From fd24cea5cb11da4e630485ff2d9269318b8c2a4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "github-actions[bot]" Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:54:36 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 1/3] Update changelog.md for version 1.0.71 --- changelog.md | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 93 insertions(+) diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md index adef233a..7c7ca0a8 100644 --- a/changelog.md +++ b/changelog.md @@ -1,3 +1,96 @@ +## 1.0.71 - 2026-07-16 + +- `copilot -p --autopilot` no longer hangs when a background shell or agent outlives the turn; it now honors the COPILOT_TASK_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS timeout the same way plain `-p` does. +- Reopening the /subagents model picker keeps each agent's reasoning effort and context tier +- Refresh memory context after 30 minutes in long-lived sessions +- Keep MCP tool lists up to date when servers change +- Avoid leaving long-running background git processes after exit +- Add a configurable maximum for Ctrl+R command history +- On startup, an invalid settings.json now shows a warning identifying the offending value instead of silently ignoring your settings +- /terminal-setup no longer skips setup on terminals without real kitty keyboard support +- Add /voice devices to choose and persist the microphone for voice mode +- Limit which built-in agents are available to tasks and subagents +- Add canvas support in the CLI for extension-driven interactions +- Enforce the sandbox filesystem policy on LSP file reads and rename edits +- Allow empty owner and author emails in marketplace metadata +- Keep all MCP Server Type options visible on short terminals +- Mark disabled skills in `copilot skill list` and its JSON output +- Plan mode now hard-blocks built-in tool calls that would modify the workspace, so the agent can no longer edit files or run mutating shell commands while planning (built-in mutators like opening a pull request are blocked; MCP and external tools are still allowed) +- Improve /chronicle cost-tips recommendations with richer cost profiles +- Highlight standalone hex colors inline in Markdown +- Persist GitHub MCP toolset/tool config via settings.json (githubMcpToolsets, githubMcpTools, etc.) +- Add `plugins marketplace` subcommands to list, add, and remove plugin marketplaces +- Persist sidebar sessions across restarts +- Add plugins marketplace browse and update commands +- Split /worktree and /move: /worktree now creates a new worktree and leaves your uncommitted changes behind, while the new /move carries them into the new worktree +- Add local and cloud cost profiles to /chronicle cost-tips +- Switching to autopilot mid-turn now auto-answers questions asked during that same turn +- Custom agents that request a shell tool by alias now also receive the matching read, list, and stop shell tools +- Slash commands and their autocomplete now match regardless of case (e.g. /SESSION works like /session) +- Show repo-enabled plugins in /plugin list and skill pickers +- Press ? twice to dismiss quick help and start a prompt with a literal ? +- Shell completions suggest positional-argument choices +- Show the /app launch message and download link immediately on Linux +- Validate --max-autopilot-continues rejects NaN, negative, and fractional values +- Honor NO_COLOR in the CLI even when chalk cached a color level +- Apply updated session options (shell flags, streaming, custom agent defaults) immediately after /settings changes +- Announce the focused /model row for screen readers +- Announce the focused picker row to screen readers +- Show selected custom agents once in /agent and keep their source label when the file name differs from the display name +- Clear the /model pricing banner when no models match +- Keep /share file session and /share html session from using the full-session selector as an output path +- Honor --context in fresh interactive sessions +- Fixed the model picker changing a hidden model's reasoning effort or context window when the search matched no results, and hid the inert key hints shown in that empty state +- Display plugin root skills as /plugin instead of /plugin:plugin +- Keep valid hooks in a config file when one hook entry is malformed +- Denying write(path) now blocks only the specified path +- Using --add-github-mcp-tool "\*" now enables all GitHub MCP tools +- Render empty untracked files without a phantom added line +- Show clean failure messages when copilot skill add fails +- Press Enter on a blank settings array item to show an error instead of saving an empty value +- Press Enter once to toggle booleans with a registered default in /settings +- Declining folder trust in /cwd keeps your live session open and returns to the previous folder +- Show a warning when a workspace MCP config is malformed or cannot be loaded +- Make bare `copilot mcp` and `copilot skill` print help and exit 0, matching `copilot plugin`. Consistent with `plugin`, the implicit `help ` form is not supported for these groups; use `copilot mcp --help` (or `copilot skill --help`) instead. +- Show malformed allowed_models.txt policy errors cleanly in -p mode +- Resume synced sessions by name without a false multiple matches error +- Show an error when --name is used with --session-id for an existing session +- Show --plugin-dir plugins in copilot plugin list +- Keep backgrounded sessions alive when you switch away from them +- Link bare #number GitHub refs in -p --stream off output +- Show the startup banner only on the first launch when set to once +- Allow `copilot update` and `/update` to accept `stable` as a channel +- Surface --plugin-dir warnings in the terminal +- Surface the real load error for malformed custom agents +- Reject --continue when used with --resume +- Prompt mode now exits non-zero when a `--share` or `--share-gist` export fails +- Server mode reconnects OAuth MCP servers from cached tokens +- Keep stored Git credential helpers available for marketplace plugin installs +- The /model picker shows the Auto model description as markdown with a clickable Learn More link +- Keep sessions tied to their working directory across prompts, restarts, and workspace tools +- Always offer a custom answer in ask_user choice prompts +- Lower the default maximum sub-agent nesting depth from 6 to 4 to curb runaway recursive sub-agent delegation. Usage-based billing users can still adjust `subagents.maxDepth` (up to 128). +- Add a pinned prompts setting in /settings to control prompt pinning +- Add Repo and Repo (local) scope tabs to the /settings dashboard +- Interactive shell commands now fail with a retryable "reconfiguring" message instead of an "unknown shellManager handle" error after the shell manager is disposed, and a detached command's completion notification is no longer lost when the shell context is reconfigured while a read is in progress +- Reject custom-agent names that would create hidden files +- Reject malformed --allow-tool and --deny-tool patterns with an error message +- Show retained shell output in /tasks Shell Details for finished tasks +- Remove duplicate Error: prefixes from plugin command failures +- Shell completions stop suggesting subcommands as flag values +- Show singular message counts in /usage activity graph +- Keep /cd from switching to files or inaccessible directories +- Dismissing the quick-help overlay with ? no longer leaves a stray ? in the prompt +- --sandbox and --no-sandbox now show their "ignored" warning during interactive startup when the sandbox feature is unavailable (previously it was only visible in non-interactive mode) +- Show the full command with its arguments (not just the wrapper) in the /mcp server detail view +- Hide the inert navigate and view-log hints in the empty /lsp logs (LSP Services) panel +- Exit non-interactive prompt runs with a failure code when a prompt is blocked before responding +- Show the Auto discount in the redesigned inline model picker +- New sessions start in the default directory instead of the active session's cwd +- Fish completion only offers enum values for closed-choice flags +- Use targeted validation commands and lighter install guidance by default +- Use ctrl+x → x to close a session and ctrl+x → h to hide the split sidebar + ## 1.0.70 - 2026-07-09 - Add GPT-5.6 model support From cb0467f0a59ed96dcfab71310294d5c69cce545a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "github-actions[bot]" Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:51:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Update changelog.md for version 1.0.72 --- changelog.md | 47 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 47 insertions(+) diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md index 7c7ca0a8..eb490bdf 100644 --- a/changelog.md +++ b/changelog.md @@ -1,3 +1,50 @@ +## 1.0.72 - 2026-07-20 + +- An `agentStop` hook that always blocks no longer loops indefinitely: the CLI now ends the turn after 8 consecutive blocks, and `agentStop` hooks receive a `stop_hook_active` flag so they can detect a forced continuation and self-limit +- Add opt-in git and gh authentication inside the OS sandbox +- Sandbox macOS keychain access now defaults off for tighter isolation; re-enable it in /sandbox if a command needs it +- Lifecycle and subagent hook commands run in the current session directory after /cd +- Deleting an MCP server with /mcp delete stops its running background process +- Toggling /sandbox restarts only local MCP servers and leaves remote servers connected +- Command approvals no longer carry over to another repository after you switch with /cd +- The GitHub tab's Open in web action now reliably launches your browser on Windows +- Preserve pasted prompt content when changing models through Ctrl+X /model +- Corrected the added-line count shown when creating a file so files ending in a trailing newline no longer report one extra line +- /worktree and /move no longer fail to create a worktree for an auto-generated branch name when many similarly-named branches or a leftover worktree directory already exist: the numeric-suffix search is no longer capped at 5 and now skips stale unregistered worktree directories (an explicitly supplied branch name still errors on a collision) +- /worktree no longer intermittently runs the kickoff task in the main repo instead of the new worktree +- /worktree and /move now propagate folder trust to the new worktree before switching when the source is already trusted (avoiding a spurious folder-trust prompt in that case), /move addresses its git stash precisely so a concurrent stash can't misplace changes, and worktree creation skips a leftover directory instead of failing +- Show the exit resume hint for a renamed session with no messages when its workspace is only available as a cached snapshot +- Show a connected message after a slow MCP server eventually connects +- Add `update`/`uninstall` verbs to `/plugins`, let `enable`/`disable`/`remove` target plugins, MCP servers, or skills via `--plugin`/`--mcp`/`--skill` flags or a positional kind, and support installing skills with `/plugins install --skill` +- Add a /plugins help command plus skill, MCP, and marketplace management for full /plugin parity +- Session exports keep angle brackets intact in inline code and top-level fenced code blocks +- Show MCP server status correctly for names like constructor and **proto** +- Keep the session highlight on the nearest live row when closing a session, in both the Sessions split view and the standalone Sessions tab +- Pad inline hex color swatches once inside Markdown lists +- Type $ at the prompt to open an interactive shell in the current session directory (enable it with `/settings shellShortcut on`; off by default) +- Nested markdown lists render correctly in buffered output (`-p --stream off` and detail screens): sub-bullets are no longer glued onto the parent item's line or flattened, and are indented under their parent +- `copilot skill list` now strips terminal control characters from skill names and descriptions, so a crafted skill can no longer inject ANSI escape sequences into the listing output. +- Install skills from the CLI with `copilot plugins install --skill ` (add `--scope project` to a file or URL install to install into the repository) +- Show default values in /settings and let booleans cycle back to default +- Require SSO for remote control when managed settings demand it +- Mask secret values in /settings show output +- Show hex color codes written as inline code (e.g. `#FF0000`) as color swatches, and add a renderHexColors setting (on by default) to toggle hex-color swatches +- Add /model --session (-s) to change the model, reasoning effort, or context window for just the current session, leaving global settings unchanged. +- Detect VS Code, Cursor, and Windsurf through parent processes in /terminal-setup +- The Sessions sidebar is now navigable with the keyboard and mouse (arrows open and focus it and move the selection, and Enter or a click switches to a session; press n to spawn a session or x twice to close one from the keyboard); /settings can disable it or stop restoring remembered sessions +- Add --plugin, --mcp, and --skill flags for plugin mutations +- Add skill removal support to `copilot plugins remove --skill` +- Wrap ask-user and elicitation inputs in the split-pane chat view +- Modified vim keys (Ctrl+K, uppercase J/K) no longer move the selection in tool-permission prompts and other text-input select menus; only unmodified j/k, the arrow keys, and Ctrl+P/Ctrl+N navigate. +- `/terminal-setup` now refuses to modify a VS Code keybindings.json that contains a JSON syntax error (instead of rewriting it and reporting success), matching its documented invalid-JSON handling. +- Reveal full file paths when expanding compact editing rows +- Make the plan-approval menu deterministic across models +- Keep /add-dir directories visible in the agent context across turns +- Multi-turn subagents are always enabled, so you can send follow-up messages to running agents +- Enable tool search for Claude Haiku 4.5+ +- Emoji shortcodes like :tada: no longer render with a spurious trailing space in printed and PR/issue/gist output +- Deliver scheduled prompts as steering messages when the agent is busy + ## 1.0.71 - 2026-07-16 - `copilot -p --autopilot` no longer hangs when a background shell or agent outlives the turn; it now honors the COPILOT_TASK_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS timeout the same way plain `-p` does. From 2b809c84e87dbcc88f897cb4f3fb97c43b77af95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "github-actions[bot]" Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:11:43 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Update changelog.md for version 1.0.73 --- changelog.md | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md index eb490bdf..9a8619a3 100644 --- a/changelog.md +++ b/changelog.md @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +## 1.0.73 - 2026-07-20 + +- Anthropic subagents continue working when additional directories are configured +- Resolve relative links in custom agent instructions from the agent file location + ## 1.0.72 - 2026-07-20 - An `agentStop` hook that always blocks no longer loops indefinitely: the CLI now ends the turn after 8 consecutive blocks, and `agentStop` hooks receive a `stop_hook_active` flag so they can detect a forced continuation and self-limit