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Copilot CLI now supports BYOK and local models

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…

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1.0.20

2026-04-07

  • Add copilot help monitoring topic with OpenTelemetry configuration details and examples
  • Spinner stays active until background agents and shell commands finish, and user input remains available throughout
  • Azure OpenAI BYOK defaults to the GA versionless v1 route when no API version is configured
  • Reduce UI sluggishness during live response streaming
  • /yolo and --yolo now behave identically and /yolo state persists across /restart

Copilot usage metrics now identify active and passive Copilot code review users

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…

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1.0.19

2026-04-06

  • /mcp enable and /mcp disable now persist across sessions
  • OpenTelemetry monitoring: subagent spans now use INTERNAL span kind, and chat spans include a github.copilot.time_to_first_chunk attribute (streaming only)
  • Plugin hook scripts with missing execute permissions now run correctly on macOS
  • Custom agent is properly restored when resuming a session where the agent display name differs from its filename ...

1.0.18

2026-04-04

  • New Critic agent automatically reviews plans and complex implementations using a complementary model to catch errors early (available in experimental mode for Claude models)
  • Session resume picker correctly groups sessions by branch and repository on first use
  • preToolUse hook permissionDecision 'allow' now suppresses the tool approval prompt
  • Add notification hook event that fires asynchronously on shell completion, permission prompts, elicitation dialogs, and agent completion

Organization runner controls for Copilot cloud agent

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…

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