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Every NG Tech LLC signal, daily brief, and feature tied to GitHub, grouped by publish date.
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On August 18, 2026, GitHub let enterprise admins enforce Copilot settings across JetBrains IDEs, including allowlists and denylists for which MCP servers developers can reach, the…
On August 14, 2026, Grok 4.6 became selectable in GitHub Copilot's model picker across eight surfaces (VS Code, Visual Studio, the Copilot CLI, the Copilot cloud agent, the Copilo…
On August 13, 2026, GitHub made Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash model available in GitHub Copilot for Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copil…
GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available, letting developers build a plugin once and run it across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app. The…
On August 7, 2026 GitHub made Copilot code review effort levels generally available, letting teams match review depth to pull-request complexity. The former Low and Medium tiers w…
On August 7, 2026 GitHub expanded the Copilot usage metrics API to include agent application activity, giving organizations deeper visibility into automated task execution alongsi…
On August 4, 2026 GitHub and Microsoft released the GitHub Copilot agentic harness as stable for both .NET and Python inside the Microsoft Agent Framework, letting developers use…
GitHub shipped Copilot CLI v1.0.78, adding a live tool-call timeline that shows how long each tool call takes (ticking live for calls of five seconds or more, on by default), an e…
GitHub added a per-task reasoning-level control for the Copilot cloud agent. Users pick a reasoning level alongside the model when starting a task, and the agent uses it for that…
GitHub launched user-based model policy targeting for Copilot in public preview on July 31, 2026, letting AI administrators set a baseline set of models for the whole enterprise a…
GitHub tightened npm security on July 31, 2026: granular access tokens configured to bypass 2FA can no longer perform sensitive account, organization, and package management actio…
On July 30, 2026, GitHub's July Visual Studio Copilot update introduced a new Agent (Preview) in the agent picker, built on the same GitHub Copilot SDK that powers the Copilot CLI…
On July 30, 2026, GitHub summarized Copilot's July VS Code releases (v1.127-v1.131), centered on the Agents window: reviewing code beside chat with diff counts, Git worktree suppo…
GitHub launched stacked pull requests in public preview on July 30, 2026, letting developers break large changes into an ordered series of small, independently reviewable pull req…
GitHub retired GitHub Models as of July 30, 2026, shutting down its playground, model catalog, inference API, and bring-your-own-key (BYOK) access for all customers. GitHub direct…
On July 29, 2026, GitHub moved Copilot code review support for agent skills and Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to general availability for all Copilot Pro, Pro+, Business, a…
GitHub added publish-time malware scanning to npm on July 28, 2026, screening packages as they are published and attaching dual-use metadata, tightening the registrys defenses aga…
In late July 2026, GitHub introduced custom agents for the Copilot CLI: developers define an agent in a Markdown file stored in a repository's .github/agents directory (or ~/.copi…
On July 23, 2026, GitHub announced general availability of the Copilot coding agent for Linear. From a Linear issue, users can hand work to Copilot's cloud agent, which spins up i…
On July 22, 2026, GitHub released a Copilot usage-metrics impact dashboard for enterprise admins and org owners that sorts users into adoption phases (code-first, agent-first, mul…
GitHub added a /security-review slash command to the Copilot app in public preview that analyzes current workstream changes and returns severity- and confidence-scored security fi…
GitHub expanded bring-your-own-key (BYOK) capabilities for GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs, giving JetBrains developers broader control over which model providers and keys back t…
CodeQL 2.26.0, released July 10, 2026, introduces a JavaScript and TypeScript query that flags untrusted values flowing into AI model system prompts, and adds prompt-injection sin…
GitHub launched agentic autofix in public preview for code scanning alerts, letting Copilot explore relevant files across a codebase, propose and validate fixes, and open draft pu…
On July 9, 2026 GitHub added OpenAI's newly released GPT-5.6 models — Sol, Terra, and Luna — to GitHub Copilot, letting developers select the flagship, balanced, or low-cost tier…
On July 9, 2026, GitHub shipped a Copilot feature that offers to generate a high-level overview when a user visits the home page of a repository they haven't contributed to. Copil…
Across its July 2026 releases, GitHub Copilot CLI tightened agent safety: v1.0.70 (July 9) added configurable subagent concurrency and depth limits plus preToolUse hooks that deny…
GitHub's July 8, 2026 Copilot changelog for VS Code (covering versions 1.123–1.127) makes agentic browser tools generally available — letting agents navigate pages, inspect conten…
On July 7, 2026, GitHub released a public preview making OpenAI Codex a selectable agent provider inside JetBrains IDEs, expanded the Copilot Customizations editor with hooks supp…
On July 7, 2026, GitHub made the Copilot desktop app available on every Copilot plan, including Free and Education, with bring-your-own-key support. The release shifts agent-drive…
GitHub moved its agent-native Copilot desktop app to general availability for all users and expanded JetBrains IDE support with Codex as an agent provider and new agentic capabili…
On July 2, 2026 GitHub added AI credit pools to cost centers, letting enterprises cap a cost center's included Copilot AI credits to what its own assigned Copilot Business and Ent…
On July 2, 2026 GitHub put Copilot agent session streaming into public preview, giving GitHub Enterprise Cloud admins access to agent session data (prompts, responses, and tool ca…
On July 2, 2026 GitHub removed the need for personal access tokens when running Copilot CLI inside GitHub Actions; workflows can now authenticate with the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN us…
GitHub made Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.7 Code generally available in the GitHub Copilot model picker, the first open-weight model to join an otherwise all-proprietary roster. The MIT-l…
On July 1, 2026 GitHub moved browser tools for Copilot in VS Code to general availability, letting agents open and navigate live web apps, clicking, typing, hovering, dragging, ha…
On July 1, 2026 GitHub made enterprise managed-settings.json generally available, letting GitHub Enterprise Cloud admins centrally govern Copilot clients (VS Code, Copilot CLI) vi…
On June 30, 2026 GitHub and JetBrains made GitHub Copilot a first-class option in the JetBrains AI Assistant agent picker. Developers can select Copilot as the active agent direct…
On June 17, 2026 GitHub released agent finder for Copilot, which lets Copilot discover the right MCP servers, skills, agents, and tools for a task from a described goal instead of…
GitHub Copilot CLI’s v1.0.60 release appeared in the June 6 CLI digest with fixes around terminal multiplexer behavior and Anthropic reasoning compatibility. The release is a smal…
GitHub’s copilot-sdk appeared in the June 6 open-source trends as a multi-platform SDK for integrating GitHub Copilot Agent into apps and services. The signal points to Copilot mo…
GitHub Copilot CLI’s release line advanced from v1.0.48-0 headless MCP fixes into v1.0.57-4, with Agents Radar flagging security-hardened release work and a post-v1.0.56 authentic…
GitHub Copilot CLI v1.0.40 arrived as the project closed a long-running OAuth MCP milestone and moved into post-1.0 stabilization. The update signals a continued push to make MCP-…
GitHub Copilot CLI's April 17 v1.0.32 release adds an auto model picker, direct --connect support for remote sessions by ID, configurable session idle timeout, and warnings at 75%…
GitHub added a workflow that lets teams assign Dependabot alerts to coding agents including Copilot, Claude, and Codex so the agent can analyze the vulnerability and open a draft…