📣 Coming soon to GitHub Copilot: intelligent local model routing.
We are excited to announce the next step in our Project HydraFusion vision. GitHub Copilot will soon be able to automatically route tasks to a local model when it's most suitable, helping you save on AI credits.
⚡️ @AnthropicAI's Claude Haiku 5.5 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot.
➡️ It's a lightweight model designed for fast, high-volume work like subagents, quick edits, and terminal tasks.
➡️ Our early testing showed that it matched Claude Sonnet 5 on many coding tasks
Local sandboxing for GitHub Copilot is now generally available 🙌
This allows Copilot to run commands in an isolated environment with controlled access to files, networks, system capabilities, and credentials so you have more granular control. It also gives enterprise teams a
Git activity more than doubled between September 2025 and August 2026, reaching 473.3B events per month.
We’re rebuilding our Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development.
