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GitHub.com Features

Feature Release Stage Release Date Video Policy Toggle
Bing/Web Search GA Feb 14, 2025 Copilot can search the web
Block/Reference suggestions in public code GA September 30, 2024 TechRill - GitHub Copilot Code Referencing Suggestions matching public code (duplication detection filter)
Code review & Coding Guidelines* GA April 4, 2025 GitHub Copilot code review Copilot in GitHub.com
Code Review Customization via Instructions Preview June 13, 2025 Copilot in GitHub.com
Immersive Chat GA December 18, 2024 Copilot in GitHub.com
Instant Semantic Indexing GA May 12, 2025 Using your repository for RAG: Learnings from GitHub Copilot Chat N/A
Knowledge Bases * GA February 27, 2024 Say hello to GitHub Copilot Enterprise! N/A
Marketplace Extensions GA February 19, 2025 GitHub Copilot Extensions : Build Your First Extension Copilot Extensions
Metrics API GA October 30, 2024 GitHub Copilot Features - Metrics API Copilot Metrics API access
Model picker GA April 4, 2025 Configuring and Using Multiple AI Models with GitHub Copilot Access to alternative models
Model Playground Preview October 29, 2024 GitHub Models: Your AI exploration playground N/A
Organization-wide policy management GA December 7, 2022 N/A
Pull request summaries GA July 31, 2024 Copilot Pull Request Summaries Copilot in GitHub.com
Repository Custom instructions GA March 6, 2025 Using Custom Instructions with Copilot to enhance our prompts N/A
Organization Custom Instructions * GA April 17, 2025 N/A
Copilot Coding Agent Preview May 19, 2025 GitHub Copilot Coding Agent Overview Copilot coding agent access
Block Copilot coding agent in all enterprise repositories
Premium Requests GA June 18, 2025 Additional Copilot premium requests
Copilot Spaces Preview May 29, 2025 What is GitHub Copilot Spaces? Centralize your project’s context N/A
Content Exclusions GA November 12, 2024 GitHub Copilot Features - Content exclusions N/A
Audit logs GA September 7, 2023 N/A
Mobile GA May 7, 2024 Copilot features - videos - GitHub Mobile Copilot Chat in GitHub Mobile
GitHub CLI GA March 21, 2024 GitHub Copilot in the CLI Copilot in the CLI
Windows Terminal GA October 29, 2024 Windows Terminal now has GitHub Copilot!? Copilot in the CLI

IDE Features

Feature VS Code Visual Studio JetBrains Xcode Eclipse NeoVim Video
Agent mode GA GA Preview Preview Preview Use GitHub Copilot agent mode to create an application from scratch
Bring your own language model key Preview
Chat skills/participants GA Building your own GitHub Copilot chat participant in VS Code
Chat Context Variables GA More Context == Better GitHub Copilot Responses in Visual Studio
Copilot Chat GA GA GA GA GA GA Copilot Chat - Power User
Copilot Code Completion GA GA GA GA GA GA Rewriting your Java code with Copilot-based suggestions in VS Code
Copilot Edits GA GA GA The all NEW GitHub Copilot Experience
Document & Explain Code GA GA GA GA GA GA Using GitHub Copilot to write documentation for you!
Generate Unit Tests GA GA GA GA GA GA How to generate unit tests with GitHub Copilot: Tips and examples
Inline Chat GA GA GA GA GA GA
MCP servers in IDEs GA GA Preview Preview Preview Tug on Dev! - GitHub Copilot Agent Mode with MCP
Remote MCP Authentication in IDEs Preview The Download: Remote GitHub MCP Server
Prompt Files Experimental
Copilot App Modernization for Java Preview Java App Modernization Simplified with AI | BRK131
Copilot App Modernization for .NET Preview Using agentic AI to simplify .NET upgrades with GitHub Copilot | DEM549
Images in Chat Preview Preview Preview Preview Preview Preview Copilot Vision is HERE! Watch It Turn Images into Code!
Next Edit Suggestions GA GA Preview Preview Preview Preview Next Edit Suggestions for GitHub Copilot in action



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