How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation
Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob.
Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob.
In May, we experienced nine incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.
GitHub Agentic Workflows is now in public preview. With agentic workflows, you can automate reasoning-based tasks like issue triage, CI failure analysis, and documentation updates by leveraging coding agents inside…
We’ve improved the handoff experience between Copilot Chat and Copilot cloud agent on the web. We’ve also enabled new functionality which allows you to search and query past agent sessions…
CodeQL scans on pull requests for C/C++ and Go now run incrementally, making them faster. Earlier this year, we released improved incremental analysis for CodeQL analysis of C#, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript,…
Dependabot now supports Deno. This applies to version updates, not security updates. Get started Add a Deno entry to your .github/dependabot.yml file, and Dependabot will start opening pull requests on…
Custom agents let GitHub Copilot CLI understand your stack and team workflows, turning one-off terminal prompts into repeatable, reviewable processes.
GitHub code scanning now supports scheduled security scans of repositories that have had no pushes or pull requests for six months or more. Organizations can use this to maintain continuous…
Security validation for third-party coding agents is now generally available. GitHub supports third-party coding agents (including Claude and OpenAI Codex) that work directly within your repositories to implement features, fix…
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Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Max users can now programmatically start and track Copilot cloud agent tasks with the Agent tasks REST API, available in public preview. Copilot cloud agent works…
Enterprise Teams is now generally available on GitHub Enterprise Cloud. First announced in public preview last September, enterprise teams let enterprise admins define a group of users once at the…
Editor’s note (June 5, 2026): Removed the waitlist link and updated the links to the GitHub Copilot app. The GitHub Copilot app technical preview is now available to all existing…
At Microsoft Build 2026, GitHub introduced new tools, updates, and surfaces so agents can work the way you already work.
GitHub Copilot CLI is getting a major refresh at Microsoft Build 2026. Rubber duck and voice input are generally available today, and both prompt scheduling and a new experimental terminal…
GitHub Copilot code review for Azure Repos is now available in technical preview, bringing on demand pull request reviews directly into your Azure DevOps workflow. How it works Once enabled…
Copilot code review adapts to your team’s tools and standards and scales its depth to the complexity of each change. Today we’re shipping two public previews: Agent skills and MCP…
Agent apps are AI agents from GitHub partners, installable from the GitHub Marketplace, and integrated directly into GitHub. You install an agent app just like any other GitHub App from…
With the new automations feature, Copilot cloud agent can now run automatically, on a schedule or in response to repository events. Automations let you hand off repetitive tasks to the…
To help you tell a deeper Copilot adoption story—not just who is active, but how they’re using Copilot—the Copilot usage metrics API now classifies each engaged user into an AI…
Dependabot now supports sbt. Add sbt as a package ecosystem in your dependabot.yml file. Dependabot will then monitor your build.sbt inputs and open pull requests when newer commits are available…
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