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…
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…
/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
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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
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…