTLP endpoints, protocols, resource attributes, and capture settings without relying on per-developer OTEL_* environment variables.