GitHub Copilot is improving context handling and model routing to increase token efficiency in longer agentic sessions. Enhancements include prompt caching and deferred tool loading in VS Code, while …
GitHub has added a new governance capability to enterprise-managed settings, allowing administrators to disable bypass permission controls for Copilot CLI and VS Code. The setting prevents automatic a…
GitHub has made auto model selection generally available in Copilot Chat on github.com and the GitHub mobile app for all Copilot plans. The feature dynamically routes requests to models like Claude So…
GitHub launched agent finder for Copilot, enabling AI to autonomously discover and rank relevant resources like MCP servers and agents based on plain-language task descriptions. The feature implements…
GitHub is reopening sign-ups for Copilot Student, Pro, Pro+, and Max plans over the next few weeks, with new upgrade and pay-as-you-go options for users exceeding their plan limits.…
GitHub announced the general availability of its Copilot app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, providing a desktop environment for agent-driven development. The app enables users to start sessions from i…
GitHub is retiring its GitHub Models service, halting new customer sign-ups immediately. Existing customers can continue using the service for now, with full retirement details to come. GitHub directs…
GitHub announced that Code Quality will become a paid product on July 20, 2026, moving from public preview to general availability. Pricing is set at $10 per active committer per month plus usage-base…
GitHub announced that Copilot usage metrics now incorporate server-side telemetry alongside client signals, providing a more complete view of active users. The update increases daily active user count…
GitHub Copilot CLI introduces slash commands that allow users to control their terminal AI agent, including switching models, checking token usage, and resuming past sessions. The commands, such as /m…
GitHub released the GitHub Multilingual Repositories Dataset, a metadata dataset covering over 40 million repositories to help researchers and developers find public repositories with non-English natu…
GitHub Copilot CLI released a smarter subagent delegation feature that reduced tool failures per session by 23% and improved user wait times by up to 5% at P95, with no quality regression. The improve…
GitHub announced new configurations and controls for Copilot code review, including organization-level runner controls, content exclusion support, and removal of the character limit on repository cust…
GitHub experienced nine incidents causing degraded performance across its services in May 2026, including a major disruption on May 4 that lasted over an hour and affected pull requests, issues, actio…
GitHub now allows pull requests created by the `github-actions[bot]` to run CI/CD workflows if approved by a user with write access to the repository. The change requires explicit user approval as a s…
GitHub has updated its AI usage reports to reflect AI Credits usage in standard report fields, replacing the preview fields `aic_quantity` and `aic_gross_amount` with `quantity` and `gross_amount`. A …
GitHub Copilot CLI has introduced a unified `/settings` slash command that consolidates previously scattered configuration options like `/theme`, `/streamer-mode`, and `/experimental` into a single, s…
GitHub launched Agentic Workflows in public preview, enabling users to automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates using coding agents within GitHu…
GitHub collaborated with Microsoft Security & AI's Agents Offense team to reduce false positives in secret scanning by adding contextual reasoning to the verification process. The approach extracts hi…
GitHub announced that Agentic Workflows can now use the built-in `GITHUB_TOKEN` from GitHub Actions, eliminating the need to create and store personal access tokens (PATs). The change reduces operatio…