GitHub's August 24 release week spreads Copilot changes across Slack and Teams sessions, the Copilot app, CLI, JetBrains, VS Code, and Visual Studio. This is a product surface changing continuously rather than one assistant feature receiving an occasional launch.
The updates include shared agent sessions from team conversations, a Customize area for plugins, MCP servers and skills, restored CLI sessions after interruptions, enterprise permission controls, model and reasoning-effort controls, and Git-agent review of local changes or commits before a pull request.
None of these additions alone defines a new category. Together they show the harness expanding around the coding task: collaboration, configuration, recovery, policy, model choice, usage visibility, and review are becoming part of the same weekly operating layer.