Computer use has arrived in GitHub Copilot!
Automate expenses, book travel, or speed up E2E testing.
Available in preview today:
github.blog/changelog/2026…
VS @code is bringing Copilot Canvases into the Agent experience.
The concept is similar to Canvases in the GitHub Copilot app: a shared interactive surface where both the human and the agent can work on the same artifact. Think dashboards, Kanban boards, plans, triage boards,
You need to be turning Agent Customizations into a package ecosystem. And that's what happeining in @code now with a new Marketplace UI poping under the customization modal.
But - the interesting part isn't the new Marketplace UI.
It's the fact that skills, plugins and MCP
Use this!!!!
This is hands on the superpower of @GitHubCopilot app that I think no other harness has yet to lock down
Gather context across repos or distribute work in parallel across repos - so many awesome use cases
Spawning child sessions in different projects that coordinate with the parent is by far the most powerful feature in the GitHub Copilot app. I tried doing similar workflows in Claude Code but it is just too limited on this front
We are going to start letting the agent decide where the work should run.
A new experimental feature in @code adds built-in tools for remote agent delegation.
Instead of me picking a remote machine, the agent can now:
- discover connected hosts, their OS, CPU, memory, models