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The repos-1-day reports add median and p90 minutes for ready-to-first-review, first-to-final-review, and final-review-to-merge, plus total_merged and authored_by/reviewed_by. Bot reviews are excluded and nothing backfills before September 21, 2026. It gives orgs a baseline to test whether Copilot code review actually shortens review cycles, which until now has been a vibes-based claim.
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As of September 9, Copilot Business and Enterprise admins set which agent operations are blocked, require human approval, or run unprompted across shell commands, file reads and edits, and network domains. Restrictions can't be weakened by user or workspace settings, auto-appr...
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...
Enterprise-managed MCP allowlists shipped August 6 across the Copilot app, Copilot CLI and VS Code, configured with allowedMcpServers and deniedMcpServers in copilot/managed-settings.json inside the org's .github-private repo. Match by serverUrl with wildcards for remote HTTP/...
The July 30 changelog closed the hosted model-catalog and playground service that let developers prototype against multiple LLMs from GitHub directly. If you prototyped against Models endpoints, this is a migration event, not a skim. The surrounding changelog items (Copilot up...
43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1. Opus 4.8 scored 18.7%. That's not an incremental bump, that's the same benchmark with a different shape of answer. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, exactly half of Fable 5's $10/$50, while matc...
Three parts: Home (Chat plus Cowork), Code, and Autopilot. Word, Excel and PowerPoint files can be created and edited inside Copilot while teammates edit the same files from regular Office apps. Home and Code roll out through the Frontier program over coming weeks, Autopilot a...
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