GitHub has announced the general availability of Agent Plugins 1.0, an extensibility system for Copilot's agent mode that works across VS Code, the Copilot CLI, the SDK, and the Copilot app, available…
GitHub announced on August 12, 2026 that Agent Plugins 1.0 is generally available as a supported product feature in VS Code, Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot SDK, and the GitHub Copilot app on all Copi…
Bento Term, a native tmux client for macOS, iPhone, and iPad, has been released as open-source under Apache-2.0, featuring agent states for ten AI coding agents and voice input. The app, which require…
GitHub Copilot is rolling out Grok 4.6, xAI's latest reasoning model designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows, available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise SKUs. T…
Docker's new Docker Sandboxes product runs AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI, Kiro, and OpenCode inside dedicated microVMs with custom VMMs, providing hardware-level isolati…
Docker released Sandboxes, a feature that runs coding agents like Claude Code and Copilot CLI in isolated microVMs with no manual review or supervision. Meanwhile, a senior engineer at BS23 detailed h…
GitHub introduced two new enterprise managed-settings keys, `allowedMcpServers` and `deniedMcpServers`, on August 6 to let organizations centrally control which MCP servers GitHub Copilot can run. The…
GitHub has released the GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 release candidate, introducing new capabilities including Copilot CLI support for air-gapped environments, general availability of Enterprise Team…
GitHub has released an update to GitHub Copilot for JetBrains that adds persistent Copilot memory across chat sessions, support for Ollama as a bring-your-own-key (BYOK) provider, and expanded enterpr…
Docker Inc. has launched Docker Sandboxes, a new product that provides disposable, isolated microVM environments for AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI, Codex, OpenCode, and…
GitHub will retire GitHub Spark on github.com, ceasing new user sign-ups and app creation on August 4, 2026, with full shutdown on August 31, 2026. Existing users can export their apps before the shut…
GitHub announced enterprise team specialization for managed settings, allowing administrators to customize Copilot governance per team via itemized configuration files. The feature, now enforced in VS…
GitHub deprecated Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across all Copilot experiences on July 31, with no grace period, marking the sixth model deprecation since January 2026. GitHub recommends migrating…
Herdr, a new terminal tool, positions itself as 'to coding agents what tmux is to terminals,' addressing the gap between classic multiplexers and agent-aware orchestration. The tool provides a control…
XAI's Grok 4.5 reasoning model is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, supporting up to 500,000 tokens and text/image inputs for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. The model is available t…
A Hacker News user asks how developers use GitHub Copilot across its CLI, App, and IDE versions, noting that each product lacks features available in the others—for example, the CLI's /review command …
GitHub announced that enterprise managed settings now govern the GitHub Copilot app and Copilot cloud agent, allowing enterprise owners to define a single set of guardrails—such as plugin approvals an…
Manifold Security disclosed on July 21 that hidden HTML comments in Azure DevOps pull-request descriptions can inject instructions into AI agents using Microsoft's official MCP server, enabling cross-…
GitHub released a Copilot SDK that exposes the production agent runtime behind Copilot CLI as a multi-language library, allowing developers to embed planning, tool invocation, and file-edit loops into…
GitHub announced enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export for Copilot activity from VS Code and Copilot CLI on July 8, 2026. The company recommends isolating the collector pool, applying field policies…