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GitHub Copilot changes and buying impact
Copilot is harder to dismiss as a cheap baseline-only choice now. For GitHub-heavy teams, the platform keeps its governance advantage while gaining a more credible extensibility story.
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Copilot is harder to dismiss as a cheap baseline-only choice now. For GitHub-heavy teams, the platform keeps its governance advantage while gaining a more credible extensibility story.
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Apr 2, 2026mediumfeature addedUpdate
GitHub Copilot expanded custom agents, agent skills, and agent-mode tooling in March and April 2026
GitHub moved custom agents into public preview and then followed with Visual Studio updates that added agent skills, custom instruction files, and stronger agent-mode tooling.
Buyer impact: Copilot is harder to dismiss as a cheap baseline-only choice now. For GitHub-heavy teams, the platform keeps its governance advantage while gaining a more credible extensibility story.
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