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30 articles covering "GitHub Copilot"
Apple, Google, JetBrains and GitHub document running other vendors' coding agents in Xcode, Android Studio, Air and GitHub; their pages differ on who lists the agents, which account is used and what usage and audit data they describe.
GitHub and JetBrains say Copilot can run in Air locally or in cloud sandboxes billed to Copilot plans, but Air does not track Copilot credits, show its usage or set spending limits.
Apple's Xcode 27.3 beta 1 release notes list GitHub Copilot in the coding assistant; GitHub calls it a public preview supporting all Copilot plans on macOS Tahoe 26.6 or later.
GitHub's October 28 changelog entries describe general availability for Agentic Workflows and Copilot Fusion, shared Copilot Automations, and a public preview of Copilot Projects.
GitHub's October 26 changelog says assisted permissions, which use a language model to judge permission requests, are generally available; its docs say the feature is not a substitute for sandboxing.
GitHub's Copilot usage metrics API gained a totals_by_client array on October 23 and named custom skills, agents and MCP servers on October 22, with caveats on undercounting.
GitHub's Copilot CLI changelog lists permissions.limitTo in 1.0.93 and a managed-policy option to disable Assisted Permissions in 1.0.94; GitHub's docs page does not describe either.
GitHub made Copilot local sandboxing generally available, added local Ollama model discovery to its CLI, and Microsoft detailed a 53GB on-device MAI Code 1.1 Flash.
GitHub put dynamic workflows in public preview across Copilot CLI, the Copilot app and the Copilot SDK, letting developers define in code when agents run and how results are used.
GitHub put computer use into public preview in Copilot CLI and the Copilot app on macOS and Windows; it is off by default and asks approval before controlling an app.
Visual Studio Code 1.140, released September 30, adds a Copilot harness on an agent host process, multi-folder sessions, remote delegation tools, HydraFusion model orchestration and a worktree symlink setting.
GitHub added an opt-in, OS-level sandbox to the Copilot desktop app that limits agent file, network, and credential access, failing closed if unsupported.