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GitHub's changelog adds a telemetry property and endpoint to enterprise managed-settings.json, exporting agent session flows, step traces, model requests and tool calls. Prompt and response content excluded by default. Teams get agent traces without each developer configuring an exporter.
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A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Anthropic invented a file convention. It's now shipping GA inside a competitor's product. Nobody wrote a spec, nobody held a standards meeting, it just happened. On July 29, GitHub made agent skills and MCP server support generally available in Copilot code review for all Pro,...
An open-weight Chinese frontier model is now a dropdown option in Microsoft's coding product. That happened before anyone finished characterizing what the model does. GitHub's changelog dated August 6 makes Kimi K3 generally available across Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max, Business an...
Released June 17, the Copilot app is a desktop home for agent-driven development built natively on GitHub, moving Copilot beyond the IDE. It pairs with the now-GA Copilot SDK and sandboxes for headless and autonomous workflows. (GitHub) This positions Copilot as a CLI/app-firs...
GitHub announced that every Copilot plan moves to usage-based billing via "AI Credits" on June 1, 2026. The flat-rate model is dead. Every plan gets a monthly credit allotment calculated by actual token consumption (input, output, cached) at listed API rates. Code completions...
Check your GitHub Copilot settings right now. As of April 24, GitHub's updated privacy policy flipped the default for all Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users: your interaction data, including prompts, suggestions, and code snippets from your context, now trains AI models unless...
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