2026-08-06
Agent Plugins 1.0.0 ships as a vendor-neutral standard
Agent Plugins 1.0.0 was published on August 6, 2026 — an open specification for packaging Agent Skills and MCP servers as portable plugins. A plugin is a directory with a plugin.json manifest and fixed locations for its components, so one package loads across any compatible client. Vercel initiated the proposal; AWS, Anysphere, GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI refined it collaboratively. It is supported at launch in ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Kiro, and VS Code.
2026-07-21
Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available in GitHub Copilot
GitHub added Google's Gemini 3.6 Flash as a selectable model inside GitHub Copilot, alongside the existing model lineup, giving Copilot users a faster/cheaper option for everyday completions and chat.
2026-07-20
GitHub Code Quality reaches general availability
GitHub Code Quality, which combines CodeQL analysis with AI-assisted detection to flag issues directly in pull requests, is now generally available on Enterprise Cloud and Team plans. Pricing is $10 per active committer per month, plus metered charges for AI and CodeQL compute.
2026-07-20
GitHub adds AI credit pools for cost centers in the billing UI
GitHub's billing UI now supports allocating AI credit pools per cost center, alongside a related update letting Copilot users see AI credits consumed per billing cycle directly in the product.