Copilot in Visual Studio gains org-wide custom agents and Git agent code review
The August update to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026 lets org and enterprise owners publish custom agents for use across their repositories, auto-detected in the agent picker with the org source shown. It adds Low/Medium/High reasoning-effort settings per model, and extends the Git agent to review uncommitted changes or commits before a PR is opened, with findings inline in Git Changes for both GitHub and Azure DevOps repos.
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FAQWhat did GitHub Copilot announce on AUG 28, 2026?
The August update to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2026 lets org and enterprise owners publish custom agents for use across their repositories, auto-detected in the agent picker with the org source shown. It adds Low/Medium/High reasoning-effort settings per model, and extends the Git agent to review uncommitted changes or commits before a PR is opened, with findings inline in Git Changes for both GitHub and Azure DevOps repos.
What is GitHub Copilot?
GitHub's pioneer coding assistant: completions, chat, and an agent mode that works through issues and opens pull requests. Now supports multiple frontier models.
Where is the official source for this announcement?
It was published by GitHub · Microsoft on AUG 28, 2026 via github.blog, the company's official channel. AgentMaps cites the primary source for every charted signal.