Releases: github/copilot-cli
Releases · github/copilot-cli
0.0.419-0
Pre-release 0.0.419-0
0.0.418
2026-02-25
🎉 Copilot CLI is now generally available 🎉
- Agent protected from accidentally killing itself
- Remove --disable-parallel-tools-execution flag and parallel_tool_execution config option
- Plugin agents specified as file paths in plugin.json load correctly
0.0.418-0
Fixed
- Agent protected from accidentally killing itself
- Plugin agents specified as file paths in plugin.json load correctly
Removed
- Remove --disable-parallel-tools-execution flag and parallel_tool_execution config option
0.0.417
2026-02-25
- Add /research command for deep research with exportable reports
- MCP servers no longer intermittently fail to load when opening a new session
- Plugin agents and skills are available immediately after install without restarting
- Plugin skills and commands load from custom paths declared in plugin.json
- Alt+backspace correctly registers as backspace instead of delete
0.0.416
2026-02-24
- Expand
--helpcontent with descriptions, examples, and sorted flags - Block third-party MCP servers when the Copilot MCP policy does not allow them
- Streaming response size counter updates continuously during tool calls and reasoning, and resets between requests
- Status line automatically switches to a two-line layout on narrow terminals, keeping CWD, branch, and model info readable at any terminal width
- Undo operations now always require confirmation
0.0.415
2026-02-23
- Skill files saved with a UTF-8 BOM (common on Windows editors) now load correctly instead of failing with a frontmatter parse error
- Custom agents support the
modelfield to specify which model to use, and unknown fields now warn instead of blocking agent load - Plan approval menu shows model-curated actions with a recommended option highlighted first, including autopilot+fleet for parallelizable work
- Env loading indicator no longer hangs indefinitely on MCP startup error or session resume
- Add show_file tool for presenting code and diffs to the user
- Add env loading indicator showing skills, MCPs, plugins, ... being loaded
- MCP tool results with giant single lines are truncated correctly
- /plugin marketplace add and /plugin install support local paths containing spaces
/mcp showgroups servers into User, Workspace, Plugins, and Built-in sections and makes all servers navigable- Agent now knows which model is powering it when asked
- Ctrl+A/E cycle through visual lines in wrapped input; Home/End navigate within a visual line; Ctrl+Home/End jump to text boundaries
0.0.415-1
Added
- Add show_file tool for presenting code and diffs to the user
- Add env loading indicator showing skills, MCPs, plugins, ... being loaded
Improved
/mcp showgroups servers into User, Workspace, Plugins, and Built-in sections and makes all servers navigable- Agent now knows which model is powering it when asked
- Ctrl+A/E cycle through visual lines in wrapped input; Home/End navigate within a visual line; Ctrl+Home/End jump to text boundaries
Fixed
- MCP tool results with giant single lines are truncated correctly
- /plugin marketplace add and /plugin install support local paths containing spaces
0.0.415-0
Added
- Add show_file tool for presenting code and diffs to the user
Improved
- Agent now knows which model is powering it when asked
Fixed
- /plugin marketplace add and /plugin install support local paths containing spaces
0.0.414
2026-02-21
- Explore agent can now use GitHub MCP tools when available
- Show permission elevation dialog when accepting a plan with autopilot to prevent auto-denied tool errors
0.0.413
2026-02-20
- Fix issue where Copilot API URL wasn't respected
- Display heading content from reasoning for gpt models
- Increase LSP request timeout from 30s to 90s to reduce timeout failures
- Fixed alt-screen timeline entries not updating when tool calls complete (particularly sub-agent calls)
- ctrl+insert can now be used to copy selected text in the alt-screen view
- Fix read_bash, write_bash, and stop_bash in-progress icon showing filled dot instead of empty circle
- Enable alt-screen mode by default when running with
--experimentalflag - Improve code search speed in large repos
- Session info renders in the main view footer in alt-screen mode
- Skill files with YAML array syntax for allowed-tools now load correctly
- Support remote plugin sources (GitHub repos and git URLs) in marketplace.json plugin entries
- Automatically migrate users from claude-sonnet-4.5 to the current default model on startup
- Ctrl+A, Ctrl+E, and Ctrl+U navigate to logical line boundaries (newlines) instead of visual wrap boundaries
- Add configurable status line support to display dynamic session information via custom shell scripts