… Why this matters With this update, you can: Track Copilot coding agent adoption across your enterprise and organization alongside existing IDE metrics. Distinguish between IDE agent mode usage used agent and Copilot coding agent usage used copilot coding agent for clearer adoption insights. …
… Copilot coding agent is available to Copilot Pro, Copilot Pro+, Copilot Business, and Copilot Enterprise subscribers. If you’re a Copilot Business or Copilot Enterprise subscriber, an administrator will have to enable Copilot coding agent from the “Policies” page before you can use it. …
… When using the Claude coding agent, the following models are currently available: Claude Sonnet 4.6 Claude Opus 4.6 Claude Sonnet 4.5 Claude Opus 4.5 When using the Codex coding agent, the following models are currently available: GPT-5.2-Codex GPT-5.3-Codex GPT-5.4 For more information, see our do… …
… Assigning Dependabot alerts to coding agents requires GitHub Code Security and a Copilot plan that includes coding agent access . …
Back to changelog Organization owners who want to manage Copilot coding agent access at scale can now do so programmatically with the new Copilot coding agent management REST APIs , available in public preview. …
Back to changelog Copilot coding agent now has access to a semantic code search tool, allowing it to find relevant code based on meaning rather than relying on exact text matches with tools like grep . …
… Repository admins can now configure which validation tools the coding agent runs from the Copilot - Coding agent section in repository settings. …
Back to changelog We’ve optimized Copilot coding agent so it now starts work 50% faster. You can hand work to Copilot coding agent in many ways, including assigning an issue to Copilot , entering a prompt in the Agents tab in your repository or mentioning @copilot in a pull request comment . …
… Happy coding! …
… How it works In MCP-enabled environments, your AI coding agent can run secret scanning based on your prompts and instructions. When you ask your AI coding agent to check for secrets, it invokes the secret scanning tools on the GitHub MCP Server. …