winget install --id GitHub.CopilotAppAbout GitHub Copilot
The GitHub Copilot app is a desktop application purpose-built for agent-driven development. It gives you a single place to direct AI agents across parallel workstreams, work with GitHub issues and pull requests, and manage the full development lifecycle—without context-switching between terminals, IDEs, and browser tabs. The app is built on GitHub Copilot CLI and integrates natively with GitHub, so your repositories, branches, and CI pipelines work out of the box. It's designed for workflows where you want to run m...
What's new in 0.2.7
What's new in v0.2.7 Added - Added a "Pause all sessions" command palette action that suspends every running session at once, enabling clean restarts without triggering interrupted-session banners when resuming. - Added keyboard shortcuts for adding comments on plan text, with support for rebinding via the command palette. - Added OAuth Client ID field to the remote MCP server configuration form, and added Slack as a popular MCP server preset. - Canvas markdown editor now shows a floating formatting toolbar when text is selected, making inline formatting actions available right where you're working. - Emoji shortcode picker in the message composer: type : to search and insert GitHub emoji shortcodes (e.g. :rocket: → 🚀). Shortcodes are rendered as emoji while editing and preserved as :shortcode: in the exported markdown. - Git is bundled with the app under a staff-only experiment, paving the way for users to no longer need git installed on their system. - Health check view now shows a Database section with schema version, latest supported version, and database file path (with copy button) - Rich Markdown editors now support table editing with row and column insertion, deletion, and column alignment controls. - Sidebar workspace hover previews now show when a PR has auto-merge or agent merge enabled. Changed - GitHub Enterprise Server onboarding now uses the device-code authentication flow, matching the GitHub.com experience. - Improved markdown list editing in the rich composer: nested lists now render correctly, indent/outdent actions are available via toolbar buttons and T...
Version history
| Version | Updated | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2.7 | What's new in v0.2.7 Added - Added a "Pause all sessions" command palette action that suspends every running session at once, enabling clean restarts without triggering interrupted-session banners when resuming. - Added... | |
| 0.2.6 | Unknown | What's new in v0.2.6 Added - Added a "Share as secret gist" button to the assistant message hover toolbar, allowing you to save a reply as a secret gist with one click. On success, the gist URL is copied to your clipboar... |
| 0.2.5 | Unknown | What's new in v0.2.5 Added - Workflow schedules now support quarter-hour start times (e.g. 12:15 AM), giving more flexibility when configuring daily and weekly automations. Changed - Composer status pills are now hidden... |
| 0.2.4 | Unknown | What's new in v0.2.4 Added - Queued follow-up messages are now available by default during active sessions, allowing users to queue prompts while a response is in progress. - Skills now appear as slash commands in the Qu... |
| 0.2.2 | Unknown | What's new in v0.2.2 Added - Added a context menu to folder tree file rows with options to open the file in a new tab and copy its absolute path. - Added a folder tree for navigating workspace files, with stable toolbar... |