GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 24

This week’s updates give you more control over how Copilot runs, from team sessions in Slack and Teams to customization across the app, CLI, and your IDE.

• Turn team conversations into shared agent sessions. Mention @GitHub to investigate problems, plan work, and make changes your team can follow and guide together.

• The Customize tab is now generally available, bringing MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases together in one place.
• Turn Azure DevOps issues and pull requests into Copilot sessions from the Customize tab.
• Work in your Linux environment with experimental support for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
• Split and move any tab to keep related work side by side.
• Send any browser preview straight to your external browser from the tab’s context menu.

Try the Copilot app.

• Start every new session with your preferred execution and permission modes using defaultMode and defaultPermissionMode.
• Manage plugins, MCP servers, and skills more easily with new experiences in /plugin, /mcp, and /skills.
• Pick up where you left off by restoring sessions that did not exit cleanly, including sessions interrupted mid-turn.
• Get significantly faster performance now that Copilot CLI runs on a native Rust runtime, while its terminal interface remains built in TypeScript.

Install the Copilot CLI.

• Apply consistent enterprise controls for Copilot in JetBrains, including plugins, MCP servers, telemetry, and agent permission modes.

• Continue recent Copilot or Claude agent sessions from other applications in VS Code.
• Get a second opinion from a complementary model to surface missed details and edge cases.
• Stay focused on your work with a new single-pane Agents layout, simpler session controls, and session details that are easier to find.
• See detailed chat usage by model for every chat turn.

Explore everything that’s new with VS Code 1.135 in the full release notes.

• Pin favorite models, hide unused ones, compare capabilities and costs, and adjust reasoning effort for each task.
• Share custom agents across your organization to standardize workflows and improve discovery.
• View Copilot plan consumption and manage premium model usage before reaching limits.
• Review uncommitted changes or individual commits with the Git agent before opening a pull request.

Install the latest version of Visual Studio with GitHub Copilot.