Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science
…Holy crap! Below, I’ll go into detail about these three principles and how they enabled this amazing feat of collaboration and innovation. Prompting strategies We know that AI coding agents are…
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Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing
…For context-dependent messages in longer agentic sessions, the router is trained on complete multi-turn conversations, including the original user intent, recent assistant responses, and conversation metadata. Auto with task intent…
Continuous AI for accessibility: How GitHub transforms feedback into inclusion
…Design annotations, code scanners, accessibility champions, and testing with people with disabilities—these aren’t replaced by AI. They are what make AI-assisted workflows effective. Without that human foundation, AI is…
A cheat sheet to slash commands in GitHub Copilot CLI
…Switching agent configurations by repository/org/project Testing specialized or third-party agents /delegate
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
…It has evolved from an in-editor assistant into an agentic platform capable of running long, multi-step coding sessions, using the latest models, and iterating across entire repositories. Agentic usage is…
Welcome to Maintainer Month: Celebrating the people behind the code
…And with the speed of AI, the people doing the work are carrying more than ever. Pull requests merged on GitHub have nearly doubled year over year, and agentic workflows are accelerating…
Building AI-powered GitHub issue triage with the Copilot SDK
…Here’s how we instrumented our own production workflows, found the inefficiencies, and built agents to fix them. AI & ML Agent pull requests are everywhere. Here’s how to review them. A…
Investing in the people shaping open source and securing the future together
…Maintainers of impactful open source projects already have access to Copilot Pro, which includes AI-assisted code review, agentic security remediation workflows, and access to a broad set of leading models all…
Updates to our Privacy Statement and Terms of Service: How we use your data - GitHub Changelog
…This includes improving features, developing new offerings, enhancing safety and security, and training models that power GitHub’s AI-assisted features like GitHub Copilot. We apply appropriate technical safeguards, including filters designed…
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…next era of AI tools and agents MCP is moving to the Linux Foundation. Here’s how that will affect developers. “The local-first rebellion”: How Home Assistant became the most important…