Browse GitHub Copilot News (209)

David Sanchez lays out a practical DevOps playbook for teams adopting AI coding agents (including GitHub Copilot Cloud Agent), focusing on readiness prerequisites, human–agent collaboration patterns, pipeline changes, governance, and security controls needed to keep quality and accountability intact as non-human contributors scale up.

Allison announces that GitHub Copilot’s third-party coding agents (Claude and Codex) now support model selection on github.com, including the currently available Claude Sonnet/Opus and GPT-5 Codex model options, plus notes on required admin policies and repo settings.

Dorothy Pearce introduces GitHub’s free Code Security Risk Assessment, a one-click scan that uses CodeQL to surface vulnerabilities across up to 20 active repositories, and explains how the results help teams prioritize remediation (including where Copilot Autofix may apply).

Allison announces updates to GitHub Code Quality standard findings (public preview), including faster triage features like file-path search, bulk dismiss/reopen, and richer per-finding context, with fix suggestions generated by GitHub Copilot Autofix.

Allison announces GitHub Copilot data residency for US and EU regions plus FedRAMP Moderate support, outlining what features are covered, which models are available, the pricing uplift for compliant endpoints, and how enterprise/org admins can enable the policies.

Allison announces a new “Fix with Copilot” button on github.com that uses Copilot cloud agent to resolve merge conflicts, verify builds/tests, and push updates from a cloud development environment, plus @copilot commands for PR fixes and workflow failures.

Allison announces a public preview feature for GitHub Copilot CLI that enables remote control of running CLI sessions from GitHub on the web and in GitHub Mobile, including monitoring, steering messages, plan review, and policy-controlled permissions.

Allison explains upcoming GitHub Copilot limit changes aimed at improving service reliability, including rate limiting behavior, guidance to switch models or use Auto mode, and the retirement of Opus 4.6 Fast for Copilot Pro+ users.

Allison announces updates to the GitHub Copilot usage metrics API, adding aggregated daily, weekly, and monthly active user counts for Copilot cloud agent (formerly Copilot coding agent) in enterprise and organization reports.

Allison announces a temporary pause on new GitHub Copilot Pro free trials due to increased abuse, while GitHub investigates and adds stronger safeguards; existing trials and paid options (including Copilot Free) continue to work as normal.

Allison explains an update to the GitHub Copilot usage metrics API where Copilot CLI activity is now included in top-level totals and feature breakdowns, changing how enterprise and organization dashboards should interpret usage fields.

Christopher Harrison introduces GitHub Copilot CLI with a beginner-friendly walkthrough: install via npm, authenticate, grant folder permissions, and start prompting Copilot from your terminal (including delegating work to the Copilot cloud agent).

Allison shares a GitHub update: Copilot cloud agent now runs its built-in security and quality validation tools in parallel, cutting validation time by about 20%, while keeping the same checks (CodeQL, secret scanning, Advisory Database, and Copilot code review).

Arnaud Lheureux, davidwright, and sdaniels walk through a hands-on “agentic platform engineering” demo using Git-ape inside VS Code, where GitHub Copilot agents (via Azure MCP) can deploy and manage Azure infrastructure through validated, policy-aware actions.

Dylan Birtolo announces that organization admins and security managers can now open a GitHub Copilot experience from Code Security and secret risk assessment results to get contextual explanations and guided next steps.

Jakub Oleksy summarizes four March 2026 GitHub incidents, including outages affecting github.com/API, GitHub Actions, and GitHub Copilot/Copilot Coding Agent, with root causes (caching, Redis config, auth/credentials) and concrete mitigations like rollbacks, improved monitoring, and configuration safeguards.

Allison announces new GitHub Copilot usage metrics API fields that measure how Copilot code review affects pull request merges and time-to-merge, enabling enterprise and org owners to track adoption and review impact across reporting windows.

Allison announces that GitHub Mobile now supports expanded GitHub Copilot cloud agent workflows, letting developers research a codebase, plan changes, edit code on a branch, review diffs, and open pull requests directly from a mobile device.

Rachel Cohen shares a call for sessions for GitHub Universe (Oct 28–29) and highlights five memorable past talks—covering Git workflow tips, secure GitHub Actions patterns with Copilot, GitHub Advanced Security, Kubernetes security training themes, and Copilot Autofix-style AI-assisted remediation.

Allison summarizes the March/early April 2026 GitHub Copilot updates in VS Code (v1.111–v1.115), focusing on more autonomous agent sessions (Autopilot), expanded debugging and multimodal chat capabilities, and improved customization and troubleshooting tools.