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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…

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…

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…

VS Code moved to weekly stable releases. This changelog covers releases v1.111 through v1.115, the releases we shipped throughout March and early April 2026. The highlights include Autopilot for fully…

GitHub Copilot CLI now lets you connect your own model provider or run fully local models instead of using GitHub-hosted model routing. This means you can use the models and…

Copilot usage metrics now indicate which users have Copilot code review (CCR) activity, and whether that activity was active or passive. Enterprise and organization admins can see how users engage…

Discover how Rubber Duck provides a different perspective to GitHub Copilot CLI.

Each time Copilot cloud agent works on a task, it starts a new development environment powered by GitHub Actions. By default, this runs on a standard GitHub-hosted runner, but teams…

Copilot cloud agent includes a built-in agent firewall to control Copilot’s internet access and help protect against prompt injection and data exfiltration. Until now, the firewall was configured at the…

Copilot cloud agent now signs every commit it makes. Signed commits appear as Verified on GitHub, giving you confidence that the commit was genuinely made by the agent and hasn’t…

The GitHub Copilot SDK is now available in public preview. This gives you the building blocks to embed Copilot’s agentic capabilities directly into your own applications, workflows, and platform services.…

Following our enterprise-level, user-level, and organization-level CLI metrics releases, we’re completing coverage with per-user CLI breakdowns in organization reports. Organization admins can now see which individual users are active on…

March 2026 brought a major step forward for GitHub Copilot extensibility in Visual Studio, with custom agents, agent skills, and new tools that make the agent smarter and more capable.…

Organization custom instructions for GitHub Copilot, first introduced in April 2025, are now generally available. With organization custom instructions, Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise organization administrators can set default instructions…

Copilot cloud agent (formerly known as Copilot coding agent) is no longer limited to pull-request workflows, unlocking a broader range of ways to put Copilot to work. More control over…

GPT-5.4 mini is now generally available to Copilot Student plan via Copilot auto model selection. This model is part of Auto in GitHub Copilot Chat on Visual Studio Code, Visual…

GitHub Mobile now makes it easier to manage agentic workflows on the go with a refreshed Copilot tab, native session logs, and more in-app controls for agent sessions. On Android,…

/fleet lets Copilot CLI dispatch multiple agents in parallel. Learn how to write prompts that split work across files, declare dependencies, and avoid common pitfalls.

Editor’s note (May 1, 2026): Updated the deprecation date to May 6, 2026 from May 1, 2026. We will deprecate the following model across all GitHub Copilot experiences (including Copilot…

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