Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with New Experimental GitHub Copilot 'Agent Skills' in VS Code

Visual Studio Code 1.108 introduces Agent Skills for GitHub Copilot, enabling developers to define reusable, domain-specific ...
InfoWorld

GitHub Copilot rolls out agent mode in Visual Studio Code

GitHub has rolled out agent mode and MCP (Model Context Protocol) support in GitHub Copilot for all Visual Studio Code users. The company is also releasing an open source GitHub MCP server, allowing ...
TechCrunch

GitHub’s Copilot goes beyond code completion, adds a chat mode and more

GitHub is announcing its Copilot X initiative today, an extension of its work on its popular Copilot code completion tool, which originally launched into preview all the way back in 2021. With this, ...
ZDNet

Sure, GitHub's AI-assisted Copilot writes code for you, but is it legal or ethical?

GitHub Copilot, Microsoft's AI pair-programming service, has been out for less than a month now, but it's already wildly popular. In projects where it's enabled, GitHub states nearly 40% of code is ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On with Copilot Vision: VS Code's Head Start and How the IDE Is Catching Up

AI space! GitHub Copilot's vision and image-based features arrived first in VS Code in February 2025 and have since become ...
Bleeping Computer

Microsoft sued for open-source piracy through GitHub Copilot

Programmer and lawyer Matthew Butterick has sued Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI, alleging that GitHub's Copilot violates the terms of open-source licenses and infringes the rights of programmers.