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GitHub Copilot Weekly Updates Enhance Workflow and Context Management

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GitHub Copilot has released weekly updates across its desktop app, CLI, and VS Code integrations to improve user workflows. These changes enable better session management, offer more context-aware features, and streamline the review process for code and interfaces. The updates are available now and aim to help developers resume and organize work more efficiently without losing context. Notable enhancements include new commands for managing concurrent sessions and exploring parallel worktrees.

  • →Enhanced Copilot app session management and parallel questioning
  • →Copilot CLI introduces concurrent session management and experimental worktrees
  • →VS Code Copilot integrates element-level feedback and multilingual dictation
  • →Copilot in VS Code allows side questions and contextual queries
  • →GitHub Copilot app details model, credits, and cache
Features (4) ›
  • Enhanced Copilot app session management and parallel questioning

    Users can now jump directly into shared sessions or use '/sideto explore parallel questions without disrupting their main task in the GitHub Copilot app. Sessions also start and switch more efficiently.

  • Copilot CLI introduces concurrent session management and experimental worktrees

    The GitHub Copilot CLI now allows easy management of multiple concurrent sessions from a sidebar and introduces an experimental `/worktree` command to create isolated workspaces for separate conversations without disrupting current work.

  • VS Code Copilot integrates element-level feedback and multilingual dictation

    The VS Code integrated browser now supports element-level feedback, allowing users to attach comments to specific web page elements. Dictation also utilizes a multilingual on-device model by default, keeping audio local and supporting language detection.

  • Copilot in VS Code allows side questions and contextual queries

    New features in VS Code's Copilot allow users to ask side questions with `/btw` without interrupting the agent's current turn, sharing context and prompt cache. Users can also select text from a response to ask a contextual question.

Enhancements (4) ›
  • GitHub Copilot app details model, credits, and cache

    The GitHub Copilot app now displays which AI model handled each completed request, along with available AI credit and cache details. This helps users understand the underlying technology and resource usage for their interactions.

  • Updated Impeccable skill for mobile interfaces and design reviews

    The Impeccable skill in the GitHub Copilot app has been updated to apply to mobile interfaces, allowing for diagnosis of setup and more focused design reviews. This improves the utility of the skill for UI development.

  • Copilot CLI adds tool-call duration visibility and /rewind command

    Users can now see live tool-call durations in the timeline within the GitHub Copilot CLI to identify slow commands. Additionally, the `/rewind` command allows restoring conversations and files changed by Copilot without losing subsequent edits.

  • VS Code Copilot enables context review of Markdown changes

    Markdown diffs in VS Code can now open in an experimental hybrid Markdown editor, allowing the modified document to remain editable with gutter indicators for changes. Users can switch between text diff and hybrid views.

Read the original announcement →

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-07-github-copilot-weekly-releases-august-3

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