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Under the hood: Security architecture of GitHub Agentic Workflows
…Agentic workflows already support the GitHub MCP server’s lockdown mode, and in the coming months, we’ll introduce additional safety controls that enforce policies across MCP servers based on visibility (public…
Changes to GitHub Copilot Individual plans
…We know these changes are disruptive, and we want to be clear about why we’re making them and how they will affect you. Agentic workflows have fundamentally changed Copilot’s compute…
Agent-driven development in Copilot Applied Science
…Make these agents easy to share and use Make it easy to author new agents Make coding agents the primary vehicle for contributions Bullets one and two are in GitHub’s lifeblood…
Bringing more transparency to GitHub’s status page
…That didn’t always reflect your experience, because many Copilot features, such as GitHub Copilot Chat and GitHub Copilot cloud agent (formerly coding agent) support multiple models. On those features, if one…
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Featured Why age assurance laws matter for developers Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers. How researchers…
From one-off prompts to workflows: How to use custom agents in GitHub Copilot CLI
…But a custom agent can apply your formatting rules, tooling, accessibility standards, review requirements, and safety requirements every time it runs. Custom agents are defined using agent profiles, or files that live…
How to scan for vulnerabilities with GitHub Security Lab’s open source AI-powered framework
…With them, we can write prompts to complete different tasks and have tasks that depend on each other. The seclab-taskflow-agent framework takes care of running the tasks sequentially and passing…
GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
…Agentic usage is becoming the default, and it brings significantly higher compute and inference demands. Today, a quick chat question and a multi-hour autonomous coding session can cost the user the…
GitHub availability report: April 2026
…The team identified the cause and restored connectivity to the database. Copilot Chat and Cloud Agent for github.com were restored by 18:16 UTC. Remaining regional deployments were restored incrementally, with…