In celebration of MSFT’s fiftieth anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP help to all VS code customers. We’re additionally asserting the brand new GitHub Copilot Professional+ plan w/ premium requests, the final availability of fashions from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, subsequent edit ideas for code completions & the Copilot code overview agent. Enable
In celebration of MSFT’s fiftieth anniversary, we’re rolling out Agent Mode with MCP help to all VS code customers. We’re additionally asserting the brand new GitHub Copilot Professional+ plan w/ premium requests, the final availability of fashions from Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, subsequent edit ideas for code completions & the Copilot code overview agent.
Enable us to reintroduce ourselves: GitHub Copilot is getting an entire lot extra agentic with elevated context of your instruments and providers, powered by the world’s main fashions, beginning right now. 👏
We’re excited to roll out agent mode in Visible Studio Code to all customers, now full with MCP help that unlocks entry to any context or capabilities you need. What’s extra, we’re thrilled to launch a brand new open supply and native GitHub MCP server, providing you with the power so as to add GitHub performance to any LLM software that helps MCP. 🤖
In step with our dedication to supply multi-model alternative, we’re making Anthropic Claude 3.5, 3.7 Sonnet, 3.7 Sonnet Pondering, Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, and OpenAI o3-mini typically out there through premium requests, included in all paid Copilot tiers. These premium requests are along with limitless requests for agent mode, context-driven chat, and code completions that each one paid plans have when utilizing our base mannequin (👀 extra beneath). With the brand new Professional+ tier, particular person builders get probably the most out of the newest fashions with Copilot.
The agent awakening doesn’t cease there. We’re additionally asserting the final availability of the Copilot code overview agent, which in simply over a month in preview has been utilized by over 1 million builders on GitHub. Plus, the final availability of subsequent edit ideas so you may tab tab tab your technique to coding glory. 🏆
Agent mode in VS Code
Agent mode is progressively rolling out to VS Code customers in secure, as we intention for full availability to all customers within the coming weeks. You may also manually allow it now. In comparison with chat or multi-file edits, which let you suggest code adjustments throughout a number of information in your workspace, agent mode is basically able to taking motion to translate your concepts into code. With easy prompts, agent mode takes Copilot past answering a query, as an alternative finishing all essential subtasks throughout routinely recognized or generated information to make sure your main purpose is achieved. Agent mode can recommend terminal instructions or software calls and ask you to execute them. It additionally analyzes run-time errors with self-healing capabilities.
For the reason that launch to VS Code Insiders in February, builders have been utilizing agent mode for a wide range of duties: from autofixing code gen errors, to constructing webapps, to yeeting commits – no matter which means. 🙂
Agent mode is powered by your alternative of Claude 3.5 and three.7 Sonnet, Google Gemini 2.0 Flash, and OpenAI GPT-4o. Presently, agent mode achieves a go charge of 56.0% on SWE-bench Verified with Claude 3.7 Sonnet. We anticipate agent mode to develop extra succesful as chain of thought reasoning fashions proceed to advance.
To activate agent mode, improve to the newest VS Code and allow in settings.
Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP) is now out there in public preview
Builders spend their days conducting a wide selection of duties to get the job finished, from analysis, to navigating telemetry, to infrastructure administration, to coding and debugging. They usually use many instruments for this, the so-called engineering stack. MCP lets you equip agent mode with the context and capabilities it wants that will help you, like a USB port for intelligence. If you enter a chat immediate in agent mode inside VS Code, the mannequin can use totally different instruments to deal with duties like understanding database schema or querying the net. This setup permits for extra interactive and context-sensitive coding help.
For instance, with a immediate to “Replace my GitHub profile to incorporate the title of the PR that was assigned to me yesterday,” agent mode would take that request, mixed with the listing of all out there MCP instruments, and ask an LLM what to do subsequent. Over time, the agent would proceed calling instruments iteratively, till the duty is full.
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Already, GitHub is dwelling to an enormous and rising MCP ecosystem that you could uncover and use right now. Right here is a superb repository that acts as a neighborhood stock with a number of the greatest MCP servers to make use of. The GitHub native MCP server equips agent mode with compelling capabilities comparable to looking throughout repositories and code, managing points and creating PRs – turning agent mode into a robust consumer of the GitHub platform.
Get began by organising native and distant MCP servers and utilizing instruments with agent mode in Visible Studio Code. To get began with the GitHub native MCP server, go to the repository, now supported natively in VS Code.
Premium mannequin requests
Since GitHub Universe, we launched a variety of new fashions for chat, multi-file edits, and now agent mode. With the final availability of those fashions, we’re introducing a brand new premium request kind. Premium requests are along with the limitless requests for agent mode, context-driven chat, and code completions in all paid plans for our base mannequin (presently: OpenAI GPT-4o).
Clients with Copilot Professional will obtain 300 month-to-month premium requests, starting on Might 5, 2025. Clients with Copilot Enterprise and Copilot Enterprise will obtain 300 and 1000 month-to-month premium requests respectively, beginning between Might 12 and Might 19, 2025. Till then, use of those premium fashions is limitless.
We’re additionally introducing a brand new Professional+ plan for people with 1500 month-to-month premium requests and entry to the perfect fashions, like GPT-4.5, for $39 per thirty days.
Copilot paid customers1 can even have the power to pay-as-you-go for extra premium request utilization. People and organizations can select to opt-in to make use of extra requests past their included quantity, along with setting spending limits on requests to manage prices with ease. GitHub Copilot Enterprise and Enterprise directors can handle requests through their Copilot Admin Billing Settings. Extra premium requests begin at $0.04 per request.
Every premium mannequin will devour a particular variety of premium requests, permitting you to make use of a extra highly effective or environment friendly mannequin once you want it, all when you have continued, limitless entry to Copilot’s base mannequin.
You may be taught extra about how seat-based premium requests will work in our documentation
Completely happy fiftieth birthday, Microsoft!
Right this moment can also be a trademark second within the historical past of know-how: our mothership turns 50! From the creation of BASIC or MS-DOS, to the .NET Framework and VS Code, to the acquisition of GitHub – Microsoft has at all times been a developer firm at coronary heart. Half a century of dev love isn’t any small feat. ❤️
Now, with GitHub Copilot – what began out as a developer platform firm is a platform the place anybody is usually a developer. Collectively, GitHub and Microsoft totally intend on enabling a world with 1 billion builders. 🗺️
Get began with Copilot and check out agent mode right now