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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…

Editor’s note (April 20, 2026): We updated this post to clarify in preview, VNET failover manual and not automated This month, GitHub Actions adds entrypoint and command overrides for service…

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.…

The top-level Security tab across repositories, organizations, and enterprises has been renamed to Security & quality on github.com. This change restructures the navigation to colocate code quality findings alongside security…

Finding the right issue just got easier. First introduced in public preview in January and expanded to the Issues dashboard in February, improved search for GitHub Issues is now generally…

Recent attacks on open source focus on exfiltrating secrets; here are the prevention steps you can take today, plus a look at the security capabilities GitHub is working on.

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…

GitHub Mobile now makes it easier to delegate work with a new Assign an Agent option in the issue overflow menu, so you can get started more quickly. When assigning…

Dependabot can now detect and update Swift package dependencies in Xcode projects that manage packages through .xcodeproj bundles, even when no Package.swift file is present. This improvement has been one…

I used coding agents to build agents that automated part of my job. Here’s what I learned about working better with coding agents.

You can now create GitHub Issues directly from Slack using natural language with the GitHub app for Slack. Mention @GitHub in any channel, describe the work you need to track,…

A public preview of the refreshed pull requests dashboard is now available at github.com/pulls, introducing a new pull request inbox and saved views so you can organize and prioritize the…

A look at GitHub Actions’ 2026 roadmap, outlining how secure defaults, policy controls, and CI/CD observability harden the software supply chain end to end.

Reviewed advisories hit a four-year low, malware advisories surged, and CNA publishing grew—here’s what changed and what it means for your triage and response.

From April 24 onward, interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out.

Hey GitHub Community, We’ve made some important updates to our Privacy Statement and Terms of Service to keep you informed about how we handle your data. Notably, from April 24…

Repository admins can now disable comments on individual commits, a small but meaningful improvement for maintainers dealing with unwanted noise on old commits. A new “Commits” section in repository settings…

Learn how to integrate the Copilot SDK into a React Native app to generate AI-powered issue summaries, with production patterns for graceful degradation and caching.