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GitHub published two Copilot launch posts on 21 August 2026 and two docs pages to match. They disagree on which plans qualify, what a session costs and whether the extra merge approval is on by default.
Two AI code reviewers, two pricing models, one shared deadline. OpenAI retires GPT-5.4 from Codex on 31 August 2026 while GitHub's promotional credits end the same night, and the token economics move in opposite
GitHub gave enterprise owners a central MCP allowlist on 6 August 2026. VS Code removed the ChatAgentHostEnabled admin policy on 5 August. One week, one control gained and one lost - and GitHub's own docs say the new
GitHub's promotional AI credit allowance ends after 31 August 2026, cutting the pooled monthly allowance 37% for Copilot Business and 44% for Enterprise. Here is the arithmetic and the four defaults behind it.
GitHub shipped two Copilot cloud agent changes on 3 August 2026: a per-task reasoning level and automations that fire on issue or pull request comments. Both raise token spend, and GitHub's billing doc says nothing
GitHub's managed-settings.json went GA on 1 July 2026 with 5 keys. By 3 August it gained per-team overrides and a separate model policy preview. Here is the file layout, the merge rules, and where the reference
GitHub will remove six models from every Copilot surface on 1 September 2026. The suggested replacements cost more per token, and Enterprise admins have to enable them first. Here is the map.
Teams want AI coding agents without betting on one vendor. This 2026 guide shows the harness pattern across Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI and Copilot: what to standardize, the portability seams, and where costs
GitHub Copilot moved to usage-based AI Credits on June 1, 2026 and Cursor split its seats into usage pools. That reshapes the BYOK-versus-subscription math for every dev team. A worked cost model and a decision guide.
GitHub made the Copilot SDK generally available on June 2, 2026, across six languages. This guide covers what it does, how to call it, how it compares to building your own agent loop, and what it costs to run.
Since the April 2026 update, Copilot agents in Visual Studio automatically discover skills from six directories, three of which live inside the repository. Microsoft shipped a trust dialog for MCP servers in June. Agent
Microsoft's July 2026 study found adopters of Claude Code and Copilot CLI merged 24% more pull requests. The per-tool numbers, the dose-response curve and the paper's caveats matter more than the headline.
VS Code 1.129 moved agent sessions into a dedicated process on 15 July 2026. Sessions now outlive the window that started them, which makes chat.agentHost.enabled a platform decision, not a user one.
GitHub retires Gemini 2.5 Pro and Gemini 3 Flash across every Copilot surface on 31 July 2026, naming Gemini 3.1 Pro and Gemini 3.5 Flash as replacements. Here is the admin checklist.
Browser tools for GitHub Copilot in VS Code became generally available on 1 July 2026 and ship enabled by default. These are the settings, policies and rollout order that keep agent browsing contained.
The GitHub Copilot app went from technical preview to every Copilot plan on 7 July 2026, including Free and Education. The mechanism that makes parallel agents work is the git worktree.
GitHub Copilot now bills by GitHub AI Credits, not seats alone. A senior engineer's guide to credit pools, cost-center caps, per-user budgets and chargeback that holds at scale in 2026.
Cursor split Teams usage into two pools and added a $120 Premium seat for renewals from 1 July 2026. Premium buys 5x the included usage at 3x the cost, which makes its included usage 40% cheaper per unit. Here is
GitHub made Kimi K2.7 Code generally available in Copilot on 1 July 2026, the first open-weight model in the picker. It is the cheapest Versatile model on the price list, and Moonshot's own benchmark table puts it
