11/2025

Copilot coding agent, our asynchronous, autonomous background agent, now supports organization custom instructions. Custom instructions allow you to guide Copilot on how to understand your project as well as how…

Copilot coding agent is our asynchronous, autonomous background agent. When Copilot coding agent finishes its work, it updates the body of its pull request with a summary of changes. Now,…

Editor’s note (November 5, 2025): We’ve updated this post to explicitly clarify that the affected tokens are npm tokens. Today marks another milestone in our ongoing effort to strengthen npm’s…

Secret scanning — October 2025 GitHub secret scanning continually adds support for new secret types. The following updates were made during the month of October. Base64-encoded secrets: Secret scanning now…

We have fixed an issue that occasionally caused Copilot policies for an organization to show the wrong options when the enterprise policy was set to Unconfigured. What’s changed The Copilot…

You can now require approvals from specific teams to merge changes into protected branches based on files and folders, giving you more control over who approves changes into specific branches.…

Enterprise owners can now delegate AI and Copilot policy as well as setup administration to their enterprise members and teams. You can now do this without granting broad enterprise ownership.…

We’re expanding our billing APIs with new capabilities to help you programmatically manage budgets, track usage, and access cost center data. Manage budgets via APIs You can now manage the…

GitHub admins can now manage access to Copilot agent mode for IDE via the Copilot policies page on github.com. What’s changed To provide better governance, Copilot policies now allow for…

As your AI-powered development workflows expand, so should your ability to effectively manage them. Today, we’re launching two new premium request SKUs for GitHub Copilot coding agent and GitHub Spark,…