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A filed VS Code issue (#313064) documents how the setting persists invisibly in git history and CI output after the user manually replaces the generated commit text. You can disable it via the "Git Add AI Co Author" setting, but the opt-out default raised legitimate concerns about attribution integrity. Check your recent commits if you updated VS Code this month.
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A single default flip. That's all it took to misattribute millions of commits worldwide. VS Code 1.118 changed git.addAICoAuthor from off to all, injecting a "Co-Authored-by: GitHub Copilot" trailer into every commit. Even if you'd never enabled Copilot. Even if you'd explicit...
A spec is a press release until someone who didn't write it implements it. GitHub made Agent Plugins 1.0 generally available on August 12 across VS Code, Copilot CLI, the Copilot SDK, and the Copilot app on all plans. The spec, published August 6, was co-authored by AWS, Anysp...
Roo Code announced it will archive its VS Code extension repo on May 15 and merge back into Cline, the project it originally forked from. CEO Matt Rubens said the team needs to "constantly destroy and recreate to keep up with what's newly possible." Translation: the extension...
Shipped August 12 on the Agent Host Protocol: the same agent session attaches from multiple VS Code windows, and the model picker exposes both Anthropic and Copilot options, switchable between turns and billed to the respective service. An experimental chat.agentHost.allowSign...
Enterprise-managed MCP allowlists shipped August 6 across the Copilot app, Copilot CLI and VS Code, configured with allowedMcpServers and deniedMcpServers in copilot/managed-settings.json inside the org's .github-private repo. Match by serverUrl with wildcards for remote HTTP/...
The July 30 changelog closed the hosted model-catalog and playground service that let developers prototype against multiple LLMs from GitHub directly. If you prototyped against Models endpoints, this is a migration event, not a skim. The surrounding changelog items (Copilot up...
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