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The Model Context Protocol releases its largest spec revision on July 28, 2026, transitioning to a stateless architecture that eliminates the initialize handshake and protocol-level session, enabling horizontal scaling behind plain load balancers. GitHub MCP Server already supports the new spec.
Bolt.new introduced Skills -- reusable bundles of context, rules, and workflows (tech stack, design standards, code review rules) that Bolt applies during development, shareable across individual projects or entire workspaces.
GitHub Copilot integrated Claude Opus 5 for Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise plans. Requires activation via admin policy and is billed based on actual usage.
GitHub Code Quality reached general availability on July 20, 2026 for GitHub Enterprise Cloud and Team. It combines CodeQL deterministic analysis with AI-assisted detection and Copilot Autofix for pull requests. Priced at $10 per active committer per month plus AI usage.
On July 23, 2026, GitHub made the Copilot cloud agent for Linear generally available, added next MCP spec support, and introduced agent automation controls in Issues: Approvals, Confidence Ratings, and Rationale.
GitHub Copilot launched an Impact Dashboard for enterprise admins: it visualizes not just who is active, but at what adoption phase they are — from first use to deep integration into a developer's daily workflow.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Business admins can now manage AI credit pools for cost centers directly in the billing UI without the REST API. The pool limit automatically adjusts as licenses are added or removed.
Gemini 3.6 Flash is rolling out in GitHub Copilot for Pro, Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users — offering higher task-completion rates and better token efficiency for coding and agentic workflows.
GitHub Copilot now shows per-user AI credits consumed per billing cycle and introduces AI-powered security detections directly on pull requests without requiring CodeQL. GitHub Code Quality moves to a paid product.
GitHub Copilot adds two new REST API endpoints for daily per-repository metrics covering agent pull requests and code review activity counts. First time Copilot metrics are available at repository level, not just org level.
As of July 17, 2026, GitHub Copilot app usage (github.com + web) is available through the enterprise metrics API — IT admins can now track adoption organization-wide across all Copilot surfaces.
GitHub Copilot code review now reads custom instructions from the feature branch (not base), so teams can test review rules without merging first. A new copilot-code-review.yml enables independent configuration from the cloud agent, including network firewall controls.
Notion Agents gained calendar tools: the AI can check schedules, reschedule meetings, send invites, and create scheduling links via natural language in Notion chat. Requires connecting a calendar under Settings.
GitHub Copilot added the /security-review slash command on July 14 in public preview — AI scans in-flight code changes for vulnerabilities like XSS, SQL injection, and path traversal. AI security detections also now appear directly on pull requests.
GitHub Copilot for JetBrains IDEs expanded BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) capabilities — developers can now connect their own API keys from any model provider, giving enterprises more control over data routing and costs.
CodeQL 2.26.0 adds a new query detecting prompt injection attacks in code — the first time it natively covers AI-specific vulnerabilities across OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google GenAI SDKs.
GitHub's Pull Requests Dashboard is now GA — a single view for all PRs across repositories including Copilot agent-created PRs, with saved custom views, advanced search with AND/OR operators, and keyboard navigation.
The June 2026 VS Code Copilot release (published July 8) brings parallel agent sessions in a single window, session-level credit cost tracking across subagents, more autonomous Autopilot, and a unified model provider picker.
GitHub expanded Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI to Business and Enterprise plans on July 7, making it the first open-weight model in the Copilot model picker — 1T total parameters, 32B active, hosted on Azure with admin controls.
GitHub made the Copilot agent-native desktop app available to all plans including Free on July 7, and rolled out GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna in Copilot for paid plans on July 9.
GitHub made agentic browser tools in GitHub Copilot generally available without experimental flags — an agent can now autonomously open a browser, navigate a running app, capture screenshots, and validate UI as part of a coding task.
GitHub Copilot agents in VS Code can now drive a real browser — navigating, clicking, typing, reading console output, and taking screenshots — enabled by default for all users as of July 1, 2026.
GitHub added AI credit pool support to enterprise cost centers on July 2, 2026, letting organizations cap monthly Copilot AI credits per cost center via REST API, with a UI management interface planned soon.
GitHub Copilot Enterprise now streams agent session data (prompts, responses, tool calls) to external SIEM tools including Microsoft Purview. A REST API provides the last 48 hours of activity on demand.
Notion released version 3.6 on July 1, 2026, introducing External Agents support (Claude and Cursor as the first two), native Excel and PowerPoint file handling for Notion AI, speaker labels in meeting notes, and expanded MCP connections with stronger admin controls.
GitHub Copilot Vision became generally available on July 1, 2026 for all Copilot plans including Free. Developers can attach images and PDFs directly to chat prompts so Copilot can reason about visual context alongside code.
Copilot CLI from July 1 automatically selects the best model per task (Auto mode, 10% discount). Enterprise customers now get real-time streaming of Copilot agent session data into external tools via a streaming endpoint or REST API.
GitHub Copilot added Kimi K2.7 Code from Moonshot AI as the first open-weight model in the model picker, rolling out to Pro, Pro+, and Max plans with Business and Enterprise expansion planned.
Copilot Agent is now available inside JetBrains AI Assistant, expanding agentic coding to millions of IntelliJ-based IDE users. Enterprise admins can now set per-user AI credit budgets for cost centers. Claude Sonnet 5 is also GA in Copilot.
GitHub Copilot now offers Claude Opus 4.8 in a new fast-mode preview that delivers significantly faster output token speeds while keeping the same intelligence as standard Opus. The variant is rolling out to Copilot users in preview, aimed at speeding up agentic and long-form coding tasks.
The desktop Copilot app can now connect your own API keys to OpenAI, Azure, Anthropic, Ollama or LM Studio. Keys are stored in the OS keychain and traffic routes through your own account or gateway.
The Copilot usage metrics API adds a new total_pull_requests_merged field in adoption phase reports. Enterprise admins now see daily merged PR counts by user adoption phase.
Microsoft on June 26 made MAI-Code-1-Flash, its fast 5B-parameter coding model, generally available for GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise plans.
GitHub Desktop 3.6 brings native Git worktree support and Copilot SDK-powered commit messages and merge conflict resolution.
Copilot Code Review switched to grep/rg/glob/view tools and now costs ~20% less. Admins can set default review depth for the whole org. CLI adds queueing and debug-logs.
Qwen-AgentWorld is the first model trained to predict the next environment state (not the next action) across seven agent domains. Two MoE sizes, 256K context, Apache 2.0.
GitHub Copilot added an enterprise admin setting strictKnownMarketplaces that locks extension/plugin installs to approved marketplaces. It applies to both VS Code and the Copilot CLI, closing a supply-chain attack vector via third-party extensions.
Copilot for Jira moves from public preview to GA, with streaming agent progress in Jira tickets, post-session steering that continues on the same draft PR, and simplified org/repo onboarding.
GitHub adjusted the model lineup for Copilot's Free and Student tiers, changing which models are reachable from those plans.
GitHub shipped GA of a new Copilot CLI TUI with tabs for Session, Gists, Issues, and PRs, inline MCP/skills/plugin commands, and screen reader detection.
GitHub Copilot in JetBrains IDEs now lets users pick Claude from the agent provider menu by pointing at a local Claude Code CLI install. The same release adds org/enterprise GitHub agents, queue-and-steer in Copilot CLI sessions, and an agent debug-logs summary view.
GitHub Mobile app gained the ability to fix pull request comments using the Copilot cloud agent directly on iOS/Android — no desktop editor required.
Notion AI added External Agents — Claude and Cursor are the first external AI agents available directly in Notion. Shared multi-agent workflows let teams automate end-to-end processes. Five new MCP connections were added including Mixpanel, Miro, and Box.
Microsoft's small coding model MAI-Code-1-Flash is rolling out across eight Copilot surfaces: CLI, Copilot app, Chat on GitHub, Visual Studio, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Xcode.
The Copilot usage metrics API now exposes an 'ai_credits_used' field with total AI credit consumption per user in both daily and 28-day reports at the enterprise and org levels.
GitHub announced the deprecation of the Opus 4.6 (fast) model in Copilot; users are advised to migrate to current Opus generations or to Microsoft's MAI-Code-1-Flash for fast tasks.
The native desktop home for agent-driven development hit GA on all three OSes. Voice conversations via on-device speech-to-text, integrated with session management and github.com.
