As GitHub Copilot continues to rapidly grow, we continue to observe an increase in patterns of high concurrency and intense usage. While we understand this can be driven by legitimate…
Note: We’ve recently renamed Copilot coding agent to Copilot cloud agent. We will be updating our data schema for all existing coding agent fields to reflect this change in the…
April 13, 2026 update: All GitHub Copilot Pro trials, including existing trials, have been paused while our investigation continues. In the meantime, if you were on a Copilot trial, you…
Actions workflows are now limited to 50 reruns. Going forward, if you attempt to rerun a given workflow more than 50 times, you will get a failed check suite with…
Previous CLI metrics releases added a standalone totals_by_cli section to the Copilot usage metrics API with session counts, request counts, and token usage. That section reported CLI activity separately from…
When Copilot cloud agent writes code, it automatically runs GitHub’s security and quality validation tools, including CodeQL, the GitHub Advisory Database, secret scanning, and Copilot code review. If any problems…
Organization admins and security managers can now jump into a Copilot experience directly from secret risk assessment or Code Security risk assessment results to get contextual explanations and guided next…
GitHub moderators can now classify hidden comments as Low Quality, a new option in the Hide comment dropdown menu available across issues, discussions, pull requests, and commits. Previously, the available…
A new “Sort by” control appears on the Notifications page, with two options: Newest to oldest (which matches the previous behavior) and Oldest to newest. The selected sort order applies…
You can now see repository member role labels directly in the pull request list view for public repositories. Role labels, such as First-time contributor, Contributor, and Member, now appear inline…
This update brings release tracking closer to your issues, configurable defaults for project fields, and faster navigation across related issues. Release information in the issue sidebar When an issue is…
Building on the pull request throughput and cycle-time metrics shipped in February, which track Copilot-created pull requests from the coding agent, the Copilot usage metrics API now includes two new…
This week, we’re rolling out several improvements to our APIs, webhooks, and delegated workflows. These improvements strengthen our continued investment in the developer experience of our secret scanning features. Built…
Copilot cloud agent now supports more than pull request workflows on GitHub Mobile, so you can keep work moving even when you’re away from your desk. Ask Copilot to research…
Organization admins and security managers can now run a free Code Security risk assessment to review security vulnerabilities across their organization. The assessment summarizes vulnerabilities by severity, rule type, and…
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