Releasesby GlyphCopilot usage metrics API adds agent app activity
Since agent apps arrived on GitHub, teams have been able to run agents from partners like Claude and Codex directly in their GitHub workflows. The Copilot usage metrics API now reports that activity, broken out by individual agent.
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DCM Projects (General availability)
DCM Projects are now generally available and are no longer in Preview . DCM Projects enable a declarative approach to managing Snowflake objects as code. You define the desired target state of your databases, tables, tasks, and other Snowflake objects in definition files, and Snowflake determines and applies the necessary changes to reach that state.
Snowflake Native Apps: Cortex Agents and MCP servers (General availability)
Cortex Agents and MCP servers in Snowflake Native Apps are now generally available. Providers can create the following objects in an app’s setup script: Apps can also use inter-app communication so that one app’s agent calls another app’s agent or MCP server.
Tag automations (Beta)
Tag automations are now in Beta . A tag automation assigns or removes governed tags on the Unity Catalog tables or volumes that match conditions you define, so tags stay accurate as your data and metadata change.
Change data feed on materialized views (Beta)
You can now read a change data feed from a materialized view created in a Lakeflow pipeline or in Databricks SQL, using Databricks Runtime 18 LTS or above. Use this to replicate materialized view changes to destinations outside Databricks, or to keep a history of materialized view changes for auditing and reporting.
ai_search function (Beta)
The ai_search() SQL function retrieves information from one or more AI Search indexes configured as knowledge sources. Given a natural-language query, the function generates optimized search queries, retrieves and deduplicates results across sources, reranks them by relevance, and returns the most relevant documents.
AlloyDB can sync BigQuery tables in preview
BigQuery tables can be synced into AlloyDB once or on a periodic schedule, giving operational analytics low-latency transactional access to data lake data.
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GitHub Copilot weekly releases , August 3
This week’s updates across GitHub Copilot in the desktop app, CLI, and VS Code help you resume and organize work, review changes, and ask questions without losing context. GitHub Copilot app Auto now shows which model handled each completed request, plus AI credit and cache details when they’re available.
Copilot impact dashboard adds a return on investment section
The Copilot impact dashboard now includes a “Potential return on investment” section that connects what you spend on Copilot to the pull request output you get back.
Copilot code review effort levels are generally available
Lite and Balanced effort levels for GitHub Copilot code review are now generally available. They let you match the depth of a review to the complexity and risk of a pull request. Not every pull request needs the same scrutiny.
GitHub Code Quality no longer adds Copilot as a reviewer
Enabling GitHub Code Quality on a repository no longer creates a ruleset that automatically requests a code review from GitHub Copilot on your pull requests. In repositories that already have that ruleset, we’ve turned off the settings we enabled.
MCP allowlists in enterprise managed settings
Enterprise owners can now centrally control which Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers GitHub Copilot clients are allowed to run by using the new allowedMcpServers and deniedMcpServers keys in enterprise managed settings. Approve the MCP servers your developers depend on and block untrusted or non-compliant ones across your enterprise.
Kimi K3 is now available in GitHub Copilot
Editor’s note (August 6, 2026): We have resumed rolling out Kimi K3 in GitHub Copilot. This model is billed at provider list pricing under usage-based billing. See GitHub Copilot’s pricing for models and requests for details. Editor’s note (August 6, 2026): We have temporarily paused the roll-out of Kimi K3 while we mitigate an incident with GitHub Actions.
Copilot on web expands conversation controls
We’ve made improvements to Copilot Chat on github.com that make it easier to use. These include easier access to your recent conversations in chat, the ability to minimize the chat window and return to an in-progress conversation, and indicators that help you track your Copilot token spend.
Retiring the Copilot Billing Preview app
We’ve retired the GitHub Copilot Billing Preview app, and it’s no longer available. You can review and manage your Copilot spend directly in your GitHub billing settings. The app helped you understand your bill during the move to usage-based billing.