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Copilot in VS Code gives each agent session its own git worktree

GitHub's Copilot July 2026 release notes for VS Code cover versions 1.127 through 1.131 and land a redesigned Agents window that can start a Copilot, Claude, or Codex session in an isolated git worktree, plus multi-chat inside one session and a bang-prefix that runs the chat line as a terminal command. Copilot vision is now generally available.

Jul 31, 2026 · Priya Nair Developer experience

Codex lands in JetBrains: an in-IDE agent slot, and less config to babysit

GitHub's Copilot integration for JetBrains adds Codex as an agent provider in public preview, moves hook and MCP server management into the editor, and now honours admin-configured custom models. Here is what a JetBrains user should try first, and where the preview edges still show.

Jul 13, 2026 · Priya Nair Platform engineering

GitHub lets enterprises pin Copilot's OpenTelemetry endpoint

A new enterprise-managed setting mandates where the Copilot Chat extension in VS Code and Copilot CLI send OpenTelemetry data. The managed value overrides environment variables and user settings.

Jul 12, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Developer experience

A running cost meter and an MCP tripwire land in Visual Studio's June update

Visual Studio's June Stable Channel update adds a real-time Copilot usage window with configurable alerts and a trust check that pauses MCP servers whose configuration has changed between sessions. Both arrive in the same weeks engineers have been posting screenshots of surprise Copilot invoices after GitHub moved to usage-based billing on June 1.

Jul 11, 2026 · Priya Nair Platform engineering

GitHub streams Copilot agent sessions to the SIEM, in preview

GitHub put Copilot agent session streaming into public preview on July 2, exposing prompts, responses and tool calls from cloud agents and IDE clients to enterprise event collectors. For CI-adjacent workflows it turns Copilot from a black box into something an on-call can reconstruct after the fact.

Jul 7, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Platform engineering

GitHub Copilot's enterprise managed-settings.json is now GA

GitHub Enterprise Cloud can now pin five Copilot behaviours from a single managed-settings.json in a .github-private repository. The file overrides local user config, is fetched on every auth, and refreshes hourly.

Jul 5, 2026 · Maya Okonkwo Platform engineering

Copilot for JetBrains gets org-curated agents, mid-run CLI steering, and Claude in preview

GitHub's June 22 Copilot update lands a cluster of changes for JetBrains IDE users: organization- and enterprise-level custom agents now flow through the Copilot Chat agent picker, Copilot CLI sessions gain a mid-run steer-or-queue dropdown, and Claude is available as an agent provider in public preview.

Jun 23, 2026 · Priya Nair Platform engineering

GitHub's agent finder lets Copilot look up its own tools

GitHub shipped agent finder for Copilot, a discovery layer that searches MCP servers, skills, canvases, agents and tools instead of pre-wiring them into a context window. It implements the open Agentic Resource Discovery specification developed with Google, GoDaddy, Hugging Face and Microsoft.

Jun 18, 2026 · Priya Nair Security & supply chain

GitHub gives enterprises a kill switch for Copilot's yolo mode

Enterprise-managed settings can now block GitHub Copilot CLI and VS Code from running in bypass-permission mode, the first governance control to land in that configuration plane.

Jun 17, 2026 · Tomás Vega