GitHub Copilot

Latest developments

Slack has a new channel type — but only agents can create one The New Stack · 1 month ago · 31

Red Agent Exploits Snowflake Vuln Missed by GitHub Copilot wiz.io · 1 month ago · 50 Introducing Agent Plugins vercel.com · 1 month ago · 16 Microsoft Open Sources code-testing-generator: a Polyglot Unit-Test Agent That Hits 92.1% Task Completion Versus 78.9% for Stock Copilot MarkTechPost · 1 month ago · 44

The blank-check AI coding era is dead. Here’s what comes next. The New Stack · 1 month ago · 8

August 2026

◆ Salesforce launches Slack Code, a new Slack channel type that lets coding agents execute requests and share outputs with teams in shared code channels Feature update

◆ Agent Plugins 1.0.0 open standard released with backing from OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, and other major AI platforms Open source release

◆ Major tech companies implement AI token spending controls and shift focus to efficiency over consumption Policy change

• 20 Aug Slack has a new channel type — but only agents can create one
• 18 Aug Red Agent Exploits Snowflake Vuln Missed by GitHub Copilot
• 7 Aug Introducing Agent Plugins
• 7 Aug Microsoft Open Sources code-testing-generator: a Polyglot Unit-Test Agent That Hits 92.1% Task Completion Versus 78.9% for Stock Copilot
• 6 Aug The blank-check AI coding era is dead. Here’s what comes next.

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• Microsoft deploys this tool · 1 source
• GitHub develops this tool · 1 source
• Slack integrated with this tool · 1 source