In July, we announced a default model policy for generally available GitHub Copilot models on Copilot Business and Copilot Enterprise plans. Starting today, we’re gradually rolling out enforcement of the…
GitHub Copilot is more useful when it works with the tools, knowledge, and workflows your team already relies on. The new Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app brings MCP…
The GitHub integration in Slack now brings the agentic capabilities of GitHub Copilot CLI and the GitHub Copilot app into Slack in public preview. You can work with @GitHub to…
Turn a Microsoft Teams discussion into a collaborative agent session everyone can see and help direct. Mention @GitHub in a channel, thread, or direct message to start a GitHub Copilot…
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains now supports enterprise managed settings for plugin governance, MCP server access, OpenTelemetry, and permission modes. Administrators can now apply consistent controls for everyone on your enterprise’s…
Grok 4.6, xAI’s latest reasoning model, is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for agentic coding and complex multi-step workflows. In our internal testing, Grok 4.6 showed…
The /sandbox configuration dialog shows where sandbox settings are stored in settings.json
Add support for enterprise allow-auto-only policy so /allow-all auto works while full allow-all remains blocked.
Allow enterprise-managed sandbox policy to enforce a proxy URL while credentials remain user-controlled
A tool directory inside your workspace that is on PATH (.venv/bin, node_modules/.bin, an in-repo GOPATH) no longer turns that part of the workspace read-only in the sandbox
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Timeline headers show how long each tool call took, right-aligned and ticking live while it runs (for calls of at least 5 seconds). On by default — disable with /settings showToolDurations.
First-party plugins automatically update to the latest version at session start
Add the experimental /new-worktree command to create a new worktree and start a new conversation in it
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Unconditional autopilot approval now disables sandbox for the current session when bypass is allowed
Ctrl+G opens your editor to edit ask_user freeform answers without closing the prompt
Add a browser-based (web) OAuth login flow, now the default for copilot login on local interactive terminals (device code remains the default on remote/headless terminals). Use --web-flow/--device-code to force a mode, or pick one in the interactive /login command
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Add enable/disable controls in /plugins for plugins, instructions, agents, LSP servers, and hooks
Add support for the grok-4.5 model
Sandbox denied paths are enforced for relative and symlinked entries on macOS and Linux (Windows cannot deny per path)
Unsent prompt text now stays with the session it was typed for (for the rest of the CLI session) instead of following you to the session you switch to
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