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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/SSE, serverCommand for local stdio, or user-assigned serverName, with overridable for team customization. Policies fail closed: a malformed or unverifiable config is blocked, not allowed. When multiple policy layers apply, a server must satisfy all of them. Fail-closed as the default is the correct call and I'm glad it wasn't a flag.
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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...
43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1. Opus 4.8 scored 18.7%. That's not an incremental bump, that's the same benchmark with a different shape of answer. Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 24 at $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, exactly half of Fable 5's $10/$50, while matc...
The sunset notice is short and it doesn't hedge. Code freeze July 29. Repository archived August 10. Core team gone August 31. npm and Docker packages deprecated. Flowise has 55,186 stars and 24,850 forks under Apache-2.0, and the team wrote its own cause of death: developers...
July 9, across VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, github.com, GitHub Mobile, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse. Sol is the high-reasoning tier at $5/1M in, $30/1M out, gated to Pro+/Max/Business/Enterprise. Terra is the balanced default at $2.50/$15. Luna is fas...
GitHub shipped it July 28 across Pro through Enterprise, reachable from VS Code, Visual Studio, Copilot CLI, the cloud agent, JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse, with text and image inputs and low/medium/high reasoning effort, billed at provider list pricing rather than a fixed mul...
Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
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