GitHub announced on July 2, 2026 that Copilot CLI no longer requires a personal access token when running in GitHub Actions. A developer provided a migration template for removing the PAT injection fr…
Instagram head Adam Mosseri said Meta may need to cap AI token budgets per engineer within a year or two, as the burn rate of a strong engineer could equal their salary. Meta shut down an internal AI …
GitHub Copilot launched a public preview of /security-review, an AI-driven slash command that scans in-flight diffs for high-confidence security vulnerabilities before code is committed. The feature, …
Shell history and AI coding assistant transcripts are a major source of leaked credentials, according to developer Panayotis Vrypanis, who created shg (the shell guard) v0.2.6 to scan shell/REPL histo…
Microsoft researchers found that AI-coding agent adoption among its engineers spreads primarily through peer influence, not mandates, with an engineer's odds of trying GitHub's Copilot CLI rising 216%…
GitHub's Copilot code review performance declined after swapping in shared CLI tools (grep, glob, view) due to poorly adapted instructions, but rewriting those instructions for pull request review wor…
GitHub announced on July 8, 2026 that enterprises can centrally manage Copilot settings and telemetry controls for VS Code and Copilot CLI through MDM, server-managed settings, or locked local setting…
GitHub announced enterprise-managed OpenTelemetry export for Copilot in VS Code and CLI, allowing organizations to mandate telemetry flow to approved collectors without individual developer configurat…
GitHub published a July 8, 2026 walkthrough showing Copilot CLI configuring GitHub Pages DNS through Namecheap's API, taking a site from empty repository to custom-domain HTTPS in about 14 minutes. Th…
GitHub Mobile now supports live notifications for remote Copilot CLI sessions, allowing users to track progress, receive input requests, and jump back into sessions via iOS live activities or Android …
GitHub announced on July 7, 2026, that its standalone Copilot desktop app is now available on every Copilot plan, including Free and Education, across macOS, Windows, and Linux. The move broadens acce…
SerpApi developed an agent usability testing (AUT) skill that uses a second AI agent to observe and score how well LLM agents follow agentic skills, achieving 100% task success with the skill versus 2…
GitHub announced that Copilot CLI inside GitHub Actions workflows can now authenticate using the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN instead of requiring a personal access token (PAT). This change, noted in the Jul…
Loop engineering — designing the outer-loop mechanics around an AI agent — determines whether an agent converges or runs away, according to a blog post by Munder Difflin. The outer loop includes stop …
GitHub announced three improvements to its Copilot usage metrics API, including CLI suggested lines of code reporting, IDE identification for server-side-only users, and more accurate AI credit attrib…
GitHub Copilot CLI now features auto model selection that routes tasks to the optimal AI model based on real-time utilization and health metrics, improving reliability and token efficiency. The featur…
Supacode, a native macOS app built on The Composable Architecture and GhosttyKit, has evolved from a harness for running CLI coding agents into a full IDE with flexible panes for agents, editor, file …
Microsoft released a setup LSP skill for the C++ language server plugin in Copilot CLI, enabling developers to generate compile_commands.json for CMake, MSBuild, and custom build systems. The skill si…
The Software Freedom Conservancy released a set of 14 recommendations for open-source contributors using AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Copilot CLI, prioritizing best practices for integrat…
GitHub has made the redesigned terminal interface for Copilot CLI generally available, featuring a tabbed layout for browsing issues, pull requests, and gists, a guided tool configuration experience, …