1.0.71

2026-07-16

• copilot -p --autopilot no longer hangs when a background shell or agent outlives the turn; it now honors the COPILOT_TASK_WAIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS timeout the same way plain -p does.
• Reopening the /subagents model picker keeps each agent's reasoning effort and context tier
• Refresh memory context after 30 minutes in long-lived sessions
• Keep MCP tool lists up to date when servers change
• Avoid leaving long-running background git processes after exit
• Add a configurable maximum for Ctrl+R command history
• On startup, an invalid settings.json now shows a warning identifying the offending value instead of silently ignoring your settings
• /terminal-setup no longer skips setup on terminals without real kitty keyboard support
• Add /voice devices to choose and persist the microphone for voice mode
• Limit which built-in agents are available to tasks and subagents
• Add canvas support in the CLI for extension-driven interactions
• Enforce the sandbox filesystem policy on LSP file reads and rename edits
• Allow empty owner and author emails in marketplace metadata
• Keep all MCP Server Type options visible on short terminals
• Mark disabled skills in copilot skill list and its JSON output
• Plan mode now hard-blocks built-in tool calls that would modify the workspace, so the agent can no longer edit files or run mutating shell commands while planning (built-in mutators like opening a pull request are blocked; MCP and external tools are still allowed)
• Improve /chronicle cost-tips recommendations with richer cost profiles
• Highlight standalone hex colors inline in Markdown
• Persist GitHub MCP toolset/tool config via settings.json (githubMcpToolsets, githubMcpTools, etc.)
• Add plugins marketplace subcommands to list, add, and remove plugin marketplaces
• Persist sidebar sessions across restarts
• Add plugins marketplace browse and update commands
• Split /worktree and /move: /worktree now creates a new worktree and leaves your uncommitted changes behind, while the new /move carries them into the new worktree
• Add local and cloud cost profiles to /chronicle cost-tips
• Switching to autopilot mid-turn now auto-answers questions asked during that same turn
• Custom agents that request a shell tool by alias now also receive the matching read, list, and stop shell tools
• Slash commands and their autocomplete now match regardless of case (e.g. /SESSION works like /session)
• Show repo-enabled plugins in /plugin list and skill pickers
• Press ? twice to dismiss quick help and start a prompt with a literal ?
• Shell completions suggest positional-argument choices
• Show the /app launch message and download link immediately on Linux
• Validate --max-autopilot-continues rejects NaN, negative, and fractional values
• Honor NO_COLOR in the CLI even when chalk cached a color level
• Apply updated session options (shell flags, streaming, custom agent defaults) immediately after /settings changes
• Announce the focused /model row for screen readers
• Announce the focused picker row to screen readers
• Show selected custom agents once in /agent and keep their source label when the file name differs from the display name
• Clear the /model pricing banner when no models match
• Keep /share file session and /share html session from using the full-session selector as an output path
• Honor --context in fresh interactive sessions
• Fixed the model picker changing a hidden model's reasoning effort or context window when the search matched no results, and hid the inert key hints shown in that empty state
• Display plugin root skills as /plugin instead of /plugin:plugin
• Keep valid hooks in a config file when one hook entry is malformed
• Denying write(path) now blocks only the specified path
• Using --add-github-mcp-tool "*" now enables all GitHub MCP tools
• Render empty untracked files without a phantom added line
• Show clean failure messages when copilot skill add fails
• Press Enter on a blank settings array item to show an error instead of saving an empty value
• Press Enter once to toggle booleans with a registered default in /settings
• Declining folder trust in /cwd keeps your live session open and returns to the previous folder
• Show a warning when a workspace MCP config is malformed or cannot be loaded
• Make bare copilot mcp and copilot skill print help and exit 0, matching copilot plugin. Consistent with plugin, the implicit help <subcommand> form is not supported for these groups; use copilot mcp <subcommand> --help (or copilot skill <subcommand> --help) instead.
• Show malformed allowed_models.txt policy errors cleanly in -p mode
• Resume synced sessions by name without a false multiple matches error
• Show an error when --name is used with --session-id for an existing session
• Show --plugin-dir plugins in copilot plugin list
• Keep backgrounded sessions alive when you switch away from them
• Link bare #number GitHub refs in -p --stream off output
• Show the startup banner only on the first launch when set to once
• Allow copilot update and /update to accept stable as a channel
• Surface --plugin-dir warnings in the terminal
• Surface the real load error for malformed custom agents
• Reject --continue when used with --resume
• Prompt mode now exits non-zero when a --share or --share-gist export fails
• Server mode reconnects OAuth MCP servers from cached tokens
• Keep stored Git credential helpers available for marketplace plugin installs
• The /model picker shows the Auto model description as markdown with a clickable Learn More link
• Keep sessions tied to their working directory across prompts, restarts, and workspace tools
• Always offer a custom answer in ask_user choice prompts
• Lower the default maximum sub-agent nesting depth from 6 to 4 to curb runaway recursive sub-agent delegation. Usage-based billing users can still adjust subagents.maxDepth (up to 128).
• Add a pinned prompts setting in /settings to control prompt pinning
• Add Repo and Repo (local) scope tabs to the /settings dashboard
• Interactive shell commands now fail with a retryable "reconfiguring" message instead of an "unknown shellManager handle" error after the shell manager is disposed, and a detached command's completion notification is no longer lost when the shell context is reconfigured while a read is in progress
• Reject custom-agent names that would create hidden files
• Reject malformed --allow-tool and --deny-tool patterns with an error message
• Show retained shell output in /tasks Shell Details for finished tasks
• Remove duplicate Error: prefixes from plugin command failures
• Shell completions stop suggesting subcommands as flag values
• Show singular message counts in /usage activity graph
• Keep /cd from switching to files or inaccessible directories
• Dismissing the quick-help overlay with ? no longer leaves a stray ? in the prompt
• --sandbox and --no-sandbox now show their "ignored" warning during interactive startup when the sandbox feature is unavailable (previously it was only visible in non-interactive mode)
• Show the full command with its arguments (not just the wrapper) in the /mcp server detail view
• Hide the inert navigate and view-log hints in the empty /lsp logs (LSP Services) panel
• Exit non-interactive prompt runs with a failure code when a prompt is blocked before responding
• Show the Auto discount in the redesigned inline model picker
• New sessions start in the default directory instead of the active session's cwd
• Fish completion only offers enum values for closed-choice flags
• Use targeted validation commands and lighter install guidance by default
• Use ctrl+x → x to close a session and ctrl+x → h to hide the split sidebar