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November (11)

github: enterprise: qualifier is now generally available in GitHub code search

GitHub

2025-11-05

GitHub code search now includes a new enterprise: qualifier (generally available) that lets you search across all organizations in your enterprise, simplifying searches that previously required manually combining multiple organizations.

github: Copilot coding agent supports organization custom instructions

GitHub

2025-11-05

GitHub announced that the Copilot coding agent — its asynchronous, autonomous background agent — now supports organization-level custom instructions to guide how Copilot understands and works with projects.

github: Copilot coding agent now supports pull request templates

GitHub

2025-11-05

GitHub’s Copilot coding agent, an autonomous background agent that creates and updates pull requests with a summary of its changes, now supports repository pull request templates so its generated PR bodies follow your repo’s template while still inserting the agent’s summary.

vscode: A Unified Experience for all Coding Agents

Visual Studio Code

2025-11-05

The article announces that coding agents have become central to VS Code in 2025, describing new agent mode, Copilot integration, and the GitHub Copilot CLI while noting the growing ecosystem of agents from providers like OpenAI and Anthropic.

github: Secret scanning detects Base64-encoded secrets and more — October 2025

GitHub

2025-11-04

GitHub announced October 2025 updates to its secret scanning service, including new detection for Base64-encoded secrets and other expanded support for additional secret types.

github: GitHub Copilot policy update for unconfigured policies

GitHub

2025-11-04

GitHub fixed an issue that sometimes caused organization-level Copilot policies to display incorrect options when the enterprise-level policy was set to “Unconfigured.” The change ensures organizations now see the correct Copilot policy options in that scenario.

github: Required review by specific teams now available in rulesets

GitHub

2025-11-04

GitHub now lets repository administrators require approvals from specific teams to merge changes into protected branches using rulesets. You can target these team-based approval requirements to particular files and folders, giving finer-grained control over who must sign off on changes.

github: Delegate AI controls management to members of your enterprise

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub now lets enterprise owners delegate management of AI and Copilot policies and setup administration to specific enterprise members and teams, without requiring broad enterprise ownership.

github: Manage budgets and track usage with new billing API updates

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub expanded its billing APIs to let organizations programmatically manage budgets, track usage, and retrieve cost center data so finance and engineering teams can automate cost controls and reporting.

github: GitHub Copilot policy now supports agent mode in the IDE

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub admins can now control access to Copilot’s agent mode in IDEs through the Copilot policies page on github.com. The change is intended to give organizations better governance over who can use agent mode in development environments.

github: Control AI spending with budget tracking for GitHub AI tools

GitHub

2025-11-03

GitHub announced budget-tracking controls for AI tools and the launch of two new premium request SKUs for the GitHub Copilot coding agent and GitHub Spark to help teams manage AI spending as usage grows.

October (1)

github: Deprecated models in GitHub Models

GitHub

2025-10-31

GitHub Models has deprecated several older models and asks users to transition to the suggested newer versions (for example, Mistral-Nemo users should move to Mistral-small-2503) to continue using improved models with enhanced features.