Copilot chat on GitHub.com just leveled up! It now supports repository-specific custom instructions, giving you a more tailored and personalized chat experience. This means you can provide Copilot with important…
Starting Tuesday, February 18, 2025, we are updating our retention policy so that the last_activity_at value of the user management API will only be stored by GitHub for 90 days.…
This week’s Copilot Workspace updates are focused on improvements to navigation and file management. As ever, drop your feedback into this discussion. Simpler file tree navigation When folders don’t have…
We share some of the GitHub Copilot team’s experience evaluating AI models, with a focus on our offline evaluations—the tests we run before making any change to our production environment.
On March 31, 2025, GitHub Copilot Extensions will require an updated header format for agent requests. Both updated and previous versions of the request headers will be supported until then.…
The ability to ask Copilot about Actions job failures is now Generally Available. Simply press “Explain Error” from the pull request merge box or the Actions job page to chat…
Learn how to document and explain legacy code with GitHub Copilot with real-world examples.
How Copilot can generate unit tests, refactor code, create documentation, perform multi-file edits, and much more.
Happy new year! We’ve got fresh Copilot Workspace updates for you this week, including the ability to add a new file directly to the file tree and reduced latency in…
We are excited to announce that all paying Copilot customers can now use the technical preview of GitHub Copilot Workspace. Copilot Workspace is a Copilot-native development environment designed to help…
Welcome to another week of Copilot Workspace updates! We have a bunch this week, so let’s jump right in! 🎉 Copilot Workspace Handling large files Workspace will now inform you…
An interview with economic researchers analyzing the causal effect of GitHub Copilot on how open source maintainers work.
OpenAI’s brand new o1 model is now available in Copilot Chat for Copilot Pro, Business and Enterprise subscribers. The new o1 model replaces o1-preview, and offers even better performance in…
The December 17 release of OpenAI’s o1 model is now available in GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models, bringing advanced coding capabilities to your workflows.
Free Tier Support for GitHub Copilot Now Available on JetBrains IDEs We’re excited to introduce the Free Tier for GitHub Copilot, now available for JetBrains IDEs! Starting today, you can…
With the new GitHub Copilot Free plan, anyone can experiment with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code and on GitHub! By simply signing in with your personal GitHub account, you…
Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code.
Elevate your coding skills with our redesigned Copilot Chat, now featuring a dedicated home on GitHub. What’s new in Copilot Chat on GitHub: Immersive chat experience at github.com/copilot: Copilot is…
New REST API endpoints for code scanning allow you to request the generation of Copilot Autofix for code scanning alerts. These endpoints also provide the Autofix generation status, along with…
GitHub Copilot Extensions can now access local context in your editor and github.com to provide you with richer and more tailored responses. As a developer, you can benefit from context…
As you may have seen in Discord a few weeks ago, Copilot Workspace is graduating! It is a very exciting time, and also a time of change. So before getting…
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