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Allison explains a GitHub Copilot cloud agent update that lets organization admins set and optionally lock the GitHub Actions runner used for agent tasks, making it easier to enforce consistent defaults and guardrails across repositories.

GitHub shares a short video featuring advocate Olivia Guzzardo’s meal planning app as inspiration for getting started with the GitHub Copilot SDK, which is now in public preview.

The Visual Studio Code Team summarizes what’s new in VS Code 1.115 (Insiders), including updates to Copilot-related agent sessions, terminal automation, and remote SSH connections for agent hosting.

Allison announces the deprecation of several GPT-5.1 Codex models across GitHub Copilot experiences and explains what Copilot users and Enterprise administrators should do to move to the suggested replacement models.

Shawn Henry announces Microsoft Agent Framework 1.0 for .NET and Python, highlighting production-ready APIs, multi-agent orchestration, Azure Foundry/Azure OpenAI integrations, and new capabilities like workflows, memory providers, MCP/A2A support, and tooling such as DevUI.

Microsoft Developer shares Matt Soucoup’s overview of how GitHub Copilot can help modernize legacy .NET apps by analyzing a project, proposing a plan, and generating task lists to move toward modern .NET.

Microsoft Developer shares Matt Soucoup’s walkthrough of using GitHub Copilot in VS Code to assess a .NET Framework project, generate a migration plan, and create structured tasks to upgrade to modern .NET.

Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot cloud agent: organization admins can now manage the agent firewall settings across all repositories, making it easier to apply consistent security defaults and guardrails at scale.

Allison announces that GitHub Copilot cloud agent now signs every commit it creates, so commits show as Verified and the agent can work in repositories that enforce “Require signed commits” branch protection rules.

ShivaniThadiyan outlines a shift-left approach to Azure infrastructure validation, using GitHub Copilot as an assistive layer to summarize Terraform plans, interpret drift signals, and help prioritize Azure Policy and Azure Resource Graph findings—without removing human approvals or governance.

Microsoft Developer shares an announcement for GitHub Copilot Dev Days, pointing developers to a Luma page to find or host a local event (including Chennai on 4/11).

Randy Pagels explains a simple GitHub Copilot workflow: before asking for an implementation, prompt Copilot to ask clarifying questions so you uncover assumptions, edge cases, and missing requirements early—leading to better prompts and better code changes.

Visual Studio Code hosts a VS Code Live session where Joel Norman and Jorge Balderas use GitHub Copilot Modernization in VS Code to try modernizing a legacy .NET application, with links to the official Modernize .NET resources and repo.

GitHub demonstrates how to use the GitHub Copilot SDK (Copilot CLI SDK) to turn a basic Node.js planning app into an AI-powered assistant that can generate and regenerate weekly meal plans and build weekend activity schedules.

Allison announces the public preview of the GitHub Copilot SDK, outlining how developers can embed Copilot’s agent runtime into apps and workflows with built-in tools like streaming, permissions, and OpenTelemetry, plus BYOK support.

Allison announces an update to GitHub Copilot usage metrics: organization reports now include per-user GitHub Copilot CLI activity, with 1-day and 28-day breakdowns for sessions, requests, token usage, and CLI version to support rollout and cost planning.

Visual Studio Code highlights key changes in VS Code v1.114 that improve the GitHub Copilot Chat experience, including preview videos in the chat image carousel, copying chat responses as markdown, troubleshooting chat issues, and updates to the #codebase command.

Allison summarizes the March 2026 update for GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026, focusing on new extensibility features like custom agents and agent skills, plus debugging, profiling, and dependency-vulnerability fixes that integrate directly into the IDE.

GitHub shows beginners how to use GitHub Copilot CLI to plan work, delegate coding to a background agent that produces a draft pull request, and then review the resulting changes from the terminal.

Allison announces the general availability of organization-level custom instructions for GitHub Copilot, explaining where the setting applies (Chat, code review, and cloud agent) and how admins can configure default instructions across all repositories.