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5 things shipped to GitHub Copilot recently 🧵
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5 things shipped to GitHub Copilot recently 🧵

5 things shipped to GitHub Copilot recently

@SlackHQ and @MicrosoftTeams now have GitHub Copilot integrations that allow you to collaborate on agentic work in real-time.

Mention @GitHub to plan changes, investigate problems, and hand off coding tasks from the conversations where your team coordinates work.

There’s now a Customize tab in the GitHub Copilot app that brings MCP servers, plugins, skills, and canvases together in one place.

Explore featured customizations, browse by type, and find new ways to tailor Copilot to how you work. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-25-github-copilot-app-customize-tab-is-generally-available/?utm_source=x-customize-tab&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=github-app-cli-Q1-push…

The latest models like

Gemini 3.7 Flash MAI-Code-1.1-Flash Kimi K3, an open-weight model hosted by @FireworksAI_HQ

are all generally available in the GitHub Copilot app, Copilot CLI, @code and more.

You can now manage multiple sessions from the Sessions sidebar in Copilot CLI.

Just click your left arrow to open the Sessions sidebar and use shortcuts to open new sessions (n), close current ones (x), and move between each with ease. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-07-github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-3/?utm_source=x-sessions&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=github-app-cli-Q1-push…

Dictate in multiple languages in @code.

It now uses a multilingual on-device model by default, keeping audio on your device. It can follow your configured language, use your system or browser locale, or automatically detect the language. https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-07-github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-3/?utm_source=x-dictation&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=github-app-cli-Q1-push…

Try them out and let us know what you think.

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