npm @github/copilot 1.0.89

3 hours ago

2026-09-28

  • Left-clicking supported ask_user and elicitation form inputs focuses them and places the cursor at the clicked position
  • Add support for Claude Code rule files in .claude/rules as custom instructions
  • Sessions in the sidebar show a blue dot when they finished a turn you have not opened yet
  • Auto suggests a routing tier and lets you switch with a shortcut or click
  • Auto shows a quick feedback prompt after switching away to a manually selected model
  • MCP pre-registered OAuth clients honor configured oauthScopes.
  • In local sessions, Esc Esc in an empty chat input takes back a prompt whose turn the model has not started answering and removes it from the conversation
  • Add GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna to the model picker when available
  • Adding support for claude-opus-5.5
  • Shell output no longer shows trailing command completion metadata.
  • Timeline output stops auto-following while text selection is active
  • server/tool and server/* tool filters now match MCP tool names that contain a slash
  • Queue exit commands while an agent response is still running
  • Extensions no longer fail to load under enterprise managed settings while managed MCP policy is still being applied
  • Fixed Git failures in applications launched from CLI shells when empty environment variables are dropped, on Git 2.36 or newer.
  • Sessions sidebar saves opened and closed tabs as they change, rather than only on exit
  • Agent shell commands in sandbox can access session files and logs
  • Fix Auto tier selection to cycle correctly in /model and remove the unsupported Fast profile; a previously stored, exported, or resumed Fast preference now falls back to Balance instead of routing on it
  • Run wrapped gh and git commands, such as timeout 60 gh ..., correctly in sandboxed sessions
  • ACP sessions stay connected when clients pause reading large responses
  • Gemini models no longer fail every request with 400 invalid request body when an MCP server exposes a tool whose schema puts a type or properties beside anyOf, such as a nullable discriminated union
  • GitHub MCP tools connect correctly on first CLI startup after sign-in
  • Ask-user forms keep custom Other answers separate across questions
  • MCP config loading keeps valid workspace servers when sibling entries are invalid
  • Delete old sessions succeeds when run directly in the CLI
  • Claude requests above attachment size limits now recover automatically before sending.
  • Listing shells shows running shells first, so a shell still running in the background is no longer hidden behind a long list of finished ones
  • View tool honors line ranges when providers send flattened view_range arguments
  • In local sessions, Up in an empty chat input recalls the pending message and leaves queued prompts in the queue
  • PR creation now follows repository pull request templates, preserving required sections and checklist structure.
  • Configure automatic indexed search activation with TGREP_FILE_COUNT_THRESHOLD
  • Direct plugin installs can now be enabled and disabled. One already recorded as disabled now stops loading; re-enable it with copilot plugin enable
  • Sandboxed commands on supported Windows versions can access localhost when Local network access is on
  • Autocomplete model IDs in /model and /model plan argument pickers
  • Show managed Connector consent progress with a copyable authorization URL during connect and reconnect.

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